February 2010
2 posts
“We live in a culture that sees extreme exercise as crazy,” Dr. Bramble...”
– Just read, and enjoyed, Chris McDougall’s “Born to Run”. Here’s my review of it, on Goodreads
I just read this passage from 2666:
“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby Dick… What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the...