Failed. Repeat.
On Jul 13, 2012 10:19 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
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From: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:56:10 +0200
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On Jul 18, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Strange-Neuroscience-of/132819/
July 16, 2012
The Strange Neuroscience of Immortality
By Evan R. Goldstein
Cambridge, Mass.
The Strange Neuroscience of Immortality 2
Illustrations by Harry
1 - Kipling may have been racist, imperialist, sometimes just
bloody-minded, often pretentious - but he's one of the best story-tellers
I've ever come across. And I rate Kim as one of the best stories I've
read (if you narrow the focus to road novel, it's right up there).
2 - Tolkien's racism is
Old RDs? I want! (My oldest issue is from 1948, but the bulk are from the
late 60s and early 70s)
Wodehouse wrote about how he feared the RD because another Most
Unforgettable Character Somebody Ever Met might jump out at him. They had
a mind-set stuck in the regressive '40s, but they were usually
Throw out the rest of the RD - just keep the I am john's / jane's
[whatever] and the book section. Superb stuff, Cornelius Ryan's The
Longest Day, Betty Smith's A tree grows in brooklyn etc.
Especially throw out the stale old jokes in Laughter, the best medicine.
From:
Oh, I have about a dozen of the Condensed Books collections. Some of the
stuff I loved e.g. Betty MacDonald's Onions in the Stew, is not even
traceable on the Net now.
On 19 July 2012 09:30, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Throw out the rest of the RD – just keep the “I am
OCR them!
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Alfred Prufrock
Sent: 19 July 2012 10:06
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Subject: Re: [silk] Old Readers Digest
Oh, I have about a dozen of the
