Non-Fiction

bemildred

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6. I've read the first two.

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 02:01 PM

Jan 2013

Very interesting stuff, but I would lose interest after a while when he'd wander off on his "human interest" material. I suppose that does say more about me than him.

I know just what you mean, as I sit here I am surrounded by piles of books: reference, failed ambitions, and ambitions not yet carried out. And more on the computer waiting for me to take a look at them.

I am very thick skinned, not to worry, if I'm annoyed it will not be ambiguous.

I consider it obvious that we are really a variety of ape with strange mental powers we developed in the course of our arms race with ourselves, and I consider it one of my main jobs in life to keep the little ape inside sedated, happy, and out of the way.

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