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Bought two paperbacks at the second-hand bookstore: _Get Shorty_ by Elmore
Leonard and _Whiteout_ by Ken Follett.

No more philosophy and political theory books for me. I'm a different person
now. And it's only the world that loses something from my having changed. I
actually gain some peace of mind and shedding of responsibility.

The Leonard novel cost only 50 cents. If you're able to read and have a
second-hand bookshop nearby, it's supremely cheap entertainment.

Before you give up on nonfiction, there is a book that really gets
your head together, "Living Systems" by James Miller.
The collective armed forces got together and tried to simulate
World War III on computer. They lost.
They hired an efficiency expert, a general systems dynamics
engineer, James Miller to find out why. The main answer was that they
had been too nit picking.
The word "satisfice" was coined, and it means just getting by,
good enough. This is the remedy for nit picking.
James Miller then wrote his book "Living Systems". In it, it is
explained that there are seven levels of living systems: cells, organs,
organisms (like us, cats, dogs, etc.), groups (like families),
organizations, societies, and suprasocietal living systems.
Each one depends on 19 subsystems. This is nothing new, and before
in history, 21 subsystems had been catagorized.
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"Huis Clos" <email@skruud.com> wrote in message
news:06TPj.122454$fB7.27843@en-nntp-06.dc1.easynews.com...
> Bought two paperbacks at the second-hand bookstore: _Get Shorty_ by Elmore
> Leonard and _Whiteout_ by Ken Follett.
>
> No more philosophy and political theory books for me. I'm a different
> person now. And it's only the world that loses something from my having
> changed. I actually gain some peace of mind and shedding of
> responsibility.
>
> The Leonard novel cost only 50 cents. If you're able to read and have a
> second-hand bookshop nearby, it's supremely cheap entertainment.
>

Used books are, indeed, good value.

"Quiet Neighbor" <private@spamless.net> wrote in message
news:9q2dnUqJZbeDIY3VnZ2dnUVZ_uCdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>
> "Huis Clos" <email@skruud.com> wrote in message
> news:06TPj.122454$fB7.27843@en-nntp-06.dc1.easynews.com...
>> Bought two paperbacks at the second-hand bookstore: _Get Shorty_ by
>> Elmore Leonard and _Whiteout_ by Ken Follett.
>>
>> No more philosophy and political theory books for me. I'm a different
>> person now. And it's only the world that loses something from my having
>> changed. I actually gain some peace of mind and shedding of
>> responsibility.
>>
>> The Leonard novel cost only 50 cents. If you're able to read and have a
>> second-hand bookshop nearby, it's supremely cheap entertainment.
>>
>
> Used books are, indeed, good value.

It actually helps that my critical reading skills have completely
deteriorated. I'm able to glide across the surface of a book and use it as a
timewaster instead of getting hung up on bad writing or bad pop psychology.
Just don't ask me to read anything that requires some thought and
engagement!

Share as much, there's an interesting fountain that so many books would
model. I used to have this coin from the Roman empire I got in Italy from
the bordering Austian territories. It was sealed in a paper plastic card.
It held the ages of in its corrosion. The times that it was corroded, I'd
imagine it would pay for a token.

Patrick Ashley Meuser"-Bianca"
Cyberneticist
http://www.usag-ac.info
"Huis Clos" <email@skruud.com> wrote in message
news:06TPj.122454$fB7.27843@en-nntp-06.dc1.easynews.com...
> Bought two paperbacks at the second-hand bookstore: _Get Shorty_ by Elmore
> Leonard and _Whiteout_ by Ken Follett.
>
> No more philosophy and political theory books for me. I'm a different
> person now. And it's only the world that loses something from my having
> changed. I actually gain some peace of mind and shedding of
> responsibility.
>
> The Leonard novel cost only 50 cents. If you're able to read and have a
> second-hand bookshop nearby, it's supremely cheap entertainment.
>

"Patrick Meuser-Bianca" <pmeuser-bianca@usag-ac.info> wrote in message
news:YSk6k.8778$Ec.2638@read2.cgocable.net...
> Share as much, there's an interesting fountain that so many books would
> model. I used to have this coin from the Roman empire I got in Italy from
> the bordering Austian territories. It was sealed in a paper plastic card.
> It held the ages of in its corrosion. The times that it was corroded, I'd
> imagine it would pay for a token.

Sounds like a touristy item that I'd actually bother to buy. But, back in
the days of the Roman Empire, people on this continent were running around
in loincloths.

>
> Patrick Ashley Meuser"-Bianca"
> Cyberneticist
> http://www.usag-ac.info
> "Huis Clos" <email@skruud.com> wrote in message
> news:06TPj.122454$fB7.27843@en-nntp-06.dc1.easynews.com...
>> Bought two paperbacks at the second-hand bookstore: _Get Shorty_ by
>> Elmore Leonard and _Whiteout_ by Ken Follett.
>>
>> No more philosophy and political theory books for me. I'm a different
>> person now. And it's only the world that loses something from my having
>> changed. I actually gain some peace of mind and shedding of
>> responsibility.
>>
>> The Leonard novel cost only 50 cents. If you're able to read and have a
>> second-hand bookshop nearby, it's supremely cheap entertainment.
>>
>
>