June 1, 2007
Remember to buy Ravel’s Starry Night.
Bought two used books: Szarkowski’s Looking At Photographs and Reading Photographs by Jonathan Bayer. They are in very good condition. Hope the owner didn’t sell them because of financial difficulties. Oscar Wilde said: 'When bankers get together they talk about art, when artists get together they talk about money.'
Finished Fear and Trembling a few days ago. Although it is Kierkegaard’s most famous book but there are other works of his that I like better. George Steiner’s introduction is superb. If I’m not mistaken he has also written the introduction to The Everyman’s Library edition of The Old Testament. I’ve planned to begin reading The Old Testament from September. After that I want to read The New Testament, and then Koran. I’m hoping to finish re-reading The Sorrows of Young Werther, Letters to a Young Poet, Kierkegaard’s Purity of Heart, and Schopenhauer’s Foundations of Ethics by the end of summer.
I’m at Strange Creek music festival in Greenfield. Full of hippies. Although I have my own views regarding their way of life but I’ve been having a great time. Especially last night when we were all gathering around the fire. Fire has mesmerizing effects. No wonder why the ancients held it as divine and sacred.
Posted by amin at June 1, 2007 2:47 PM