Moses has horns

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Exodus 34:29-35

Biblia Sacra Vulgata (VULGATE)

²⁹ cumque descenderet Moses de monte Sinai tenebat duas tabulas testimonii et ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua ex consortio sermonis Dei

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord. 

King James Bible
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

Obviously St. James made a translation error lol(he wrote the Vulgate).

http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Exo&c=34&t=LXX

Septuagint (LXX)

ὡς δὲ κατέβαινεν Μωυσῆς ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους καὶ αἱ δύο πλάκες ἐπὶ τῶν χειρῶν Μωυσῆ καταβαίνοντος δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους Μωυσῆς οὐκ ᾔδει ὅτι δεδόξασται ἡ ὄψις τοῦ χρώματος τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ λαλεῖν αὐτὸν αὐτῷ

The Lost World by Crichton; bibliography

John Alexander, Mark Boguski, Edwin Colbert, John Conway, Philip Currie, Peter Dodson, Niles Eldredge, Stephen Jay Gould, Donald Griffin, John Holland, John Horner, Fred Hoyle, Stuart Kauffman, Christopher Langton, Ernst Mayr, Mary Midgley, John Ostrom, Norman Packard, David Raup, Jeffery Schank, Manfred Schroeder, George Gaylord Simpson, Bruce Weber, John Wheeler, David Weishampel.

Stefan Zweig

I'm kicking myself for not buying WSJ Weekend edition this Saturday, since I can't browse Andre Aciman's in depth article on Zweig and Prochnik's book on him, The Impossible Exile.  Was always intrigued by A-H writers during that era(actually read some novellas not so long ago).

As Aciman says NYRB has published some of Zweig's outputs, it would be lovely to buy them but..first should check it out on my local library(just finished the article, by the way);

Confusion / Stefan Zweig ; introduction by George Prochnik ; translated by Anthea Bell.  * by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 New York : New York Review Books, c2012. Media Icon:

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Journey into the past / Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German and with an afterword by Anthea Bell ; introduction by André Aciman.  * by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 New York : New York Review Books, c2011. Media Icon:

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The buried candelabrum [by] Stefan Zweig; translated by Eden and Cedar Paul; illustrated by Berthold Wolpe. by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 New York, The Viking Press, 1937. Media Icon:

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The royal game by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 New York : Viking Press, 1944. 187 p. Media Icon:

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Conflicts : three tales by Stefan Zweig; translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 New York : Viking Press, 1927. 297 p.

Lol only 5 books, I might have more luck with LAPL..

Revolution regarding elite's career path

Until only recently(like before WWII?), large portion of English aristocrats' sons chose either clergy or military as a career.

Now? Never lol, maybe in the financial sector like consultant...

QUITE a revolutionary change, don't you think? After like more than a millenia...or probably, from the beginning of time...(think about Ancient Egypt)

St. Jerome's Temptation

From Witham, p. 71;

"poor wretch that I was, I used to fast and then read Cicero. After shedding thears which the remembrance of past sins brought forth from my inmost heart, I would take in my hands a volume of Plautus. When I came to myself and began to read a prophet again, I rebelled at the uncouth style..."

Ancient Christian Writes: Letters of St. Jerome, vol. 1, trans. Charles Christopher Mierow(New York: Paulist Press, 1963), 165-66.

Freaking hilarious lol, I must find out the original Latin one.

Two books I have trouble borrowing; Piketty & Wade!

One is all the rage, especially getting plenty of (negative) attention by WSJ and the Economist, naturally lol

Capital in the twenty-first century / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
by Piketty, Thomas, 1971-
	Cambridge Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.

The other book also deals with a controversial subject; race!

A troublesome inheritance : genes, race and human history / Nicholas Wade.
by Wade, Nicholas J. author.
	New York, New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.

TIME] Aug. 6, 2012 'HOW GUNS WON'

Main article is by Joe Klein, and he contrasts Clinton and Gore's courageous stance against Obama's cowardly one.

But first, editor Richard Stengel says that 'No reasonable person will dispute that Americans have some right to keep and bear arms'

ONLY IN AMERICA.  Only in America is bearing arms 'elevated' to a right; and you wonder there's so many gun accidents and mass killings.

In a side article by Nate Rawlings, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT sells spent shells at surplus prices. Not only local law enforcement agencies.

So it's as systemic problem, as well.  The origin of this mess IS that the government allowed arms to circulate in the private sector and allowing gun manufacturers such as Colt and etc. to mass produce and sell arms.

So the harm has been done, ABETTED by the federal government. What a tragedy.



P.S. Chuck Schumer is named as the prime sponsor of most gun control legislation. Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed a tax on ammunition.

Korean superstition

I actually believed this lol.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-track-planet/10-craziest-superstitions_b_5055274.html

"
It's an extremely entrenched belief in South Korea that if you go to sleep with a fan on in your room, you will die. The belief is so strong that even medical professionals in the country warn against it. All electric fans sold in South Korea come with a timer setting, which automatically turns the fan off after a few minutes, protecting South Koreans from believed fan related deaths such as hypothermia and asphyxiation."

339 books referenced in 'Gilmore Girls'

http://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/all-339-books-referenced-in-gilmore-girls

God I love GG lol.
The ones I've read, bolded(not much I'm afraid!)

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
16. Babe by Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

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27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide by Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
32. Carrie by Stephen King
33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
37. Christine by Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
52. Cujo by Stephen King
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

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54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
61. Deenie by Judy Blume
62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
64. The Divine Comedy by Dante (Read only Inferno)
65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
66. Don Quixote by Cervantes
67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (Read some)
70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
73. Eloise by Kay Thompson
74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
75. Emma by Jane Austen
76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
79. Ethics by Spinoza
80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

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81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
83. Extravagance by Gary Krist
84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

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107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
112. The Graduate by Charles Webb
113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
116. The Group by Mary McCarthy
117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
125. Henry V by William Shakespeare
126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

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133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg
136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
137. The Iliad by Homer
138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres
139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
140. Inferno by Dante
141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence  Currently reading this
154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
169. The Love Story by Erich Segal
170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
173. Marathon Man by William Goldman
174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken  I thought it was H. L. Mencken, not R...
180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
206. Night by Elie Wiesel
207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

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211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
212. Old School by Tobias Wolff
213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
219. Othello by Shakespeare
220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan  Just read some, should finish it
222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
237. Property by Valerie Martin

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238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
240. Quattrocento by James Mckean
241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

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265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
270. Selected Hotels of Europe
271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
275. Sexus by Henry Miller
276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
277. Shane by Jack Shaefer
278. The Shining by Stephen King
279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
282. Small Island by Andrea Levy
283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
289. Songbook by Nick Hornby
290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
298. Stuart Little by E. B. White
299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust           Should finish it
301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
306. Time and Again by Jack Finney
307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
312. The Trial by Franz Kafka
313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
316. Ulysses by James Joyce
317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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319. Unless by Carol Shields
320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Divide and Fall

Along with excessive military expenditure(so you can't invest in other crucial fields. USSR, for example? Other empires too, and of course, Europe as a whole. Is USA heading this way as well? They are spending ENORMOUS amount on arms..like TWICE the amount of other top nations COMBINED..the REAL reason of USA's hegemon maybe?...).

Division.

Peloponnesian War.

Italy city states.

To think of it, football is PERFECT for a country like Italy, whose geography is not really conducive to a unified state(The Allies learned it the hard way when they followed Churchill's 'soft underbelly' advice and invaded Italy).

And France also, the 3rd Republic. Republican/Monarchist, Catholic/Republican, Military-Dreyfuss affair..SO many fissure points. No wonder they lost to Nazi Germany.

The importance of Agent in history

Lebow emphasizes this and I tend to agree.

Without Hitler, no Holocaust. This may be an extreme example, but WWI is an another suitable case.

Because most of the foreign policy decisions were made by a very small cohorts of decision makers, virtually all of'em aristocrats.

They all fucked up, to put it mildly.

If you contrast them to Bismarck...you know what I mean. Bismarks was also from a Junker family yet he had an uncanny understanding of the trend and macro-relationships; hence he was a master of domestic and diplomatic relations. For example he forstalled the Socialists by introducing various social insurance policies lol. He was THAT astute.

If that stupid Princip failed the attempt, and instead some other guy killed say Moltke, would WWI happened? Bear in mind, the pressure for PEACE was very much alive at that point, too.

Larry Witham's 'Piero's Light'

Just started to read it(ditched all those WWI & II related books, got tired of that period lol. After finishing earlier period history books, will tackle them later).

It's a bio of Piero Della Francesca, but it deals with the Renaissance period very well, succintly covering many aspects of that period. 1850s too, when his work began to gain recognition.
(I've read some Renaissance books earlier so I think I can gauge the books' worth more or less)

So I can heartily recommend this book. If you want to know more about the Italian Masters like me, all the better.

Finished Richard Lebow

After fits and starts, finally finished it and can recommend it to anybody, especially who has basic knowledge of history at that era.
Lots of nice information, and sound explanation as well. For example

p. 225

3 gradients shaping FP in 1014

1. Size of the middle class
2. Extent to which aristocrasts were comfortable in reaching compromise with the rising middle class: note that British did this very well.
3. Control of foreign and military policy.

In all 3, Germany fares unfavorably with Britain. As Lebow says, it was decisive in the matter of European peace: failed those tests.

Also Lebow's contention that WWI "is the result of material and ideational changes associated with modernity" seems apt enough.

How did those aristocrats perceive this phenomenon? Not too favorably, hence their preference of (honor of) war.

Note that German merchant magnates pleaded Kaiser to avoid war.

So,Cumberbatch's fine acting notwithstanding in the TV adaptation of Ford's novel, good riddance, aristocrats! You certainly went out with a Bang, killing millions.

Movie]Last Love(2013)

Sandra Nettlebeck's film is so different from Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Allen's movie is so upbeat..like most of his films lol.

It's based on a novel by Françoise Dorner (novel) , maybe should check it out..

Interesting books today at the library

http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Every-Day-Seneca-Court-ebook/dp/B00F8F7OZQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400368262&sr=1-1&keywords=dying+every+day+seneca+at+the+court+of+nero

http://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UMO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400368346&sr=1-1&keywords=birth+of+the+west+collins

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer (Feb 27, 2014)

http://www.amazon.com/French-Intifada-Between-France-Arabs-ebook/dp/B00F1R0RYQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400368169&sr=1-1&keywords=french+intifada

http://www.amazon.com/Taste-Intrigue-Multiple-Fran%C3%A7ois-Mitterrand-ebook/dp/B00FOAJ8WC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400368393&sr=1-1&keywords=taste+for+intrigue+the+multiple+lives+of+fran%C3%A7ois+mitterrand

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Warfare-History-Americas-Undeclared-ebook/dp/B00H6UOCS8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400368437&sr=1-1&keywords=shadow+warfare+the+history+of+america%27s+undeclared+wars

Why Laissez-Faire is not right

The word itself is significant; the French Right is as rabid as anybody. For example their business practice was quite harsh, as harsh as any, during the Modern Era.  As we all know, it led to Vichy France, spelling the end of the Third Republic.

Anyway, the myth that market can regulate itself is a fantasy. History proves it wrong. Modern Capitalist economy endured countless cycles of depressions, it's practically a routine. And we all know how those two economic disasters came about, the Great Depression and the more recent one in 2008(before that, 1997 in East Asia).

How about Gun regulation.  Gun lovers say that people is the problem, not the gun.
Of course, since people uses the gun.
But the problem of that position is, human nature DOESN'T CHANGE.
How virtuous do you think we are compared to the ancients?  We might be greedier actually, since the tempering factor, Religion, has been losing its grip on the human conscience for some time.

Hence, more regulation as the solution is only a logical one. More strict background check, AND strict regulation AFTER buying it, not unlike Driving License. Of course education and psychiatric attention is important as well.

Trigger happy Americans; a disease?

Americans are familiar with countless gun 'accidents' occurring in their country.

Cops' shoot first 'policy' is one of them.

Just finished Michael Dobb's
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War

And this 'disease' was apparent even in post War Berlin; American soldiers committed more gun related accidents that any other countries(that is, the other 3 nations that administered the city). A soldier even accidentally shot a conductor of Berlin Philharmonic to death.

An army officer is said to have explained that it is an historical outcome of the Wild West, saying that they had to shoot first to ensure survival at that time.

How reassuring.   And alas, it will continue..America really might be a country of Gun & God; is that ironic?..

The Economist is afraid of Thomas Piketty & his book

Unusually, they wrote TWO articles about his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. One a Leader, then a more detailed look in a single print edition.

They even mention that the magazine didn't pay attention to Karl Marx' magnum opus when it was published, like it's anything to be proud of lol.

So this time, they're not taking any chances; they're aiming to 'nip in the bud'.

Should be interesting.

World War I counterfactual history

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I Hardcover

by Richard Ned Lebow (Author)

 

Quite enjoying this rather slim book. Has great insights and information; for example on page 63, mentions a 1970 poll in the US that revealed that almost 90% of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies favored more regulations because it created a more level ground of competition.

 

And he lambasts the rise neoliberalism in the 1980s like this; "resurrecting long-discredited and demonstrably false shibboleths about the market's being its own best regulator"

 

The world-wide conomic crisis during Bush Jr.'s 2nd term demonstrated that fallacy yet again.

 

And yet, pro business magazines like the Economist's mantra is always more deregulation...

Another gem on p. 68;

Republicans after WWI(dunno if this was during FDR's administration) opposed building interstate highway program as "a form of creeping socialism"

 

 

 

'Respectable' Playboy magazine

Don't underestimate Playboy.

In the 1970s, it actually published articles on some serious topics.

For example, David M .Glantz's Operation Barbarossa which I'm skimming through;

Seaton, Albert. The Battle for Moscow. New York: Playboy Press, 1971.

Mind boggling, isn't it lol.

Richard Overy complains

Just started his recent book The Bombers and the Bombed

On his Acknowledgments, he said he was indebted to many archives EXCEPT U.S. National Archives at College Park, Maryland, complaining that it's a researcher's nightmare lol.

I've never seen this open complaint on numerous Acknowledgements before, pretty hilarious haha.

Novel I'm reading

Yes, as D.H.Lawrence declared, the world needs tender fucking, not war.  Love his insights on various topics(especially on female psyche; Doris Lessing says Proust was THE master of it, interesting), enjoying so far.

I'm becoming partial to these Penguin clothbound editions...

Notes on what I borrowed

MOVIES

1 by 1 (Motion picture) 39009040396265 04/28/2014 05/05/2014 0

Documentary about Formula One, I'm not a fan but thought it could be interesting.

Museum hours by Cohen, Jem. 39009040404374 04/28/2014 05/05/2014 0

You get to see Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Art Museum, so why not.

Reaching for the moon by Reaching for the moon (Motion picture : 2013) 39009040395697 04/28/2014 05/05/2014 0

Renoir by Bourdos, Gilles, 1963- 39009040404242 04/28/2014 05/05/2014 0

Tous les matins du monde All the mornings of the world / by Livi, Jean-Louis 39009040393734 05/01/2014 05/09/2014 0

Saw this such a long time ago, time to rewatch.

The hunger games. Catching fire by Hunger games, catching fire (Motion picture) 39009040455871 05/02/2014 05/09/2014 0

You see, even though I think Lawrence is overrated, I do watch her movies..or just because that it's an action movie, which I like lol.  Yeah, you can borrow this for free, no need to go to movie theatres... :)

MUSIC

Library has a nice Classical music collection so took advantage of it

Bluebeard's castle op. 11 (Sz 48) : opera in one act / by Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945 39009025821402 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

Heard good things about this.

Das Rheingold by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 39009022114322 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0 Das Rheingold by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 39009038688632 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

The famous Solti version(I don't have this one, only a short compilation)

Tannhäuser by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 39009031535566 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

Tannhäuser by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 39009033591484 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

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Tannhäuser [sound recording] / Richard Wagner ; Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin ; Staatskapelle Berlin ; Daniel Barenboim

Yes I'm sucker for visuals; the cover 'art' was just too much.


Wagner's Ring collected highlights. by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883,

BOOKS

War

Archduke Franz Ferdinand lives! : a world without World War I / by Lebow, Richard Ned 39009050767389 04/14/2014 05/22/2014 1

Counter-factual history.

Operation Barbarossa : Hitler's invasion of Russia, 1941 / by Glantz, David M. 39009040049039 04/16/2014 05/07/2014 0

Glantz is THE expert you want to read on regarding the Eastern Front.

The bombers and the bombed : Allied air war over Europe, 1940-1945 / by Overy, R. J. 39009050795828 04/28/2014 05/19/2014 0

A look on a much maligned campaign by  a renowned? historian.

The guns at last light : the war in Western Europe, 1944-1945 / by Atkinson, Rick 39009040237535 04/14/2014 05/22/2014 1

I know I know, it's my 2nd reading, but Rick's writing is so entertaining lol.

Monty's men : the British Army and the liberation of Europe, 1944-5 / by Buckley, John (John D.) 39009050752100 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

Atkinson is pretty harsh on Monty, so let's look a bit close at how his Army faired, from a British point of view?

FDR and the Jews / by Breitman, Richard, 1947- 39009050543889 04/19/2014 05/10/2014 0

An intriguing subject, Jews were poorly treated by USA during those times; but should have a closer look.

Genesis : Truman, American Jews, and the origins of the Arab/Israeli conflict / by Judis, John B. 39009050789391 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

The above subject naturally leads to this.

Six months in 1945 : FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman-- from world war to cold war / by Dobbs, Michael, 1948- 39009050446463 04/16/2014 05/07/2014 0

A pivotal period in history; I'm not that interested in the Cold War period, but still. Should read this long with a bio or expose on the Dulles brothers by Stephen Kinzer.

POLITICS

Chomsky and Dershowitz : on endless war and the end of civil liberties / by Friel, Howard, 1955- 39009050786975 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

I just know their name, not much, so thought this interesting.

HISTORY

Constellation of genius : 1922: modernism year one / by Jackson, Kevin, 1955- 39009050680731 04/14/2014 05/22/2014 1

This is a year around diary like entries on 1922, a very fun read.

Danubia : a personal history of Habsburg Europe / by Winder, Simon 39009040447761 04/28/2014 05/19/2014 0

I always was fascinated by the Habsburgs.

The restoration of Rome : barbarian popes and imperial pretenders / by Heather, P. J. (Peter J.) 39009050824982 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

This is probably the 3rd part of the Barbarian Trilogy by Heather, very looking forward to it as I'm interested in this period.

The savage storm : Britain on the brink in the age of Napoleon / by Andress, David, 1969- 39009050746771 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

Napoleonic Age is another period I'm interested in; from a Conservative British viewpoint? Why not.

ART

Piero's light : in search of Piero della Francesca : a Renaissance painter and the revolution in art, science, and religion / by Witham, Larry, 1952- 39009050761010 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

I've read some Renaissance books from the 2nd part of last year. Let's continue. And of course I need to learn more about Art history.

Richard Wagner : a life in music / by Geck, Martin 39009050796610 05/01/2014 05/22/2014 0

Heard Wagner was a major pain in the ass lol. This is more of a technical biography, concentrating on his music and what Wagner sought to express by it.

'Les Vampires(1915)' mentioned on the movie Renoir

Just watching the movie Renoir and Jean (future filmmaker, son of Pierre-Augute) mentioned the movie by Louis Feuillade! (50:17 going into the movie)

He even says that he finds Musidora very mysterious.

Clearly the filmmakers have done some homework, I see lol.