October 6, 2013

The Pleasure of My Company - by: Steve Martin (2003)

Let me just quote a couple of my favorite passages from this novel:

"My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them."

And... in reference to a small child character in the storys:

"He was a person beyond logic; he was the singularity."

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...