AdamSmith Posted August 5, 2019 Posted August 5, 2019 This is pretty amazing. I spent a semester plowing through all of Milton under his guidance. Fucking astounding mind. First person (besides my parents) who really started to show me how to think. https://www.pbs.org/video/nc-bookwatch-reynolds-price-serious-way-wondering/
AdamSmith Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_Stars
AdamSmith Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 ‘The Last Civilized Man on Earth': The Incomparable Max Beerbohm http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/mortimer-beerbohm.html
AdamSmith Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/the-comparable-max/amp
AdamSmith Posted August 10, 2019 Posted August 10, 2019 The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski - review Tim Radford finds Bronowski's history of humanity, The Ascent of Man – reissued with a foreword by Richard Dawkins – as compelling as ever https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/apr/15/ascent-man-jacob-bronowski-review
AdamSmith Posted August 10, 2019 Posted August 10, 2019 ‘...I’m not Doctor bloody Bronowski!’ https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5wppq0
AdamSmith Posted August 11, 2019 Posted August 11, 2019 On 6/22/2019 at 6:11 AM, AdamSmith said: Pretty sharp.