Nudge, nudge, gentle readers, just to be clear.

[Mark Kohut]

MK: I'm not starting the [M & D] Read.

MK: I like it so I hope if we do almost everyone jumps into the dance.
I  will.

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Meanwhile, I want to highly recommend a book in which Melanie Jackson
appears on the last acknowledgments page. With therefore hints that
maybe her shadow reader husband was involved in parts? *

That book is AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFE by Sarah Bakewell.
"No ideas but in people", one might adapt WCWilliams' remark to describe
this book.

Wherein one of the interesting, but minor things I learned, was that the CIA
got the dying Franz Fanon out of Algeria to a hospital in Bethesda MD, where
he did die. at 38.


* In which I also learned that Heidegger had a "They/Them" as controllers
of us all in some of his writing,
I think in the later work, The Question of Technology. In which I learned
that a writer on human beings and computers named
Dreyfus evidently wrote a very good book in 2001 on why "the Internet is
THE technological innovation that
most clearly reveals what technology is". Which makes a reader of BLEEDING
EDGE want to read it.

PS I think this guy is Herbert Dreyfus, I'm not looking anything up, who I
remember reading much earlier than 2001; a book about computers and beings
in which I think he predicted that a machine could not beat the best chess
players which gave me hope until they did. (But
I may have a self-created memory of Herb)
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