. . . or at least shorter.
THE books which defined the way The West thinks now…
In their own words… but condensed and abridged into something
like readable
I love it. All the philosophy and none of the verbiage. 🙂
They also do squashed divines and squashed writers. I was hoping to finally read Ulysses but the books stop at 1915.
casa azahar 
I’ll bookmark it. even the squashed versions are gonna take more time than I’ve got right now 🙂
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It’s more fun to work it out for yourself first, anyway.
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… Somehow … isn’t this … a bit like … fast food? Well, maybe not. This is doubtless more nutritious.
p.s. nursemyra, your avatar is the first ever to make me want to go hide quietly in a corner.
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Well I don’t know about squashed but if you want to read Ulysses you can get a free PDF copy from PlanetPDF or more specifically here.
Oh and I agree with Nog btw. 😀
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if the avatar is scary you won’t want to visit the blog 🙂
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Ulysses online??? 😯
I have trouble reading more than a half-page of text on my computer screen. Anyhow, I’ve had the book for years but have never managed to get past about page 42.
I was about to issue a similar warning to ombudsben, nursemyra. 😉
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LOL. You mean that’s the trouble. I thought you couldn’t find the book. lol. Well I have had it for the past one year sitting on my HDD but haven’t read more than a para because it was booooooring.
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Yeah, but it would probably make a good doorstop.
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Did you know that the term “quark” comes from Ulysses – ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark’, and that a quark is actually a small cheese? So the moon really is made of cheese, just like everything else.
Oh, and books are not doorstops. Ever. Full Stop.
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N & A: Well, the nursemyra blog is different from the av. Here in the US we have such a bizarre ambivalence about sex. On the one hand, we’re essentially bombarded with soft porn on TV, especially commercials but also the programming. Yet anything harder is such a taboo it begs looking into — as if teenage boys weren’t already fascinated.
My Dad subscribed to Playboy (I think in part as a reaction against his church-upbringing, but also a sort of liberalness) so I saw all the images by the time I was 12. I still remember, ferrinstance, the photo essay they once did on the marquis de sade. A kinky fellow, indeed.
But the hypodermic needle is, well, a different sort of attention-getter, no?
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Unless it’s Janet Jackson’s tit, apparently.
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Well, ambivalence is often contrary. Yeah, that’s the kind of thing that becomes far more important than it ought.
Even worse, the righteous Christian coalition types were the ones who were plastering the words “oral sex” all over the front page during the Monica Lewinsky absurdities.
Real concern for the kiddies there. “Mommy, Daddy” kid looks up from the newspaper. “What’s a blow job?”
I guess exposing kids to sex is okay if it’s on the right-wing agenda.
I miss Bill.
But then, given what’s going on now, I miss Lewinsky as an “issue,” too.
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