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Just read the auto bio of Frederick Forsyth. Much like the Flemings, an adventurer. Youngest pilot in the RAF to fly Vampires, fluent in several languages thanks to his dad sending him to Europe to stay with natives as a schoolboy.
Became a foreign corespondent in East Berlin and wrote the Day of the Jackel quickly and had instant success.
I knew of Peter Fleming but not of his books, I shall read them. He reminds me of Freddie Spencer Chapman who stayed behind in Malaya to fight the Japs. In between the wars he climbed every mountain and went to the poles.
The Poms turned out remarkable people, no wonder they hung onto empire for so long.
Became a foreign corespondent in East Berlin and wrote the Day of the Jackel quickly and had instant success.
I knew of Peter Fleming but not of his books, I shall read them. He reminds me of Freddie Spencer Chapman who stayed behind in Malaya to fight the Japs. In between the wars he climbed every mountain and went to the poles.
The Poms turned out remarkable people, no wonder they hung onto empire for so long.
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Silent Thunder - in the presence of elephants.
Katy Pyne, who discovered long distance ultra sound communication between elephants. She also talks about the issue of alienation for those who choose the company of species other than their own. One of my own crosses.
" ..to be the only one who meets its gaze is sufficient. For so few sit here, and so little is known by those few, and what is known is so vital and so callously regarded by others.
If outsiders could make the same commitment as you have, everything would change. But should they look and not make that commitment, the violation would be unbearable - so this place is private. And sacred. Go away!"
Katy Pyne, who discovered long distance ultra sound communication between elephants. She also talks about the issue of alienation for those who choose the company of species other than their own. One of my own crosses.
" ..to be the only one who meets its gaze is sufficient. For so few sit here, and so little is known by those few, and what is known is so vital and so callously regarded by others.
If outsiders could make the same commitment as you have, everything would change. But should they look and not make that commitment, the violation would be unbearable - so this place is private. And sacred. Go away!"
...then he smiled again, and slipped away, further on up the stream
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Great quoteHairy-nosed Otter wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 4:24 pmSilent Thunder - in the presence of elephants.
Katy Pyne, who discovered long distance ultra sound communication between elephants. She also talks about the issue of alienation for those who choose the company of species other than their own. One of my own crosses.
" ..to be the only one who meets its gaze is sufficient. For so few sit here, and so little is known by those few, and what is known is so vital and so callously regarded by others.
If outsiders could make the same commitment as you have, everything would change. But should they look and not make that commitment, the violation would be unbearable - so this place is private. And sacred. Go away!"
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Andre Agassi’s auto biography is the best sports book I have ever read. Stayed with my son in Melbourne and all his books are either on economics or sport.
Geoff Lemon is a great cricket writer and his book on sandpapergate is excellent.
The Mark Nicholas book is also great, he was a much better cricketer and captain than I expected.
Geoff Lemon is a great cricket writer and his book on sandpapergate is excellent.
The Mark Nicholas book is also great, he was a much better cricketer and captain than I expected.
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Read, last year, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.... and in the new year, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem; then One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn; and a not half-bad sci-fi novella, The Engineer by Neal Asher; and then William Blake, A Study of his Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge; then, Schopenhauer's The Art of Literature ...and just recently reread, Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry.... And now am trying to penetrate Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon... but unless you first read the introduction and some Wikipedia background on the milieu of Europe and its dying royal dynasties, it is one great big jigsaw puzzle... However, Rebecca writes so well, it's just a lot of fun to read her... Such style and knowledge...
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
...Hannah Arendt
...Hannah Arendt
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Just finished White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, (2008). A good read, getting freedom, murder, some morality issues at a good pace in downtown India.
Now reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001), found it in the lobby.
India week for me.
Now reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001), found it in the lobby.
India week for me.
Never mind.
Haha,. yes bit of a struggle. He did impress me until I read somewhere parts of the book weren't factual at all.
I do have a soft spot for guys who break out of prison, though.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys" - KiR
Reading 'The Home-built Dynamo' by A T Forbes.
Dynamo design and construction with ceramic magnets. Should keep me out of trouble for a while.
Dynamo design and construction with ceramic magnets. Should keep me out of trouble for a while.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys" - KiR
Read White Tiger a year or so ago when a house guest left it for me. Very entertaining read.
Currently reading Shogun by James Clavel. It's the first of his Asian sagas. Should keep me out of the bookshops for a while.
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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