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[limesoda]

hae you ever experienced the phenomenon in which a book someone recommended to you entirely reminds you of them? it's as if all of the details explored in the book are directly out of their personal philosophy and remind you so heavily of things they'd do or say. it's happened to me twice, and it's kinda cool. i wonder if there's a book of mine

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[ahck]

what/who were the previous two books?

maybe if i ever get around to reading all the things you recommend to me, i'll find your book. ;0)

comments longer than the post, hmm.

[limesoda]

back in the day, pierre had two: the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and terry pratchett's whole discworld series (but especially small gods).

that made a lot of the things that pierre said seem less funny/intelligent because someone else had though of (and published!) them first.

right now, i'm in the middle of the illuminatus! trilogy, borrowed from cliff.

it's having the exact opposite effect; because the whole point of the book is connecting a whole lot of random shit in paranoid ways, cliff-esque remarks about the freemasons and the law of fives seem more hilarious and paranoid than ever.

[kylerusnakus]

Can we try to figure out our own books and recommend those? 'cause if so, I would go with Peace is Every Step and Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh - especially the line "It is better to understand something about everything than to know everything about something." Kind of a big influence on me back when I was, what, 17 or 18.. years ago!

[limesoda]

reminds me of some univ of chicago words of wisdom: "you'll leave here knowing a little about everything and a whole lot about one thing."

[kylerusnakus]

Haha, yeah, sounds like the UoC is the exact opposite of Thich Nhat Hanh's ideal.

[limesoda]

I think that UoC does a better job than any other college in the country at promoting well-roundedness in mental exploration. There's always those "do whatever you want" kinds of schools (Brown comes to mind), but those are only balanced in the right hands.

Then again, I could be completely misinterpreting what Thich Nhat Hanh is promoting, for the very good reason that I haven't read his book. If I'm completely mistaken, please clarify.