“You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
Except the one in which you belong.”David Whyte
Saturday
Sleep in.
Gym.
Groundhog day.
“Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.”
Phil Connors
I finally finished Moby Dick. It was a painful process, a 400 page book that was somehow stretched to 800.
If it was half the length it would be twice the read.
I am not sure what I am missing. I stand by my previous opinion, with Russia, France and the UK turning out masterpieces in this era, the US was desperate for a literary hero. They got Melville.
Had they waited a decade or two, their champion would have arrived in Mark Twain.
Next on the list – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
We listen to a podcast. Sam Harris speaking with Yuval Noah Harari.
Yuval has been doing the rounds since his first book, Sapiens, was released in 2011.
I am not sure why I didn’t read it. His follow up to Sapiens was Homo Deus in 2017.
Harari has just released Nexus. although these three books are not technically a series, they all follow a similar theme.
I enjoyed the conversation with Harris and have decided to take a break from Aristotle and start reading Sapiens.
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
Yuval Noah Harari
Sunday
Gym.
Work tomorrow.
I prep my food for the week.
Read.
Bed.
Work tomorrow.
What if I stay?
“They might ignore me immediately
In my moon suit and funeral veil.
I am no source of honey
So why should they turn on me?
Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.The box is only temporary.”
Sylvia Plath