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The Knights Templar Revealed by Alan Butler & Stephen Dafoe
A general introduction to the great books and to a liberal education by Mortimer Jerome Adler
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About meHere's a fifty-something, mildly introverted, autodidact. I don't mind being a self-educated fool; it's rather liberating, actually, and vastly preferable to being a formally-educated one. Actually, I do have degrees in philosophy and humanities, but earn bread as an electrical engineer. Go figure! I do a bit of Zen meditation, walking, gaming, and of course... reading. My highest aspiration is to become nobody (which, if I suppose if I took completely seriously, I wouldn't have written any of this horn-honking stuff). Ah well. It is a process...
About my libraryThese are the books I physically and currently own. So many more have passed through my hands, now absent. Anyway, ten or fifteen years ago, I closed off one corner of the basement and built a study. It's the quietest room in the house. The dogs and I go there to hang out, blog, play online, and read. I built a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf into one whole wall - a modest library by most standards - but once again it's about full. Stacks are appearing now. I like having books where I can see them versus packed away in boxes or closets. It's hard maintaining a minimalist thing when books are laying everywhere.
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posted by slickdpdx at 8:54 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2009
Meanwhile, I'm feeling a bit the same way about Gravity's Rainbow into which I'm wading right now. I almost reshelve it, and then he writes something so breathtaking that I'm back in. I must say that I don't mind Rabelais or Pynchon writing lists. I do resent them in current fiction where they seem to be inserted as an excuse for not doing real writing.
----anyway, my hat's off to you!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 12:14 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2009
Sir! Kindly refrain from referring facetiously to my alma mater!
Very enjoyable review.
Cheers
RMD
posted by richardderus at 10:10 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2009