Hmm...

[scottobear]

twinstar dropped me as a friend....I wonder why? too many wordy postings perhaps? ah well, I still quite enjoy her posts and will continue to read them that be public. Getting together with Danny tomorrow... 9 am to about 6 pm. Shopping, maybe a little drinking, and shooting the breeze. One of the last chances before he goes on summer vacation, really. Going to get new shoes, a hard drive, and about 4 beers, I feel. (plus get Danny something for his Birthday, poor shmoe was born within 2 weeks of Christmas. He should celebrate birthday or Christmas in August, methinks.) Spent some wonderful time with Ornj tonight... :) *sigh of happiness* Maybe I can squeak in some aoK in too, to make the night perfect...

Recently Finished Book -
'The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery', by Amitav Ghosh.

Set in India, the book is about the 'secret history' behind the discovery of the malaria vaccine. There's an Indian cult for whom secrecy is not only a need, is also one of their key beliefs: They are convinced that the act of revealing information means that same information is changed. So certain information can be revealed in a certain way, to generate specific changes. And their big secret is a bizarre form of immortality, a sort of 'memory transfer' using a mutated malaria parasite to backup and rewrite neural structures.

The entire novel is written like a puzzle: Pieces of info are revealed in different times to different characters; by the end of the novel, the main characters - and the reader - understand the whole picture, or at least, the part of the picture they were supposed to understand. The book is rather good (though once finished, a second read may be needed (to fully understand the plot) and I recommend it heartily.



All You Need Is Love
By John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game,
It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time,
It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be, that isn't where you're meant to be,
It's easy.

Comments

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

Evening, Scotto, sounds like you had a really nice night! blessings. *smile*

Re:

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

*hug*

Thanks Maura!

Oh, I got the card I sent you for holidays back in the mail today... :(

Sorry...

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

you sent me a card?? snail or e- mail??

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

snail... replied to the addy on the sigmund tape.

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

That's awfully strange!! I know I posted it right!! Hmmmm mail man must not have liked his boxing day card. *pout*

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hmm... I'll try launching it again! :)

My favorite line ...

[razz.livejournal.com]

The best part of the song is at the end when they start singing, "She loves you, yeah yeah yeah, she loves you, yeah yeah yeah ... "

Re: My favorite line ...

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

That's a spiffy bit, I agree...

I think my fave line is "Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time, It's easy"

but you gained a new one...

[shoo.livejournal.com]

ME ;P
I added you yesterday Scotto cuz you are frinds of many of my friends...I have read some of your posts and you seem like a very nice, warmfuzzy, in~love kind of guy....and I like nice people....=)
I am looking forward to your postings..

Shoo

Re: but you gained a new one...

[krussell.livejournal.com]

fancy meeting you here, shooshoo!

and you're right--scotto is wonderful! and a james ellroy fan!

Re: but you gained a new one...

[shoo.livejournal.com]

hey kathleen..thanks to you, I have some really great friends...
now what do you want me to do with this "Specials" cd?...=)

Re: but you gained a new one...

[krussell.livejournal.com]

oh! i forgot about that! mail it to me? i'll send you my address.

Re: but you gained a new one...

[shoo.livejournal.com]

okay...

Re: but you gained a new one...

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

THank you, and Yes, I dig Ellroy! :)

Re: but you gained a new one...

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hey Shoo! I love the shmoo-pic :) welcome to the family, and I hope you have a great time here! lots of sweeties around... :)

Ghosh

[gael.livejournal.com]

You got me curious about the Ghosh book, so I looked him up. I thought this was interesting:

'Amitav Ghosh is an Indian-born writer and anthropologist who writes "fabulist," or science fiction. He considers this genre part of the literary mainstream - one that encompasses such varied works as the 2,000-year-old Babylonian epic, "Gilgamesh," replete with mythic elements, and the recent movie "Groundhog Day," where time is severed from cause and effect.'

I agree that science fiction can be literary, but so many people look down their noses at it. (Btw, the artwork on the bookcover reminds me of my hubby's creations on snarg.net)

Have you read any Umberto Eco? My mom recently gave me Foucault's Pendulum by him and from the blurb on the cover and a quick leaf-through it also sounds intricately plotted. She said there was too much science in it for her tastes, although she really liked his best-seller The Name of the Rose - which I've yet to read, too!

Thanks for the book recommendation. :)

Re: Ghosh

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Oooh.. Foucault's Pendulum is fantastic :) At least, I thought so. I know Scottobear has read it too (funny the things you learn about people here!). I do so hope you enjoy it :) (I personally liked Pendulum better than Name of the Rose, though perhaps Rose deserves a reread, as my tastes have improved since I last perused it, I think.)

Re: Ghosh

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

get to it, sooner or later, Lefty. :) I think you'll dig it, despite (or maybe even because of) it's ponderousness...

Re: Ghosh

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Heh. yup, you caught me. I did indeed like it, too. I'm variable, but preferred Pundulum too, mainly because of the wacky rosicrucian/mason stuff...

Re: Ghosh

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Oh, I quite like Eco... I wish that I could read his original italian writings, but sadly, I'm not devoted enough to learn fluent italian for the effort... Pendulum was a great book, however, and Rose was also quite good... I got into reading his stuff from 'rose's movie... quite welcome for the reccomend! thank you for looking into it... I don't know if I've told you, but I dig snarg.net a lot, from what I've seen. :) good company to be in!