August 19, 2010
Tags: Adam Phillips, Bill Bryson, Books
Every year I have a yard sale where I attempt to get rid of the year’s accumulation of capitalist effluvia. Since I have lots of storage space, I have merchandise still in stock from years’ past as well as much of the stuff that didn’t sell in my mother’s estate sale 3 years ago. One Read the Rest…
August 17, 2010
Tags: Books, Cats, The Great Books
I always knew that one day one of my cats would pee on the Great Books: that ponderous, pretentiously leather –bound set from Encyclopedia Britannica which my parents bought in the 1960’s. The exclusively male writers, chosen by Mortimer J Adler, include Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Plutarch, Aquinas, Newton, Kant, James, Darwin. There are 52 Read the Rest…