article]Bookstores of New York

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/06/bookstores-of-new-york.html#livefyre

So heartwarming. :)   That's probably the reason to live in NY, albeit the terrible humid summer and freezing winter I guess lol.

Latin Library

LATIN LIBRARY

WWI; Imperialistic or Nationalistic war

Started to read The Embrace of Unreason; France, 1914-40 by Frederick Brown
http://www.amazon.com/Embrace-Unreason-France-1914-1940/dp/0307595153/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401738749&sr=1-1&keywords=unreason+france


Herbert Spencer described Serbs as inherently warlike after traveling Southern Europe.


Anyway, while reading the early portion of the book, which deals with WWI and Serbia;


The War happened because Austria was involved at the outset.
They perceived the Assassination as representing an '[I]existential[/I]' threat (that which could bring about the collapse of their Empire), hence their resorting to extreme measures.
And because it was A-H, not Ottoman Turk, the whole Europe got involved. I don't think the whole Europe would've fought over Ottoman Turk.
Which again, leads to my assumption that this historical war was not imperial, but Nationalist in origin.
Sure the war was fought all over the place for example Africa, but that was just the symptom, not the cause.
And how else would you fit A-H and Russia into the Imperialistic argument? Did they have colonies over the world like England, France and Germany? Nope.
Did Russia intervene over Imperial issues, colonies? Nope. The intervened over [I]Serbia, in the name of Pan Slavism.[/I]
Just because that Imperialistic nations fought, labeling it as an Imperialistic war doesn't quite make sense. It was always, at its core, a Nationalistic outburst.

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.