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“Vladimir Nabokov, in his Lectures on Literature (1980), saw it all: Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “wolf, wolf” and there was no wolf behind him.”
― Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
― Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
“We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.”
― Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
― Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Science Curious Book Club (Bay Area)
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A social book club for curious and inquisitive readers. We focus on science-minded topics, from hard science to pop science non-fiction, as well as ph ...more
Chris’s 2024 Year in Books
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