I've started reading The Great Gatsby for what may be the first time? I'm unsure. I read an article recently about certain books that everyone claims to have read, but not many really have, and Gatsby was one of them. I always thought I read it in high-school, and always marked it off as 'read' …
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
A very powerful book that will change the way you think about migrants/refugees/the poor. I thought I had a socialist bent, I thought I was a person sensitive to these things. This book magnified my socialism/humanism by 100. When we are divided out as millions of individuals, we are weak, and will be taken advantage …
Trees look like nervous systems
Naked trees, especially in the fog, make me think of nervous systems. They are kind of creepy looking if you think of it that way. The roots could be nerves too, though we don't see them. Branches are kind of like air-roots. The tree we see above ground is a mirror of the roots below... …
Oh my God the dictionary!
I started reading it... and am wondering why I never did this before. It's like walking through a treasure-filled cavern and snatching up any glinting piece that pulls my eye. So many words! I wish I had a randomized version of the dictionary so that all my new words wouldn't start with A, but here …
Conspiracies… :o
I've started reading Foucault's Pendulum, which appears to be about a group of editors who create a conspiracy for fun, but then end up believing in it themselves. I'm just at the beginning of it, but already the type of mind to create and believe in complicated conspiracies is captured very well in the narrator. …
Jonas David 