New Year's Resolution, No. 6
Read one book every month. Odd-numbered months are for nonfiction books, even-numbered months for fiction.
January happens to be an odd-numbered month, and this month's choice of intellectual snackage is Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Liz: So the book I'm reading is seven hundred pages long, and I should be reading at least 25 pages a day.While not strictly true, because I worked my way slowly and delicately through the twenty-odd page preface, I'm still behind schedule, even when allowing for the slip days I calculated in the event I didn't meet my quota.
Mei: How many pages have you read?
Liz: Eight.
But hey. It's only the fifth of a thirty-one day month, and I have seven days until school starts!
(In case anyone doubts my ability to keep my New Year's resolutions, I fulfilled my goal of running at least 1.5 miles a week--NYR No. 2(a)--this morning.)
posted by Gamera @ 6:24 PM
1 Comments:
don't wait to read this book. you won't get it when you read it and the longer you wait, the less you will understand. the more law you do the less you will understand. then again, maybe it doesn't matter how much you understand. and, after you read it, you will understand less and less, day by day, of what you thought you understood. this is complicated stuff. if you can keep it in your head, your head will probably explode. if your head doesn't explode, you will know too much about stuff that is utterly out there and isn't about people, and your brain will waste space on it. I suppose it is possible that your brain has room for this and other things as well. if so, wow. tell me in 30 years.
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