Recently, I’ve been reading a bit more than usual. Two days ago I finished Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream. It was billed as a romance novel, which I only roughly agree with; was one of two of his novels to be made into a movie, and was published posthumously. It was pretty good, but a […]
I went to Vienna this past Friday through Sunday, and it was great. I traveled with Dora and Patrick from Budapest by bus (just 3 hours!) and met Aaron there. We had planned to meet Dr. Guttmann, one of our professors, but he fell ill and found a proxy, Dr. Fleck. Dr. Fleck showed us […]
You are an atheist, a rationalist, a believer in the triumph of science and of reason over libido. You can’t stand mumbo jumbo, ritual, spiritual nonsense of any kind, and you refuse to allow for these longings in others.
Astrologers, Scientologists and new–age crystal ball creeps are no different in your view from priests, rabbis and […]
I was in Prague this weekend, and it was excellent. We (Patrick and I) arrived Saturday morning at 6:15am and walked around without a map in the cold until 10am, when we met Aaron. He showed us the main historical attractions (many of which we had previously seen but had not been aware of their […]
I just finished Checkmate, the final book in the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett. I must say, after quite a few unexpected reversals and twists, it ended quite satisfactorily. I feel like the whole series does provide insight into the period (mid-1500s). The events surrounding the fictional main character are factual, and the plot itself […]