Currently reading
Taiga?s True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Melinda Takeuchi (1994-06-01)
The History of England, Vol 2
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle
Cicero: On Moral Ends (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Das Goldene Vlies: Dramatisches Gedicht in Drei Abteilungen
Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis
Notes from Underground & The Double
The World of Thought in Ancient China
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
The Legend of Gold and Other Stories
Ahhhh, books....
Stepping out of a timeless kayak in the Sea of Okhotsk, the only survivor of a doomed hunting trip, I find myself on mid-19th-century Kyushu watching the end of the Tokugawa bakufu. Then through the empty Kyrgyz steppes during WW II into a nearly contemporaneous dressing room in a Tokyo theater. Yet better than nonexistent teleportation/time machines, in books one is afforded direct insight into the inhabitants' minds. Please pass me the next one...
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