Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- History, Evidence and the Ethics of Belief (“Veritable reigns of terror, personal and political, have been fashioned from deeply held beliefs unsupported by the slightest whisper of evidence[.]”)
- Reviewing the Book Review (“To wander through 125 years of book reviews is to endure assault by adjective.”)
Nonbookish Linkage
- I’ve known this for nearly 50 years: you don’t need to believe in God to tell right from wrong
- How vulnerable is the world?
- Spacing out is good for you
- Nazi-themed toys were plentiful and varied in the Third Reich
- The death of cassette players (I was high tech when I installed 8-track decks in my car)
- It was artist Edwin Munch who wrote “madman” graffiti on his The Scream
- The great polio vaccine heist of 1959
Bookish Linkage
- Locking down with Kafka
- The dark world of rapture fiction
- Bonibooks, the precursor to Penguin
- The Internet Archive digitizes 3,500 books a day
- The world’s most-filmed bookstore
It’s amazing how much “mature wisdom” resembles being too tired.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
