Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Hestia, and Artemis by Ginette Paris.
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04-14-2018, 11:10 AM #2361I am the Cat who walks by himself; and all places are alike to me...
For the cat is cryptic,
and close to strange things which men cannot see.
He is the soul of antique Aegyptus,
and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroë and Ophir.
He is the kin of the jungle’s lords,
and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa.
The Sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language;
but he is more ancient than the Sphinx,
and remembers that which she hath forgotten...
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04-23-2018, 04:10 PM #2362
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
Wake me after the woke go to sleep.
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04-23-2018, 04:15 PM #2363
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04-23-2018, 07:49 PM #2364
Bladegrave by Tanith Lee. Loved the premise but the execution wasn't there.
How bad is the obesity problem in America? Roughly 600,000 Americans are too big to cosplay Jabba the Hutt.
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04-24-2018, 01:11 PM #2365
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Still chugging along on Borge's Labyrinths. Starting on Plato's Republic, I have low expectations for it, but I thought I'd give it a go for having some grounding in historical thought.
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05-02-2018, 12:45 PM #2366
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^ Borges is cool.
I got this, by Daario Nardi.
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05-02-2018, 12:56 PM #2367
Urban Tantra - Barbara Carrellas
I am the Cat who walks by himself; and all places are alike to me...
For the cat is cryptic,
and close to strange things which men cannot see.
He is the soul of antique Aegyptus,
and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroë and Ophir.
He is the kin of the jungle’s lords,
and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa.
The Sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language;
but he is more ancient than the Sphinx,
and remembers that which she hath forgotten...
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05-10-2018, 07:52 PM #2368
"Hello, My Name is Ice Cream". This might be the most awesome book I've read this year. It's about making various types of ice cream, sherbet, frozen yogurt, and toppings like milk jam, caramelized Rice Crispies, cinnamon-brown sugar streusel, butterscotch ripple, and gooey butter cake.
If you boil milk with a little sugar, it will eventually become golden brown and transform into a spreadable jam. You might know it as dulce de leche. Unlike caramel, which gets its deep golden brown flavor from the breakdown of sugars, milk jam gets its flavor from the Maillard reaction, which involves the browning of proteins. You might find yourself spooning milk jam on everything, from cookies to toast, and even into your morning coffee - hint, hint.How bad is the obesity problem in America? Roughly 600,000 Americans are too big to cosplay Jabba the Hutt.
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05-15-2018, 06:55 PM #2370
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On Connoisseurship and Reason in the Authentification of Art by Andrew Brainerd
It's quite good especially if you're interested in art authentification. Brainerd's idea is basically to show the difference there is between ‘connoisseurship’ (he considers a bit like the 'sixth sense' of the authenticator which is rarely questioned) and reason that relies on sciences, and he shows this through some case studies.
Brainerd was actually a lawyer who bought four paintings in the late 1960's which were thought at first to be forgeries as their owner had been branded as a crook and forger by professional authenticators. So Brainerd wanted to prove that an expert’s intuition wasn’t always right since it could be influenced sometimes for financial, professional subjective reasons.
What’s also interesting is that this book describes the main scientific methods of investigation used to detect forgeriesGreat art captures a time, a place and an emotion.
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