[lit-ideas] Re: assumption


On Mar 24, 2009, at 7:01 AM, Paul Stone wrote:

 how we misread things in these
crazy brains of ours.
Also file under humor (?) the name of the company that has sent to my neighbor's yard two workers armed with leaf blowers so loud the operators need ear muffs, "Peace of Mind." 

Which brings me to the 'lit' part of this post: another book
recommendation I could give would be Jill Bolte Taylor's book "My
Stroke of Insight"


This sounds interesting.
My current recommendation--which was going to wait for Geary's return, but as Moses knew, fine reads wait for no man--is Tony Hawks, "Round Ireland with a Fridge." It's pointless in the way that only a book about winning a bet that you can't hitch-hike round Ireland accompanied by a fridge in less than a month...can be pointless. The writer attempts to find meaning in the experience, struggling with notions of what he calls "fridge philosophy." The best he can do is lead a Jesus-like procession into Dublin at the end of the journey. But what should the crowd chant? 

TONY: WHAT DO WE WANT?
CROWD: WE DON'T KNOW.
TONY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
CROWD: NOW!

Pretty much meaning-free, and quite brill.

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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