watch more French cinema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbAohexT0Ho
Harry On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> quoted some good and bad ideas: > > >> On your own, avoid homogenous books, films, music, food, sex, media and >> people. >> > What does non-homogenous sex mean? With other people? My wife would object. > > I do not see what music or food has to do with being open to ideas. Arthur > Clarke reportedly ate a typical British meat and potatoes diet his whole > life, but he was broad minded about other things. I also know what I like > and I like what I know, as the Brits say. I listen mainly to classical > music. Most popular music sounds like abominable noise to me. Japanese > popular music, being broadcast at this moment in the annual Kohaku Uta > Gassen, is saccharine glop. > > New & unusually people -- *that* I agree with. I don't actually like > real, living people, because they are boring. I prefer dead people. In > books. People lived hundreds of years ago in different countries give a > whole new perspective. > > > >> Actually experience life by going to places you don’t usually go, >> spending time with people you don’t usually spend time with. >> > I get lost when I try to go to places I don't usually go. I show up at the > airport the day after the flight. As I said, spending time with people who > lived hundreds of years ago in Japan, Italy or Boston is an eye-opener. > > As Logan P. Smith put it, "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer > reading." > > - Jed > >
