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Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
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Michael C. Perkins
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Timothy Snyder, Proust, Cervantes, Dickens, Orwell, Huxley, Twain, Art
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Internet Bubble, The
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The Archimedes Device
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Surviving Paradise
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KidWare: The Parent's Guide to Software for Children
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Kidware: Parent's Guide to Software for Children by M. Perkins (1994-10-06)
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Doctors are Demoralized by Our Health System
Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly associated with terminal illness that’s characterized by a sense of helplessness and loss of purpose. American physicians are now increasingly suffering from a similar condition, except our demoralization is not a reaction to a medical condition, but rather to the diseased systems for whic
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I'm finally back. I had a fall and was in the hospital for awhile, then in rehab.
I've worked hard to get strong again. I use the pool twice a week and walk the Berkeley hills every day.
During that time, I lost two good friends on GR, one who went b ...more "
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I'm finally back. I had a fall and was in the hospital for awhile, then in rehab. I've worked hard to get strong again. I use the pool twice a week and walk the Berkeley hills every day. During that time, I lost two good friends on GR, one who went b ...more |
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“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens. In our dealings with Jane Austen we had to make a certain effort to join the ladies in the drawing room. In the case of Dickens we remain at table with our tawny port. With Dickens we expand. It seems to me that Jane Austen's fiction had been a charming re-arrangement of old-fashioned values. In the case of Dickens, the values are new. Modern authors still get drunk on his vintage. Here, there is no problem of approach as with Austen, no courtship, no dallying. We just surrender ourselves to Dickens' voice--that is all. If it were possible I would like to devote fifty minutes of every class meeting to mute meditation, concentration, and admiration of Dickens. However my job is to direct and rationalize those meditations, that admiration. All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic de
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“In our society, we no longer pride ourselves on being educated, knowledgable, well-read. We prefer, instead, the illusion of erudition.”
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| WACKY READING CHA...: October 2017 Mini Challenge | 86 | 63 | Dec 23, 2017 03:02PM | |
| 2025 Reading Chal...: Joy's 52 in 2017 | 115 | 154 | Dec 30, 2017 03:06PM |
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts.”
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“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
In 1984, Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us".”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In 1984, Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us".”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Anna wrote: "Thank you for the invite Michael. Your review av Insatiability pushed it from residing on my shelves for far too long, to the very top of my reading list!"great!
Thank you for the invite Michael. Your review av Insatiability pushed it from residing on my shelves for far too long, to the very top of my reading list!
