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• pile (Score:2)

  by inkdroid (3294) on 2004.06.02 8:33 (#31244) Homepage Journal

  If you have the time, an inquiring mind would like to know what items are in the pile :-)

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  • Re:pile (Score:2)

    by rafael (2125)

    Pretty much the complete works of Georges Dumézil and Claude Levi-Strauss for mythology, history books by Georges Duby, Fernand Braudel, Robert Mandrou, Jacques Le Goff, Mircea Eliade; and for mythology, the sources as well (in a rough chronological order: Homer, Hesiod, Herodotes, Ovid, the Bible, some Upanishads, the Mahabharata, the Fathers of the Church, the Quran, the Edda, the Skaldsparmal, the Kalevala) and I'm forgetting lots. On a less specialized range, the writings on mythology of Freud an
    • Re:pile (Score:2)

      by inkdroid (3294)

      Holy fuck that's alot of text :-)
    • Re:pile (Score:2)

      by TorgoX (1933)

      It all sounds too ponderous. I advise instead:

      • Dao De Jing
      • Tacitus: Annals of Ancient Rome
      • Lucien Freud: Conversations with Alfred North Whitehead
      • Vidal: Messiah
      • Sampson: Writing Systems
      • Burroughs: Naked Lunch
      • Eco: Search for the Perfect Language
      • Saul: Voltaire's Bastards

      Then go play with some Legos and watch Futurama. I KOMMAND IT!
      • Re:pile (Score:2)

        by TorgoX (1933)

        Oops, I forgot science fiction (20th century and all that). So, Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix Plus.
      • Re:pile (Score:2)

        by TorgoX (1933)

        Oops2: "Lucien Freud: Conversations with Alfred North Whitehead" should be "Lucien Price: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".
      • Re:pile (Score:2)

        by rafael (2125)

        On that list, I've already read the Dao De Jing, Tacitus, and Burroughs (which seems not to fit with the others). Voltaire's Bastards is already on my to-buy list :)