You can tell I’m on holiday, I’ve had time in the last five days to sit around reading. These are the books I’ve read recently: Continue reading ‘More books…’
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I took my mum to see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
For ages I’ve been meaning to keep track of the books I read as I finish reading them. My friend Ryan has been doing this for some time; he doesn’t write full reviews, just the date when he finishes a book and maybe a one line comment about what he thought of it. I’d intended to do this starting at the beginning of this year, but what with one thing and another never got round to it. But now… Continue reading ‘A Deepness in the Sky’
Whoa.
Someone pointed me at this in a discussion about data, information, knowledge (and the differences between them) and knowing the unknowable:
A (very) short story called The Library of Babel in which the symmetrically structured library represents the universe as it is conceived by rational man, and the library’s illegible books refers to man’s ignorance.
Fascinating.
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