From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 11:33:14 MST
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 08:15 AM, Amara Graps wrote:
> (some afterthoughts, continuing my note in responding to Chris Hibbert)
>
> P.S. I will let you know when my officemate has written the
> Sky & Telescope article on Cruithne and other asteroids of
> this type, because he is the celestial mechanics expert. His
> pop science writing is good, but in Russian, so his coauthor
> will help him out with polishing his English.
>
> And your friend's book: _The Color of Nature_ (by Murphy and Doherty)
> has been a favorite of mine for some years. It made it on my
> "Renaissance Book List: http://www.amara.com/aboutme/renhuman.html
> last year. It's a lovely book, please give him my compliments.
>
> Another cool (hot) Web page of explorations and discoveries:
>
> Information about Stromboli, Etna and other volcanoes
> http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/
>
> (Note: Etna blazingly active right now:
> http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/etna/etna02/index-en.html)
>
>
>
> Amara
>
I just read one of the Umberto Eco books, an English translation of
"Island of the Day Before". It was pretty good. Eco is a really good
writer. I read "Foucault's Pendulum" and maybe "Name of the Rose"
before.
I read the John Irving books one time, Tolkien, recently some Clancy.
"Island of the Day Before" is quite entertaining, and it doesn't really
go anywhere. This is funny in the book, Roberto and Caspar are on the
ship trying to figure out how to get to shore, they can't swim. Caspar
dons an early diver suit and proceeds to walk on the ocean floor to the
beach. He never surfaces.
It's a good post-surreal romanticist book. It takes a while to get
started. Eco uses new words. I liked that "Foucault's Pendulum" too.
Poor Goethe.
Ross
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