Comments for The Floating Library

Comment on Why is there so much bullshit? by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:08:48 +0000

The irony of an online article on Bullshit that is nearly flooded with bullshit advertisements and click-overs to facebook and twitter.

Maybe it’s not that there’s too much bullshit but more that what I consider bullshit may be potentially useful to someone else. What’s more is that what I consider bullshit now may not be in the future and whoever provides me with information may want to account for that uncertainty too.

The greatest bullshit of all: thinking your bullshit is more meaningful than anyone or anything else’s bullshit.

Comment on On Rigor in Science :: J. L. Borges by Frontiers of Design Science: Computational Irreducibility | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:55:42 +0000

[...] writer J. L. Borges wrote a wonderful one-paragraph story that illustrates this beautifully, “On Exactitude in Science”). So maps are useful because they are simpler — because they are [...]

Comment on That same evening, by a curious neatness of fate, I met Alison by Sineokov

Sineokov — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:16:27 +0000

It is indeed 'Mananzilla' at the end of chapter 6 of my copy of The Magus. BUT, I did notice quite a few typos while I was reading the book, so this may very well be yet another. Interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Comment on That same evening, by a curious neatness of fate, I met Alison by Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:43:47 +0000

I love this excerpt. However, I wanted to ask if you were certain that it was Mananzilla at the end and not Manzanilla — one, as far as I know, is a kind of olive, and the other is a wine.

Comment on Polarized by The Daily Beast - Blogs and …

The Daily Beast - Blogs and … — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:40:15 +0000

Technorati will give you a short code which you need to place in a new blog post. After that…it’s a waiting game. Technorati will inform you, via email, whether or not your blog has been verified.

Comment on Freedom by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:54:16 +0000

This needs constant reminding.

Comment on A French philosopher by Ken Russellken

Ken Russellken — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:58:17 +0000

but he has a cigarette… and he’s french! he *must* be a philosophe!

Comment on Sealed in Wax by Bernard Rose

Bernard Rose — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:06:53 +0000

My image as published in Prospect, photographed in 1980 in Somerset

Comment on A Clockwork Orange Resucked by stringfilter – A Clockwork Orange Resucked

stringfilter – A Clockwork Orange Resucked — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:08:35 +0000

[...] Much better than the book itself; the introduction is clear, honest, and insightful. [...]

Comment on A French philosopher by Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:41:57 +0000

BHL, philosopher? I am going to assume this is tongue-in-cheek.

Comment on The political limits on love by Beverly Penn

Beverly Penn — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:23:06 +0000

Stealing this quote!

Comment on Posthumous by Sineokov

Sineokov — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:50 +0000

I loved Infinite Jest: if you haven’t, read it. I’ve been saving The Pale King for a rainy day, and am just starting to dip into it. DFW is an expert at bending the rules of prose.

Comment on Posthumous by Beverly Penn

Beverly Penn — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:03:26 +0000

Wow. This is beautiful. I love his imagery, and it reads almost like a list prose-poem.

Comment on The Unknowable :: A Lover’s Discourse by The Unknowable « Death At the Mall

The Unknowable « Death At the Mall — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:19:10 +0000

[...] http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/09/21/the-unknowable/ [...]

Comment on The End of the World :: Archibald MacLeish by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:02:55 +0000

DATE and REFERENCE the poems!

Comment on Suicide: the one truly serious philosophical problem — Camus by University Diaries » Suicidology

University Diaries » Suicidology — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:04:07 +0000

[...] jumped off of his balcony during a fight with his wife. Some suicides, as Camus wrote, are “prepared within the silence of the heart” – but not [...]

Comment on The Maker (El Hacedor) :: J. L. Borges by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:57:17 +0000

A great great story. I like Andrew Hurley’s translation more though. Slightly more flow to it.

Comment on I am haunted by waters by Keelaay

Keelaay — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:31:33 +0000

The last passage of A River Runs Through It wells tears in my eyes upon every reading. This beautiful novella played a significant role in inspiring my personal journey into Christianity. The story set before me the concept of grace in an understandable and human form and presented to me the Trinity on an enduring human level. Grace is achievable for us in our everyday lives… as the Trinity is before us. And as imperfect beings, we ultimately fail to achieve grace, or sometimes to even witness it’s display before our own eyes. Hence we are haunted by the ever-moving and unstoppable waters of our lives.

Comment on The Noonday Demon by Sarpvinash

Sarpvinash — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:15:58 +0000

It is turtles all the way down

Comment on The Noonday Demon by Beverly Penn

Beverly Penn — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:14:11 +0000

Incredible. Staggering, really.