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eorDuring our running around today we went to the bookstore. I picked up Wilhelm Reich's "The Function of Orgasm". When I showed ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derien the conversation went something like this:
d: You're going to get that?
e: Yes.
d: Why?
e: He's a nut!
d: Exactly. Why would you waste a part of your life like that?
e: There are plenty of ways to waste part of your life.
d: Like looking for a book that probably already sold.
(derien was looking for a book she passed up about six months ago. She spent considerable time looking even though she couldn't even remember the title or author. A fruitless search.)
You really can't judge if someone is truly a nut until you've actually read the work. I didn't start badmouthing Stephen King until I'd read some of his books and discovered he couldn't write an ending to save his soul. Speaking of whom, when we were walking down the street today, a random passerby asked me if I was Stephen King. Uh, no, but from that comment I guess he's using old photos on his back covers, he's a bit older than I am.
Oh, I also got "HIgher Mathematics" by Burlington and Torrance. It's a nicely bound calculus book from 1939. I still mourn the fact that I got rid of my old calc book, but it was a much larger tome.
derien the conversation went something like this:d: You're going to get that?
e: Yes.
d: Why?
e: He's a nut!
d: Exactly. Why would you waste a part of your life like that?
e: There are plenty of ways to waste part of your life.
d: Like looking for a book that probably already sold.
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derien was looking for a book she passed up about six months ago. She spent considerable time looking even though she couldn't even remember the title or author. A fruitless search.)You really can't judge if someone is truly a nut until you've actually read the work. I didn't start badmouthing Stephen King until I'd read some of his books and discovered he couldn't write an ending to save his soul. Speaking of whom, when we were walking down the street today, a random passerby asked me if I was Stephen King. Uh, no, but from that comment I guess he's using old photos on his back covers, he's a bit older than I am.
Oh, I also got "HIgher Mathematics" by Burlington and Torrance. It's a nicely bound calculus book from 1939. I still mourn the fact that I got rid of my old calc book, but it was a much larger tome.
