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FredS wrote: 13 Nov 2024, 11:18 I bought a stack of local history books at auction and I'm working my way through this one, published in 1959. It's cool enough on it's own, but I found someone else's treasure map notes inside!

Also, this book was published only 3 years before I was born but it's publication date is closer to some of the 1800's mining and exploration it describes than it is to today. Good grief I'm old.

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Lee, The Last Years. It covers the Great American's life in detail from Appomatox to his death just a few years later. I reread this book frequently.

It's good for me to see that even in defeat, a man can triumph through duty, guts, forbearance, and acceptance of the will of God.

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I'm about to commence on a Wendell Berry marathon.
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Bloodhound wrote: 09 Dec 2024, 06:50
FredS wrote: 13 Nov 2024, 11:18 I bought a stack of local history books at auction and I'm working my way through this one, published in 1959. It's cool enough on it's own, but I found someone else's treasure map notes inside!

Also, this book was published only 3 years before I was born but it's publication date is closer to some of the 1800's mining and exploration it describes than it is to today. Good grief I'm old.

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Monkey by Wu Cheng'En
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Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom by F.W.J. Schelling
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Jocose wrote: 21 Dec 2024, 01:34 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom by F.W.J. Schelling
I'm surprised you are reading it again.
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coco wrote: 21 Dec 2024, 03:24
Jocose wrote: 21 Dec 2024, 01:34 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom by F.W.J. Schelling
I'm surprised you are reading it again.

If you thought your existential crisis was bad, wait until you dive into Schelling's book titled in the OP. This book is like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube whilst blindfolded - in a windstorm.

The writing style? Think of it as if Shakespeare decided to write philosophy but got lost in a forest of his own metaphors and never found his way back. You'll need a PhD in German Idealism just to understand the footnotes...
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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

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