I’m trying to finish my bucket list, which includes read 100 books in a year. I’m mostly focusing on classes so far, and I’m starting to get a bit of a reader’s block. What should I read next? (I’ve only read 45 books so far this year)
INTRODUCTION-THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK CHRIS VAN ALLSBURGGizem
I first saw the drawings in this book a year ago, in the home of a man named
Peter Wenders. Though Mr. Wenders is retired now, he once worked for a
children's book publisher, choosing the stories and pictures that would be turned into books. Thirty years ago a man called at Peter Wenders's office, introducing himself as Harris Burdick. Mr. Burdick explained that he had written fourteen stories and had drawn many pictures for each one. He'd brought with him just one drawing from each story, to see if Wenders liked his work. Peter Wenders was fascinated by the drawings. He told Burdick he would like to read the stories that went with them as soon as possible. The artist agreed to bring the stories the next morning. He left the fourteen drawings with Wenders. But he did not return the next day. Or the day after that. Harris Burdick was never heard from again. Over the years, Wenders tried to find out who Burdick was and what had happened to him, but he discovered nothing. To this day Harris Burdick remains a complete mystery.
His disappearance is not the only mystery left behind. Wmat were the stories that went with these drawings? There are some clues. Burdick had written a title and caption for each picture. WTien I told Peter Wenders how difficult it was to look at the drawings and their captions without imagining a story, he smiled and left the room. He returned with a dust-covered cardboard box. Inside were dozens of stories, all inspired by the Burdick drawings. They'd been written years ago by Wenders's children and their friends. I spent the rest of my visit reading these stories. They were remarkable, some bizarre, some funny, some downright scary. In the hope that other children will be inspired by them, the Burdick drawings are reproduced here for the first
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"I am happy," you replied with a smile so soft that if I hadn't known you for years, I would have believed it. You leaned in to light the cigarette between your lips. One of the many vices you had willingly decided to adopt. Forcing them into your life as a way to disguise whatever other vices you had been hidding. "Why wouldn't I be?" You looked away so I couldn't meet your eyes. Even when your whole face and body believed your lies, your eyes didn't.
Faker.
"Out of all the things you are shit at," I said standing up. You looked at me, half laughing, half wondering what I was going to say next. "Lying is the one you suck at the most."
You leaned back, both palms on the ground, your head tilted back facing the sky. Your eyes closed telling me that I might as well leave.
"What a rude little thing you are."
Laughing. Smiling. Like you didn't care. Faker.
"I'm leaving now." You stopped smiling, but you weren't careless enough to let the rest of you know how bothered you were. "I hope you find the happiness you've been pretending to have."
Consistency? I don't know her.
I'm currently reading No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. I really really wanted to like it, but... I think I hate it. I'll let you know once I finish it. What are you currently reading?
Kaen.
Konuyla ilgilenenler ve kitapla ilgili fikir sahibi olmak isteyenler için Alfred R. Mele'nin "Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will" kitabından aldığım not ve alıntıları ekliyorum.
There are two main scientific arguments today against the existence of free will. One comes from neurosci-ence. Its basic claim is that all our decisions are made unconsciously and therefore not freely. The other argu-ment comes from social psychology. This time, the basic claim is that factors of which we are unaware have such a powerful influence on our behavior that no room remains for free will.
* Justifying punishment *
* Moral responsibility *
* Determinism *
"Libet believed that once we become aware of our decisions or intentions to do some-thing right away, we have about a tenth of a second to veto them; he thought free will might play a role in vetoing. As someone put it, Libet believed that although we don’t have free will, we do have free won’t."
—might have signaled a potential step along the way to a decision to flex, a step that sometimes or often doesn’t result in a decision and doesn’t result in a flexing. Again, for all we know, on some occasions—maybe many—there was a rise at time R and no associated flexing action
The task is to flex a wrist without con-sciously thinking about when to do it. If we want to know whether conscious reasoning ever plays a role in produc-ing decisions, we shouldn’t restrict our attention to situa-tions in which people are instructed not to think about what to.
First, if Libet’s participants never intended to flex when the spot reached the nine o’clock point, then his veto experiment doesn’t prove that we have the power to veto our inten-tions. And I bet they didn’t intend to flex.
Libet’s argument in a nutshell
1. The participants in