Breakfast With Parmenides - Who Reads This Stuff Anymore?
Let's see your Shelfie. "Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things; as well the unshaken heart of well-rounded truth as the opinions of mortals, in which is no true belief at all." - Parmenides I really love waking up to stuff like this in emails. The Venn diagram of my social circles would look like a bubble bath, but if you consider the whole bathtub you'll see I collect diverse and well-read people. Together our book collections could rebuild Alexandria . A young girl who called herself Stencil Fox suggested I read The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie . I was amazed. How could Salman Rushdie be world-famous? Could it really be that other people in the world, enough other people, like the same things I like? Do readers not only follow complex sentences but relish them? Sure, there was that fatwa-thing...and the hot wife with the cooking show. But really, are there enough lovers of words to redeem humanity from my judg(...