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Re: Hi there friends » sigismund

Posted by beckett2 on March 18, 2018, at 3:19:04

In reply to Re: Hi there friends, posted by sigismund on March 14, 2018, at 19:08:47

> Neither of you can get sufficient comfort from your interest in what you know?
>
> Let's emphasise interest rather than comfort.
>
> I get a lot of pleasure out of trying to understand the world. It is a bleak kind of pleasure but the interest is real.
>
> I don't get lonely. I enjoy my brief encounters with ordinary people, at the fish shop or at the supermarket.
>
> I've been trying to understand Mark Blyth and read the usual suspects. And I've never read James Baldwin. Got a great bio of "Stalin Waiting for Hitler" by Stephen Kotkin. It reminded me of how anglo oriented our perspective is, just leaving our judgement to one side for the moment.

Lithuania is prepared for conflict with Russia. It's just accepted. The expulsion of diplomats and my first thought was of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

How did you make a hyperlink of a title?

I've just finished Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible https://tinyurl.com/y8e9hdsu. Before that, and unfortunately timely, A Very Expensive Poison https://tinyurl.com/y9n2l2ge. My approach is to start in the Nineties and work backwards and forwards, otherwise I lack context. The Future Is History https://tinyurl.com/ycan3f7h is in the queue.


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