Book I “How long should we submit to the rules of the game? As long as it serves my turn, and I find the part congenial. Some dour, inflexible types will say, ‘I can’t eat at this man’s table if it means listening to war stories again: “I told you, friend, how I scrambled up […]
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Bhagavad Gita (-200) Translation by Stephen Mitchell
“As unnecessary as a well is to a village on the banks of river,so unnecessary are all scripturesto someone who has seen the truth.” {Humility or self-referential undermining? Either way I like it.} *** “What a great man doesordinary people will do;whatever standard he setseveryone else will follow. In all the three worlds, Arjuna,there is […]
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Ernest Hemingway
A classic for a reason and a bargain at 127 pages. The style fits the story. Hemingway’s prose never breaks character. The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea […]