Helen De Cruz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Helen De Cruz

@andytowne @nescio13 @gwen_h_marshall @medrenliza @KennethLPearce I still need to do the worm-men which did not quite work out in earlier sketches (I'm hoping to do a more naturalistic version of Lowly Worm). Here's Cavendish + Empress together with the Kabbalah the Empress wrote (sort of inspired by John Dee's) https://t.co/RtL6c2Yfoz

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Flowers for Algernon is the short story that made Daniel Keyes famous (he also wrote a novel about it). Overall an interesting narrative voice and device. Also seems to me stories about mental disability fall into two tropes: tragedy (as here) or secret wisdom (eg Forrest Gump)

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My daughter (a high school senior) has just begun listening to the excellent audiobook version of Piranesi and hope she enjoys it! Few books evoke a kind of 18th c sublimity and secular mysticism, but Susanna Clarke does it--what a read.

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Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. I only began to read him a few years ago when the deep prejudice against him I got from my background began to wane. He has a very interesting later strand of ecophilosophy in his writing which I'm exploring now

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Inquiries of various sorts (example: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations) 9/ https://t.co/r5yAlBHPAI

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Re-reading Gulliver's Travels (Swift) for potential inclusion in an anthology, and I'm struck by the fact that the writing craft of old isn't quite up to standard of later works. Even e.g, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is so much better written and plotted.

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The very best referee reports I've received are those that give you reading recs of works you weren't familiar with (and this happens a lot, esp if it's a new topic). I'm now reading How Forests Think, by Eduardo Kohn, which among others draws on the weirder aspects of CS Peirce.

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Examples (books I've either read very recently or am reading, it could be a fluke they just all happen to use this trope) Marune: Alastor 933 by Jack Vance (1975) Amber chronicles by Zelazny (1970) The towers of February by Tonke Dragt (1975)

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@Eli_Rubin There must be (maybe @nescio13 knows of methodological discussions on how to adjudicate these claims). found this passage particularly striking. Roger Scruton, in his very short OUP book on Spinoza also discusses it here-- https://t.co/bjpPMWdCFW

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I could never warm to Hume. I *love* early modern philosophy. And I did read several of his works in detail. Idk I just cannot warm to his way of conceptualizing things. Though Dialogues concerning Natural Religion remains fun.

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