I'm back home after going to a noisy echo-y bar. If you have never heard of Mao's little red book, look it up. It's not very long. Mao says many times that Marxism Leninism is his guide. I used to feel sorry for people who believed this stuff.

Genuine progress is constituted not by the triumph of one side and the defeat of the other, but by the duel itself which necessarily involves the destruction of both... Marx.

Has anyone started reading Dan Brown's new book the secret of secrets? I have, the hardback was on sale for half off and seems to be a good read me and my son can enjoy since we read the others together. There is a lot of interesting historical stuff here, and some new scientific

Just started reading Gone With the Wind. In the first paragraph we read about Scarlett O'hara: "...her magnolia-white skin - that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittons against hot Georgia suns."

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky... Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie within every human being, looked outward-pushed ever outward... This is the opening of "The Sirens of Titan" Vonnegut, 1959. Library.

Now and then a fellow gets to thinking about it. Not often, though, which is a good thing. For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking ... From As I lay Dying. Recommended

"Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward."

Just started reading Cutting for Stone. Very selective in what I read but early on this seems like a good choice. " ...you are an instrument of God, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored."