Recently read books and movies I, Others? like

[Ian Livingston]

Thanks! I'll have to watch the youtube vid a little later on, and I will
add Departures and The Moors to my list. I see few good movies, really, and
have determined to relegate film to the area of entertainment. I just
received Jane Campion's latest, Portrait of a Lady, but my sweetie and I
will have to watch that together, I think, which, given our schedules, is
no small feat.

The Tao Te Ching and I Ching are both rich reads. Both invite various
translations, which is one reason I am particularly fond of Jonathan
Starr's Tao Te Ching. His translation offers a glossary of each verse with
various translations for each character in the verse. I think such a volume
of the I Ching would run into the thousands of pages, so I am content with
Alfred Huang's version.

My favorite recent read has been Spinoza's Ethics. It is strikingly rich
for such a quick read and it seems a likely Pynchon influence.



On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Some folks are paranoid or perhaps just wisely cautious  these days about
> personal info but I'm going to list a few media inputs I have found
> worthwhile lately and would love to hear from others.
>
>   This is Terrance Mckenna doing a wonderfully rich lecture about
> Finnegan's Wake. He also delves into Marshall Mcluhan and many interesting
> and appropriate  side trips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq9jmELA00U
>
>  The Japanese film Departures I found to be beautiful.
>
> The Tao Te Ching in a variety of translations
>
> Gary Snyder's  Practice of the Wild
>
> The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins  ( This is not the famous short
> story  but a nonfiction work by a NYT science writer about a man who had a
> near death experience that caused him to start making clones of the largest
> and oldest trees in North America and now other bioregions. It leads into
> fascinating current science on trees.)
>
> When the Moors ruled Europe  ( Netflix)
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