A conversation between a small girl (Scout) and her father (Atticus) from To Kill A Mockingbird:
“Do you defend niggers, Atticus?” I asked him that evening.
“Of course I do. Don’t say nigger, Scout. That’s common.”
“ ‘s what everybody at school says.”
“From now on it’ll be everybody less one.”
Category Archives: books
The Power Of One
An Equal Music: Book Review
I’m not much of a fiction literature guy. In fact, you could say I’m fictionally illiterate. When I read blogs with prominent bookshelves, or ‘Literary Experiments’ in the tag line, I get an inferiority complex. My Unquiet Mind has to confront the reality that I’m pretty much a moron when it comes to …
Sharing My Bookshelf
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. — Jerry Seinfeld
For the past several weeks, I have been mulling over adding a “Reading Room” widget to my sidebar where I can list the books I’ve just read and plan to read …
Digitizing Ancient Indian Manuscripts
A day after I wrote about Google digitizing and indexing Mysore University’s manuscripts, I came across this in Dataquest!
India, a land of ancient knowledge, has the largest collection of manuscripts in the world dating back thousands of years, covering different areas including religion, philosophy, science, medicine, arts and literature. Composed in various ancient and contemporary …
Himalaya: Personal Stories of Grandeur, Challenge, and Hope
“To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one’s distance. To understand its form, one must move around it. To experience the moods, one must see it at sunrise and sunset, at noon and at midnight, in sun and in rain, in snow and in storm, in summer and in winter and in …
iNTj Rational Mastermind & Analyst Style of Thinking in InQ
This is a follow-up to my earlier post about the MBTI personality type — iNTj Rational Mastermind.
I want to move further and explore how MBTI contrasts with InQ, the Inquiry Mode Questionnaire, more popularly known as “Styles of Thinking”. The InQ was developed by Allen Harrison and Robert Bramson, who wrote a book on it: “The Art of Thinking”.
The …
Knots by R. D. Laing
Jack likes my blog
Therefore I like Jack
Jill doesn’t like my blog
Therefore I don’t like Jill
Jack likes Jill
Jill doesn’t like my blog
They have a fight
Jack doesn’t like Jill
I love Jack for not liking Jill
Jill hates me for making Jack not like her
I hate Jill for hating me
Jack loves me
With me so far? I don’t think so, but if you are, you must read …
