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Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: rv_bass on February 03, 2023, 04:16:41 AM
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“Don’t believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.” - Lou Reed
https://news.mit.edu/2023/vertical-stacked-color-microscopic-leds-0201 (https://news.mit.edu/2023/vertical-stacked-color-microscopic-leds-0201)
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“Don’t believe Lou Reed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Bill, tgo
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Not sure I follow you on that one, Bill
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I rather enjoyed that little quip.
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Not sure I follow you on that one, Bill
The quote is not Lou Reed’s. It’s from Poe’s short story: The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether.
Bill, tgo
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Not sure I follow you on that one, Bill
The quote is not Lou Reed’s. It’s from Poe’s short story: The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether.
Bill, tgo
That’s great, I did not realize that, and I shall read it tonight, thanks! :)
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A great read as well…
https://poestories.com/read/systemoftarr
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Stevie Nicks read Poe, voraciously. Which kinda' explains a few things.
I never could dig it... just too dark. I tried to like Dickens, and did a little. I still refer to a few people I know as certain Dickens characters. Our IT guy at work for instance, that's Mister Fezziwig. There are others. Sometimes in a contentious meeting, I'll say something like; "please sir, may I have some more?" to break the tension. Or at least get me excused from the meeting.
I've always been a James Thurber type. Which also explains a lot.
*the article in the original post is fascinating. I'm sending it to someone else now. (who in turn, will claim to have already seen it, and wonder what what took meeeee so long) ::)
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While I do have, and have enjoyed several times over the decades, a collection of essays by Thurber, I also have a The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe; he was my favorite writer until I discovered Vonnegut.
Peter (who would also recommend Christopher Moore, Tim Dorsey, and Sir Terry Pratchett)
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I am just now reading Steppinwolf for the first time. Not at all what I expected, but it really makes me think in my senior years.
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I am just now reading Steppinwolf for the first time. Not at all what I expected, but it really makes me think in my senior years.
It's 50 years or so since I read that one; I recall it being pretty good. Maybe I should revisit it.
Peter
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My favorite when I got into Hesse in High School was Demian. Lately, I’ve been thinking of revisiting it 50 years later. Other early favorites were D.H. Lawrence and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Later, the same dudes as mentioned by Peter. For multiple series, my all time favorites are the wonderful Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser - GREAT historical fiction with a comic twist - and the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald (gotta love the MacDonalds!). These days I grab everything as it gets released by Michael Connelly (Lincoln Lawyer, Harry Bosch) and John Lescroart (Dismas Hardy and friends).
Bill, tgo
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That's a big 10-4 on Flashman! As an historian with a twisted streak, I found those books an absolute delight. Bill, I just picked up a new Connelly (having read everything velse he wrote) a week or 2 ago, but haven't gotten to it yet. Next time I'm upstairs I'll check the title.
Peter
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The new Connelly is Desert Star; a Harry Bosch/Renee Ballard novel.
Peter
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Finished it last week. Up to Connelly’s usual high standards.
Bill, tgo
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I read Steppenwolf recently and kinda hated it...read it as a classic and was one of those books where I won't get that time back...
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Excellent; but now I have hurry & finish the Lescroart book I'm in now and another library book read & returned so I can start it.
Peter (who will pass on to one & all Bill's recommendation to me of the above-referenced John Lescroart, whose work is tailor-made for my habit of reading an author's whole catalog in chronological order)
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“LED” = “Literature Experiences Discussion”
Who knew?
Bill, tgo
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“LED” = “Literature Experiences Discussion”
Who knew?
Bill, tgo
A virtual reality :)
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And for the other end of the spectrum I am also reading 'Stranger from the Tonto' by Zane Gray. It's about the Hole in the Wall Gang. I must have owned this book for 50 years now and am re-reading it. I like it. I am also surprised at how well it's written. It also has a considerable number of big multi-syllable words that must have stretched many a young vocabulary.
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My hometown is 15 miles from Zane Gray's (Zanesville, OH; both it & he named after Ebeneezer Zane), but I don't recall ever reading one of his books. I guess I should.
Peter