kevin

“From my observation and experience of all in flourishing nations everywhere, what is taking place, so help me God, is nothing but a conspiracy of the rich, as it were, who look out for themselves under the pretext of serving the commonwealth”
-500 years ago
(-and now)
((-and probably 500 years from now))
(((if there is a 500 years from now)))

besides the skewering of the self-serving wealthy and ineffectual ruling class, under a slightly different tone i feel what is being described is a dystopia and i'm assuming i'm the first to realize that in review.=P

“A young man spends all of his time reading, but he's not very bright and cannot understand what he reads.”

A few parts of a few of the essays in part II sour things a bit, I think. Part I is *****.

I went to Church.

“snake eating tail”

i agree with some of the 2-star reviews here, but...

iv, v, vi ++

-> history that touch places that touch people who've been to places in ->

maybe 2.5 . the later stuff was better, particularly “materialism, a fable”

very british.

the stories may have connected in a way that I missed.

couldn't help reading Pyle with a British accent.

dreamy but detached.

i liked the pictures.

I bought this book on August 6th, 2006 at 10:24am.

I still had scholastic hopes, then.

ramble on.

created stuff that creator has no intention of making public being made public, that's hard to judge.

I understood the implications of ‘kafkaesque' before reading but now no longer do.

guilt and duty equals ?

4/5 silly, 1/5 heavy

expedited epic.

I liked the form...just felt it shoulda stewed longer.

brief introduction. not too academic. didn't spend enough time exploring socialism compared to liberalism and conservatism. also, “and solutions” should probably be stricken from subtitle.

people often make fun of what is kind and good.

??i thought i'd have to read it twice or more before i'd say ‘oh..' but i did with maybe 20 pages to gobut then it was back to ??

+0.5 for reading after Stravinsky's autobiography.

i think i'm missing something

i'm a libra

2.66repeating, really.

“Whoop-de-doo. What does it all mean, Basil?” - Austin “Danger” Powers (1999)

broad strokes with some nice connections made, but a bit haphazard for my tastes. good stuff, warrants further ponders.

A brief foray.