CoL49 group reading - tidbit from Chapter 1
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 10:06:05 UTC 2024
Anorak fare (-;
Whilst trying to remember anything about Pierce that might’ve led to him
naming her, she does a bunch of stuff, including
“reading of book reviews in the latest Scientific American”
June 1964 -
Long review of a book on cybernetics
Short reviews of, among others
- CP Snow book on 2 cultures, expanding on his 1959 lecture
- Mushroom hunter’s guide
- A book of biographical essays on Faraday, Maxwell, and Kelvin
- Oceanic Sculpture, Melanesian carvings & masks, “some are almost
overpoweringly grotesque and terrifying, [like Doc Hilarius’s Fu Manchu]
some subtly sinister, some brilliantly humorous…”
July 1964 -
Long review of a book on human behavior
Short reviews including:
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister, a Protestant clergyman,
first to use psychoanalysis to help his parishioners
- _Architecture in Transition_ by Constantine Doxiades, who suggested that
“[the] solution for the expanding metropolis is to build it like a strip
development along a central traffic artery and call it a ‘dynopolis’”
August is almost autumn but -
Long review of a book on decision theory in government
Short reviews
- Lectures on gas theory by Boltzmann
- The World of the Past by Jacquetta Hawkes
- Mocrographia by Robert Hooke (illustrated)
- I was wondering if there’d be anything on postal systems, but tbh,
mention of this pursuit seems more to establish Oedipa as capable of
serious thought than to point to any particular book
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