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  1. Peder

    May 2014: Edmund Cooper: All Fools Day

    According to Amazon, it looks like the book was published in 1981 and now commands a hefty price. A reviewer there mentions a "retro British sci-fi feel" to it. Maybe so, and maybe it was precursor to many post-apocalyptic scenes and stories to follow. Which might explain why, by now, it felt...
  2. Peder

    Fascinating scientific stuff

    Magnetic mapping Technologist though I claim to be, some things still knock my socks off: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/mapping-our-interiors/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_th_20140519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=28874140&_r=0 Sorry for no pic; you'll have to click the article to see...
  3. Peder

    Club Sandwich - a poem

    Many many thanks, Poppy. /doing handsprings/ :D
  4. Peder

    Any Biography Read Ideas?

    Don't know of a specific book collection, short of an encyclopedia of biography. Browsing the reference shelves of a real library in the Biography section might produce what you are looking for. For myself, Google, Wikipedia, and Amazon do the trick for whatever I am looking for. A search for...
  5. Peder

    Do we learn from history?

    Hah! Good one -- the new generation being the despair of the old. That seems to have been the case back to at least Roman times. Some things really do not seem to change.
  6. Peder

    Do we learn from history?

    Dredging now from deep memory, I can recall twice reading/hearing the thought that the reason we seem not to learn from history is that: each time the supposed same problem occurs, it is in reality different. I believe Sir Liddell-Hart --mentioned above, I think -- wrote that "Every war is...
  7. Peder

    Hew Strachan: The First World War

    HI Sparky, That was a nice review. Especially your inclusion of that first quote about Vienna and Berlin. I have more and more become interested in how wars begin, rather than how they are fought. Especially after Germany suffering so disastrously in two wars in which they were at the focus.
  8. Peder

    SFG's Coffeehouse....a curmudgeonly caffeinated library & cantankerous free for all

    Why? "Same" and "different" are very relative terms, it seems to me. The human organism, beginning with each of its five senses, is capable of sensing very small differences and making very fine distinctions, and it might easily be argued that in the distant past such abilities were required...
  9. Peder

    Peder's Pond

    I came across this poem recently. I can think of few that compare for both dazzling wordsmanship and meaningful content. "EASTER HYMN If in that Syrian garden, ages slain, You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain, Nor even in dreams behold how dark and bright Ascends in smoke and fire by...
  10. Peder

    SFG's Coffeehouse....a curmudgeonly caffeinated library & cantankerous free for all

    And that sounds like a good example to me! :D Live and let live, is how I tend to view it. Although many people claim to follow the Golden Rule, even that doesn't seem to hack it in the modern world. :(
  11. Peder

    Club Sandwich - a poem

    Club Sandwich The blank sheet is still blank Under the ink upon its surface In ascenders, descenders, loops And whorls forming letters Held in place through forces Of adjacency into words of meaning Connecting transparently into ribbons Unfurling invisibly to wrap anew Ideas emotions insights...
  12. Peder

    SFG's Coffeehouse....a curmudgeonly caffeinated library & cantankerous free for all

    It might correspond quite closely with the way some people try to harmonize their own understanding of their beliefs with their own experience of the real world, i.e. with some bedrock principles and then adjustments as necessary? That wouldn't strike me as so unreasonable.
  13. Peder

    SFG's Coffeehouse....a curmudgeonly caffeinated library & cantankerous free for all

    Actually, you are right; I can't find the sentence I had in mind. So, I can only say my memory must have played a trick on me. But that is no excuse. So I apologize sincerely for reading the word "hate" where it did not appear, I am sincerely sorry for that. Perhaps it was while reading...
  14. Peder

    SFG's Coffeehouse....a curmudgeonly caffeinated library & cantankerous free for all

    Well you sure could have fooled me! With your use of words like Hate, Catholic Evangelical preacher and a catholic church (or was it the movement?) "built on" Jesus' teachings with respect to the poor. (I thought it was Peter, the Rock.) The level of hostility that you introduced in your...
  15. Peder

    SFG's Coffeehouse....a curmudgeonly caffeinated library & cantankerous free for all

    Hi Bob, Up my way, in northern liberal land, evangelical is a code word in political discussions -- along with "right wing" far right wing" and others and a rather disprespectful one among people I know who use it. Most mean Republican Christian. If your issue is with preachers (or people in...
  16. Peder

    SFG's Coffeehouse....a curmudgeonly caffeinated library & cantankerous free for all

    I would go slow on identifying the Catholic church as typical of Jesus' teachings, and rich evangelical preachers as typical of Protestantism.
  17. Peder

    Do we learn from history?

    Nooooooo comment.
  18. Peder

    SFG's Coffeehouse....a curmudgeonly caffeinated library & cantankerous free for all

    Certainly more than it venerates any grand narrative.
  19. Peder

    A Love Beyond Time Book One: Power of Love Quartet

    [/INDENT] No! I don't think she "must now find!" That is the most hackneyed phrase in all of blurb writing. Couldn't you find some other way to describe her motivation for her quest? Don't mean to pick on you or your book. But you have finally gotten my attention enough to click on your...
  20. Peder

    Do we learn from history?

    For a while, anyway.:oops:
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