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elainegrey) wrote2010-04-23 08:25 am
elainegrey) wrote2010-04-23 08:25 am
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Oh, autosave, when you commit at the moment i accidently highlight and delete my morning's writing, how you seem misnamed.
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I fell asleep rather early last night. I had been dozing off as Liam Neeson finished narrating the final episode of Greeks: Crucible of Civilization, Empire of the Mind. I appreciated learning how Socrates' life was in the context of the Pelopennesian War, with the Athenians packed inside their walled city, and with an outbreak of plague. I think often about how differently humans can react to the experience of loss and the possibility of more loss: knowing Socrates last decades were a time of siege and plague is intriguing. I do wonder how accurate was the show's message that Socrates (and his students) ushered in an age of reason.
I also finished the 1960 edition of The Annotated Alice. I am not enthusiastic about the book's annotations: they were pleasant additions and useful, but not as diverting as i'd hoped. I realize that The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (published 1999, joining the 1960 edition with the 1990 sequel More Annotated Alice) may or may not be an order of magnitude improved.
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Oh, autosave, when you save my twice written entry in the face of a Apple-Adobe feud Flash-crash of Safari, how you seem well named.
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I fell asleep rather early last night. I had been dozing off as Liam Neeson finished narrating the final episode of Greeks: Crucible of Civilization, Empire of the Mind. I appreciated learning how Socrates' life was in the context of the Pelopennesian War, with the Athenians packed inside their walled city, and with an outbreak of plague. I think often about how differently humans can react to the experience of loss and the possibility of more loss: knowing Socrates last decades were a time of siege and plague is intriguing. I do wonder how accurate was the show's message that Socrates (and his students) ushered in an age of reason.
I also finished the 1960 edition of The Annotated Alice. I am not enthusiastic about the book's annotations: they were pleasant additions and useful, but not as diverting as i'd hoped. I realize that The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (published 1999, joining the 1960 edition with the 1990 sequel More Annotated Alice) may or may not be an order of magnitude improved.
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Oh, autosave, when you save my twice written entry in the face of a Apple-Adobe feud Flash-crash of Safari, how you seem well named.