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Member: jahn

Library1,739 books — see library

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TagsNautica (594), Art (276), Philosophy (118), Cartoons (95), Boxing (86), Sea life (69), Marine art (56), Biography (47), Seamanship (45), Photography (37) — see all tags

GroupsBoats and Sailing, Cartoons, Economics, Philosophy and Theory

About me I strongly suspect that in a healthy mind interest and intellect are inseparable, as on birth, and before acts are given relevance outside any inherent efficacy - as proofs of obedience. Which means: I take my individualism and anti-authoritarianism quite seriously:)

About my library I've saved a number of books through the years, which means my library does not exactly reflect my current interests. Chronologically the theme list goes something like this: flying, boxing, cartooning, modern literature, philosophy, sailing ships. Still, since some wastage occurs, particularly when changing addresses, the present library is largely nautical and my youthful infatuation with aeroplanes nearly unrepresented.
The philosophy I've read was mostly books borrowed from the state; the philosophy posted here does mostly represent a buying spree in Paris one single Francophile summer day in the early eighties. The fiction I've read was mostly in paperback, and therefore easy to give away or leave behind (The holes, I now note, accords with the personalities of people I've known).

Searching for authors that could reasonably be called favourites (I'm unable to put this into the correct slot), I find a pair in De Quincey, whose text can be read again even if you remember the content well, and Heraclitus, the content of whose text can be reconsidered even if you remember the text well.

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Member sinceDec 2, 2007