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Review: Epictetus
Discourses and Selected Writings Epictetus (trans. Robert Dobbin) (Penguin) Epictetus. Freed slave, logician, and stoic, is one of the many classical writers more often referenced than read. Epictetus’s name is bandied frequently when the subject of stoicism comes up. His writings were extremely influential on Marcus Aurealius (some of the writing attributed to Epictetus exists…
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Acquisitions Week of 2/13/2011
V. Charm is adding to his holding a lot faster than I am. My only acquisition this week is: Israel Drazin, Maimonides: Reason Above All, Geffen, New York (2010) Received as a review copy from the publisher. – Seanv2
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Acquisitions, week of 2/7
I was belatedly celebrating some overtime this week, but that’s still no excuse. The piles of unread books lining my garret climb ever higher. Still, here are the books I acquired this week. W. Branch Johnson, Folktales of Normandy. The Whitefriars Press, London (1929). I got this at a used bookstore in the college town…
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An apt thought for today
But Mahmoud’s old doubts came back in the evening. He and his brother were walking along streets that grew more and more empty, past faces deprived of any vitality. Exhausted pedestrians were trudging home or standing silently at bus stops. Some men were sitting against a wall, dozing, their faces on their knees. Mahmoud pointed…
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Sargent Shriver, gangland financier
The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang, Natalie Y. Moore and Lance Williams (Lawrence Hill Books, 2011). Some of the most eye-opening passages of this informative, worthwhile history of a notorious Chicago street gang come in the form of the context of the times in which the…
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Training Totals 2.6.2011
RECAP: Last week was another week in crap city. Whatever, it’s behind me and winter is half over. I had a halfway decent run on Thursday, but besides that, it just sucked. The ankle/PF was killing me, and the roads were awful, so I decided to take the rest of the week off. Monday however…
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Egyptian Books
During law school I spent a summer in Egypt. I made many friends and read my fair share of books. Someone once said to understand a people, read their poetry. I’m not a poetry fan, but here are some of the best Egyptian authors or books about Egypt that I have read. I don’t read…
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Training Totals 1.30.2011
RECAP: After a depressing and difficult week, I think I am on the mend. Got a strong thirty miles in this week and was feeling really good until yesterday when the heel started to act up again. We’ll see how it goes, I think it is going to take a little time, but I am…
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Running Injured
Running is an odd sport. It ranks among the most popular physical endeavors for adults in the United States, but unlike work softball leagues or pick up soccer, most of us, me included, are out there, alone, in the dark. I don’t have a coach, I do have a club, but scheduling issues means I…
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Shining Path
Nicolas Shakespeare, the author of The Dancer Upstairs has an incredible article on his first meeting with Martiza Lecca. Lecca is the ballerina in whose apartment Shining Path leader Alerto Guzman was captured. The article is haunting and excellent, check it out. Not a lot is available in English about Shining Path, and much of…
Milo and the Calf 