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Posted by surprisetalk 3 hours ago

Seven books I keep close because I love them(blog.plover.com)
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burnto 1 hour ago|
What an inspiring post! So much surprise and depth in each selection.
Razengan 3 hours ago||
I just need The Wind in the Willows :)
stiiv 3 hours ago|
When is the best time of year to read it?
Razengan 2 hours ago||
When you're trying to fall asleep but there is too much noise in your head, I suppose :)

Actually, Redwall and other slightly-mature anthropomorphic stories are also surprisingly good for that.

But if I had to pick a time of year, then I'd say winter, under the blankets or by a fire.

embeng4096 37 minutes ago|||
Redwall mentioned!

Brian Jacques' other series Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is also very good.

Razengan 47 minutes ago|||
Oh I forgot to say "as an audiobook" for the falling asleep to part
bbkane 2 hours ago||
> For example, Moses is easy to recognize at lower right, because of the glowing horns

I'm sorry, what? Why is Moses depicted with glowing horns?

pavel_lishin 2 hours ago|
Yeah, I thought he was easily recognizable because he's holding stone tablets.

But apparently it is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horns_of_Moses

> The Horns of Moses are an iconographic convention common in Latin Christianity whereby Moses was presented as having two horns on his head, later replaced by rays of light.[1] The idea comes from a translation, or mistranslation, of a Hebrew term in Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible, and many later vernacular translations dependent on that. Moses is said to be "horned", or radiant, or glorified, after he sees God who presents him with the tablets of the law in the Book of Exodus.

waffletower 3 hours ago||
A sequel that diverges from and dwarfs its predecessor -- Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (translated into English) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816614028/a-thousand-plateaus...
mjd 3 hours ago||
And I bet you won't guess what any of them are.
rzzzt 3 hours ago|
Number #8 will surprise you!

I keep a computer graphics book that I'm reading over and over again, just one chapter that is concerned with physically-based rendering. By now the theory is getting so ingrained I could write a path tracer in my sleep! But then again, I don't want to.

mjd 3 hours ago||
The current front-runner is “The Crazy Ape” by Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering ascorbic acid.

It's about how war is perpetrated by the old against the young. I've carried it next to my heart since I was fourteen.

Also, it's quite short and will definitely fit in the space.

A bit more about it: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/116411220100252049

hnfvovpje4 2 hours ago||
Ah the classic
hnnbxu2nwi 3 hours ago||
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xerox13ster 2 hours ago|
Get the data off those drives now, rather than later. The longer you hope to get the data, the more hopeless it will be.