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miki d'kolan: May 2016
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Sunday, May 8, 2016. PhKDick, "The man in the high castle". Reading of this book was a travel in time, not only beacuse it moved me to some alternative space-time, but also because of shifting me for some 30 years in my private time-the time when I read it the first time. I lived in so different a world then, that thinking of it seems equally imaginary as this novel's story. Superb story, with a quality above mere story-telling. Alternative history? Thursday, May 5, 2016. I read it first some 25 years ag...
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miki d'kolan: March 2016
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Sunday, March 20, 2016. Necessary a post-humous publication, probably not even meant to be else, since it is full of "non-acceptable" (at his time) details, like his homosexuality, and ofen using the service of street whores, male or female, or being involved into hazardous street-sex encounters, which even brought him some visits to local police stations. I was attracted to the book by the possibilty to know more about the author, whom I appreciate for independence of thought when it was not at all simp...
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miki d'kolan: Ferdydurke
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Thursday, May 5, 2016. Reading of Witold Gombrowicz's "Kronos" motivated me to re-read some of his works again. Nothing more logical than going for his first, "Ferdydurke". I read it first some 25 years ago, in Croatian translation, and later also in Polish original, probably this very example I read this time. As usual, the book is the same, the reader changes. When in my first reading I was a pup-pup-pupil myself, which could. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Miki, Kolan Pag. My blog in Croatian, as...
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miki d'kolan: Ph.K.Dick, "The man in the high castle"
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Sunday, May 8, 2016. PhKDick, "The man in the high castle". Reading of this book was a travel in time, not only beacuse it moved me to some alternative space-time, but also because of shifting me for some 30 years in my private time-the time when I read it the first time. I lived in so different a world then, that thinking of it seems equally imaginary as this novel's story. Superb story, with a quality above mere story-telling. Alternative history? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Miki, Kolan Pag.
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miki d'kolan: December 2015
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Saturday, December 26, 2015. S Jobs Biography by Walter Isaacson. Old good Marxistic method is that one should know his enemy. Being a good pupil in the Titoistic times of former Yu, I am definitely a purest of Marxists. I am certainly a promoter of Open Source and I chant with Richard Stallman in praise of free software, following the thorny path of St. IGNUcius: "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.". Weird Someone should be fired! Oh yes, sure, but for what a price? The simples...
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miki d'kolan: October 2015
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015. Elif Shafak: "The Gaze". A bit different work from others I read until now by E.S. At the beginning it did not stick to me, but as I continued, it started to uncover its value. It grows in me as a kind of investigative novel. It is a story with insight into the world of distorted vision, not of the eye, but of the soul. A distorsion more painful, and more haunting, because of its permanence, than actual broken bone or psychological condition. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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miki d'kolan: Farewell
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016. To conceive a verse,. One needs to learn. Love, smile and joy,. In this time of a hunt. For the ghosts of real life,. They seem as luxuries. When a friend, be it,. In this carmic cycle,. A dog, a frog or a human,. Leaps into eternity,. Give it a soothing kiss. And merely a "bye". Measured in the scale of stars,. You will follow in no time. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Miki, Kolan Pag. My Taiwan blog, mikidtaiwan. My Greek blog, mikidhellas. My blog in Croatian, astrosailor.
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miki d'kolan: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. I found this small collection of Lu Xun's short stories at the marvellous 2nd hand bookmarket in Rue Brancion near Porte de Vanves Metro in Paris XVe. Naturally, most of books is in French, but there is also some choice of English books, most of Far East provenience. A place worth visiting, if you are into such things. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Miki, Kolan Pag. My Taiwan blog, mikidtaiwan. My Greek blog, mikidhellas. My blog in Croatian, astrosailor. View my complete profile.
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miki d'kolan: November 2015
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Sunday, November 15, 2015. The Zen Experience" by Thomas Hoover. There are many books on Zen, one could say it is even too many for a topic which is nontransferrable by words. Still, T. Hoover wrote an excellent, readable historical book on it. Probably it is because he wrote it without going too much into the devotional moments. Of the later masters in Japan, he revealed for me the magnificence of Hakuin. I was not aware of his so many achievements. He was definitely a material for the CEO, with...If yo...
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miki d'kolan: June 2015
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Thursday, June 11, 2015. In the past, I tried few times to approach Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations", but somehow it did not stick with me. I always thought it strange, as in general I acquiesce with Stoic philosophy and am sympathetic with their minimalism regarding demands from the world. So, it took me almost half a century to mature to Marcus Aurelius. Not bad. I definitely admire Marcus' being so down to earth a man, when he could bask in the purpury and not give a damn about posterity, or those befor...
