Today I went to Half Price books in search of enlightenment. Hopefully I found some. This is what I got:
Franz Kafka: the metamorphosis, in the penal colony, and other stories.
Plato : Republic
Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good And Evil.
I really hope that these turn out to be fulfilling reads. I have read a little of Kafka before (okay, it was a comic book adaptation of the metamorphosis but I am still counting it). I once owned a copy of Republic but I never finished it, I would like to think that my attention span has grown since then so I think I will give it another go. And as far as Nietzsche is concerned I just wanted to see what the big deal was.
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The Film "Papillon" is on AMC right now I always seem to come in at the same scene where Papillon (Steve McQueen) is in solitary confinement and the warden wants him to sell out someone who is sneaking extra food to him (Dega, who is played by Dustin Hoffman but the warden doesn't know that ). Later on in the film Dega finds out the Papillon is being squeezed for information from a fellow inmate. The inmate asks him "If he talks would you blame him?" and Dega Replies "Blame is for God and small children." I like that.
I may post later. I don't have much else to do.
1 comment:
honestly-seeing you purchase a book titled "in the penal colony" sounds dirtier that hillary saying "caucus myself"-lol.
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