The Logic of Porcology

John Keats. Poet from the turn of the century 1795-1821.

How is it possible to create such beauty in only 26 years? Is it an artistic thing? Or is it a sign of the times? I don't expect to do anything great until my 30's, if at all.

Compared to Keats I am a failure and that makes me jealous.

I will be at the Calgary International Airport beginning on October 23rd at 6:00 am. If anyone would like to join me there I will be camping out near international arrivals.

Two more books to add:
Amir Aczel - The Mystery of the Aleph
Keith Devlin - The Millenium Problems

Sickness is leaving me. My head is clearing and I am able to spell my name again.

I'm at work. There is no work for me to do. I've checked all my accounts. No thing to do.

La La La. The La's. My head is sore. Too much sickness.

Comments have now been added to mine as well. Thanks in no way at all to the ever flowering Ms. B. Wright. I did choose to donate to enetation.com And I think you should too.

A couple books to add.

Le Carre - The Constant Gardener
Coupland - All Families are Psychotic

Chicago

Won several Oscars including Best Picture, did it not? I watched it last evening and I'm not sure I agree with Oscar.

The movie can be summed up in two scenes:
1. The Only innocent murderess' hanging
2. The Final song & dance number where the songstresses / murderesses both have guns.

No need to have the other hour and 30 minutes of film. So then why would such a long (and pointlessly so) movie have won so many Oscars? Perhaps it was the characters, some very memorable characters, static but memorable. Or perhaps it was the effects of the numerous dance scenes. Very memorable scenes, with catchy tunes and sexy players.

But maybe it is as I suspect. The Oscars are selected by random number generation by a computer nerd in Fresno. Conspiracy? You Bet!

Previous posting is a list of most of the books I've read in the past 6 years. I am not trying to seem arrogant, I just wanted to record it and this is a good way to do it.

If you know of other books I've read let me know. I am really slow so I'll get back to you much later.

Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
- Slaughterhouse Five
Huxley - Brave New World
- Island
Tolkien - The Hobbit
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Silmarillion
- Unfinished Tales
Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Orwell - 1984
Rowling - The entire Harry Potter series
Thompson - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Shelley - Frankenstein
Melville - Moby Dick
Dickens - Great Expectations
- A Tale of Two Cities
Zola - Ladies Paradise
Scott - Ivanhoe
Richler - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Clavell - King Rat
- Shogun
- Tai-Pan
- Whirlwind
- Noble House
Steinbeck - Of Mice & Men
- The Pearl
- Grapes of Wrath
- Travels with Charley
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Old Man & The Sea
Kerouac - On the Road
Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Dumas - The Three Musketeers
- The Count of Monte Cristo
Chang - The Rape of Nanking
Hoff - The Tao of Pooh
Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
- In Cold Blood
Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Card - Ender's Game
Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Wells - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Ferguson - Happiness (Generica)
Maor - e: The Story of a number
Richelson - A Century of Spies
Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
- Crime and Punishment
Clancy - The Sum of All Fears
- Executive Orders
- The Hunt for Red October
- Debt of Honor
- Rainbow Six
- Without Remorse
- The Bear and the Dragon
Irving - The World According to Garp
- The Ciderhouse Rules
Wells - Curious & Interesting Mathematics
Gribbin - In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
Cole - The Universe & the Teacup
Golding - Lord of the Flies
Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Chabot - Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem
Salsburg - The Lady Tasting Tea
Conrad - The Heart of Darkness