One Random Fact About You

[methodistgirl]

Mat, have you seen the colors of the sky when a tornado is brewing
before the cloud turns black. It's beautiful when some clouds are a
pale blue,pink, and a light green. It's really pretty with lightening
streaming across the sky with the electricity in the air.
judy tooley

[Mat]

Well, Judy. Here in Poland's mild climate we thankfully do not have tornados. But I think I know what you are reffering to. I saw few programmes on the Discovery Channel about tornados, storms and lightnings. And I know that you can see a "rainbow of colors" up in the sky before a storm or tornado. By the way, in my gallery you can see one of my pictures of lightning. Maybe not the best one but I'm still working on my photographic skills

[alexiakl]

I hate to dance but I love music..

[methodistgirl]

Some people have no talent at all when it comes to music.
judy tooley

[Kromme]

I think Martha Argerich is the greatest pianist alive.

[methodistgirl]

I love to play Mah Jong and Jewel Quest solitare. I'm interested in the
story that is unfolding in jewel quest.
judy tooley

[C5Says]

wow...it's nice to know a little about everyone at a time...

let me see...

- i've created more than a dozen blogs in one year

[Muza]

i want to read all the books in the world but never do
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[Corno Dolce]

Another random fact abot me:

I'm a great fan of Architectural History.

[Corno Dolce]

i want to read all the books in the world but never do
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Hi Muza,

May I humbly suggest the following reading list:

Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
Plato: Ion, Republic, Symposium
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Herodotus: Histories
Aristotle: Poetics, Rhetoric
Plutarch: Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Alcibiades, Aristides, Alexander)
Euripides: Hippolytus
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
Aristophanes: The Birds, The Clouds
Aristotle: Parts of Animals
Galen: On the Natural Faculties
Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, On Animal Generation
Mendel: Plant Hybridization
Plato: Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Porphyry: On the Predicaments (Isagoge)
Aristotle: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics
Vergil: Aeneid
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
Cicero: Offices
Plutarch: Lives (Marcellus, Tiberius & Caius Gracchus, Marius, Sylla, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Brutus
Tacitus: Annals
Epictetus: Manual
Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy
Dante: Divine Comedy
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Spencer: Faerie Queen
Plato: Timaeus
Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle: On the Soul
Gaunilo: On Behalf of the Fool
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses
Bacon: The Great Instauration
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Sonnets
Montaigne: Essays
Descartes: Discourse on Method, Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Hobbes: Leviathan
Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Essay on Civil Goverment
Berkeley: Treatise Concerning Human Understanding
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Milton: Paradise Lost
Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Corneille: Le Cid
Racine: Phaedre
Rousseau: Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Hamilton: Federalist Papers
Smith: Wealth of Nations
Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics
Boethius: On Music
Gustin: Tonality
Descartes: Principles of Philosophy
Galileo: Two New Sciences
Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Goethe: Faust
Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy of History
Flaubert: Three Tales
J.S. Mill: Utilitarianism
Melville: Billy Budd
Willa Cather: My Antonia
Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Austen: Emma
Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Jung: Analytical Psychology
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
Ibsen: A Doll's House
Dostoyevsky: Brothers Karamazov
Eliot: Ash Wednesday, Journey of the Magi, The Waste Land
Plato: Phaedrus
Vico: The New Science
Tocqueville: Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Husserl: The Idea of Phenomenology
Lincoln and Douglas: Debates
Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill
Jan Gullberg: Mathematics - From the Birth of Numbers
U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence (get just the text without commentaries)

Cheers,

CD

[Muza]

Wow brotha my jaw kinda dropped there for a second

You have way too much confidence in me, Corno but that list will not go unnoticed

[Corno Dolce]

Hello Sister Muza,

I got this list from a friend at Yale University - he called it the Great Books Curriculum - If you read these and mentally systematise them you'll be able to better analyse current events and fully take part in society as a concerned and informed citizen.

Respectfully and Humbly yours,

CD

[Muza]

yep, thats exactly what i thought well, im off to do the reading

[intet_at_tabe]

CD

Way to go!! ... and then you only suggested the books for beginners.

[methodistgirl]

You guy can be so funny! I have a good laugh after reading some of
your post. This time a list of books a mile long?
judy tooley