Re: A favorite book of Anders from his childhood

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 16:12:20 MDT


"john grigg" <starman125@hotmail.com> writes:

> Anders wrote:
> One of my favorite books from my childhood was _En Levande Sjal_ by P.C.
> Jersild. It was the diary of a brain named Upsilon living in an aquarium at
> a research lab, dealing with its everyday life and the various odd things
> going on at the lab (everything from its unrequited love of a scientist over
> a severed crawling hand to the mysterious plots of the lab rats).
> (end)
>
> This sounds like a wonderful book! Is there an English translation
> available?

Apparently, I found this in Amazon,com's database (I might be
boycotting them, but it doesn't keep me from using their pages):

_Living Soul_ by P.C. Jersild, Rika Lesser (Translator)
                     Our Price: $19.95
                     Paperback
                     Dufour Editions; ISBN: 1870041097

Jersild is not transhumanist by any stretch, but biomedically
educated. He was originally a doctor before becoming full-time writer,
and this reflects in some of his books. I expect to meet him this
friday at a seminar on evolutionary medicine, might give me the chance
to thank him for the book.

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anders Sandberg                                      Towards Ascension!
asa@nada.kth.se                            http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/
GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:27:50 MST