I learned of this book in a very round-about way. I read an article about the declining population of Japan when I noticed a sharp decrease in the year 1966. I learned this was the year of the Fire Horse which according to superstition women will grow up to kill their husbands. The next one…… Continue reading Five Women Who Loved Love – Ihara Saikaku
Category: Books
My notes on books I’ve read.
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
In my previous post about the book The Guns of August, I mention how we learn a lot about World War Two but not World War One in school. However, as far as WWII goes, we learn mostly about the Nazis and the European theater. The only thing we really learn about the Pacific campaign…… Continue reading With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
The Guns of August
I’ve always wanted to understand more about the World Wars. In school we focus on World War Two but I cannot remember being taught anything about World War One. A quick search of the internet or simply asking around is always met with answer about the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand in Serbia. What I’ve…… Continue reading The Guns of August
Mysteries of the Unknown: Time and Space
I have a deep fascination with time. I am acutely aware at how fast it passes and am dismayed that I’m forty five years old. It is not a sadness at no longer being young but more-so being very surprised that this age has come so quickly. I’ve always known that time is precious and…… Continue reading Mysteries of the Unknown: Time and Space
Lapham’s Quarterly: Foreigners
Having spent a substantial amount of time in foreign countries I was looking forward to reading this edition of Lapham’s Quarterly. Furthermore, there is an anti-foreigner strain that gained a little steam under the Trump Presidency. History is rife with anti-immigrant sentiment and the USA is no exception. There was a discussion back in the…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly: Foreigners
Life After Life – Raymond Moody
Although I no longer believe in religion I remain a spiritual person always looking for evidence, for answers. I try to find these answers in multiple ways and have found one common thread throughout is meditation. Meditation at first blush seems like something esoteric from the orient. But what I’ve found is that it is…… Continue reading Life After Life – Raymond Moody
The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization – Peter Zeihan
Reading this book reminded me of another business book that made just as much of a splash twenty years ago but preached the opposite. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman spoke of erasing borders, a level playing field for the entire world where international economic cooperation would increase efficiency and drive down price. This…… Continue reading The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization – Peter Zeihan
Mysteries of the Unknown – Search for the Soul
Other researchers – literal-minded scientists – decided after elaborate experimentation that wherever it lurks in life, the soul must exist, for at death there is an infinitesimal but measurable weight loss representing its departure from the body. I’m not so sure about this idea. I would think that energy, or whatever the spirit or soul…… Continue reading Mysteries of the Unknown – Search for the Soul