![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a folio edition of the classic travel book. With great care and love, Mr Dalrymple takes out a handsome hardbound of Chatwin’s In Patagonia from a shelf. Many of Mr Dalrymple’s other books - chiefly on Scotland and Middle-East - are at his second home in Chiswick, London.Īmong writers, our foreign-born Delhi chronicler is especially fond of the late Bruce Chatwin, who was also a “dear friend”. Even the swimming pool shed has its share of bookshelves, and the toilet is so highbrow that it has The New York Review of Books lying by the bathtub. One afternoon, we enter the library of Scotland-born William Dalrymple, author of the famous City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi. His works on the history of India are globally acclaimed.(Mayank Austen Soofi/HT Photo) Author William Dalrymple first came to India on January 26, 1984. He also rules over a large population of goats, including Petunia, given to him by environmentalist Pradip Krishen. His empire at Mira Singh Farm, on the outskirts of Delhi, teems with Polish chickens and Scottish bantams. ![]()
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Godzilla have taught us nothing else, it's that everything is somehow better in battle format. Movie I, Robot By Kim Hollis July 28, 2004 ![]() ![]() ![]() Explanatory notes help the reader to navigate Pindar's sometimes compressed and allusive expressive technique.Ībout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. The text is complemented by a succinct introduction by Stephen Instone outlining the essential nature of Pindar's Odes as well as explaining the nature of the Games, the events, and the participants. Pindar's startling use of language, including striking metaphors, bold syntax, and enigmatic expressions, makes reading his poetry a uniquely rewarding experience.Īnthony Verity's lucid translations stay as close as they can to the original Greek, without sacrificing readability. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths, such as Jason and the Argonauts, and Perseus and Medusa, and are a valuable source for insights on Greek religion and ethics. ![]() Pindar praises the victor by comparing him to mythical heroes and the gods, but also reminds the athlete of his human limitations. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and his Odes are fascinating not only for their poetic qualities, but for what they tell us about the Games. ![]() 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. ![]() ![]() Early on, critics characterized his writing as being ergodic literature, and Danielewski has described his style as: Sometimes known as visual writing, the typographical variation corresponds directly, at any given narratological point in time, to the physical space of the events in the fictional world as well as the physical space of the page and the reader. ĭanielewski began work on a 27-volume series, The Familiar, although he completed only 5 volumes before halting the project in 2017.ĭanielewski's work is characterized by an intricate, multi-layered typographical variation, or page layout, which he refers to as "signiconic". His second novel, Only Revolutions (2006), was nominated for the National Book Award. He is most widely known for his debut novel House of Leaves (2000), which won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. Danielewski ( / ˈ d æ n i ə l ɛ f s k i/ born March 5, 1966) is an American fiction author. ![]() House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May ![]() ![]() Postmodern, ergodic literature, signiconic literature ![]() ![]() Subsequent to the arrangement of Aristotle's works by Andronicus of Rhodes in the first century BC, a number of his treatises were referred to as the writings "after (" meta") the Physics.", the origin of the current title for the collection Metaphysics. Many of Aristotle's works are extremely compressed and thus baffling to beginners, and many scholars believe that in their current form, they are little more than lecture notes. The work is a compilation of various texts treating abstract subjects, notably substance theory, different kinds of causation, form and matter, the existence of mathematical objects and the cosmos, which together constitute much of the branch of philosophy later known as metaphysics. Metaphysics ( Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics" Latin: Metaphysica ) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops the doctrine that he calls First Philosophy. ![]() ![]() I mentioned in my introduction to this series that I’m not a huge fan of the whole self-help/business-mindset genre. I feel like you can’t listen to a business or investing podcast without someone mentioning it as being a book that hugely influenced them and their thinking. ![]() Like the first book I read this year ( How to Win Friends & Influence People), I chose Think and Grow Rich! because it’s a classic. 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