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1 introduction

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2 reading

3 now

3.1 On Liberty

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3.2 The Liberal Hour

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3.3 It Cant Happen Here

  • see the book's bookmark: Chapter 8 ichh
  • or the annotation's: Abstract on itcanhappen.org

4 have read

4.1 Colin Dexter, the first three Morss novel   dexter morse

4.2 Mad Like Tesla   mitbc

Whats the story on EEstore? Starting with Tyler Hamilton Or on Wikipedia – EEstor

Its likely first application, the ZENN car

  1. Metrics for all chapters

    Energy Solutions

    metric value
    sector generation, transmission, storage
    level exclusive, moderate, incidental
    scale portable, garage, acre, ocean, space
    technology available, developing, breakthru
    material rare earth, nuclear, geo, …
    when term, generation, century
    money M, B, Q(usetion)
    name

    e.g. EEstor's solution would be s, e, p, b, r, g, M, EEstor

    a solution in mutliple sectors might be "ts, mm" for "transmission, storage; moderate, moderate"

    While reading on Jan 28, 2017, in the Silent World of Nicholas Quinn where Morse has "all the suspects gathered, and everything was going according to plan" caught my attention. I had to chuckle. It's like Dexter was poking his nose thru the fourth wall of the stage, having fun with his readers. "Of course it's going according to plan, and in this case it's the author's plan, and Morse is falling in line."

4.3 Hidden Figures

5 to read

5.1 from Dave Astor's blog

a post from JJ McGrath:

  • Richard Adams (1920-2016), “Watership Down.”
  • Edward Albee (1928-2016), “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
  • William Peter Blatty (1928-2017), “The Exorcist.”
  • David Bowie (1947-2016), “Space Oddity.”
  • Jimmy Breslin (1928-2017), “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.”
  • Nat Hentoff (1925-2017), “The Nat Hentoff Reader.”
  • Richard Matheson (1926-2013), “I Am Legend.”
  • George Michael (1963-2016), “Careless Whisper” (co-written by Andrew Ridgeley).
  • Farley Mowat (1921-2014), “Never Cry Wolf.”
  • Prince (1958-2016), “When Doves Cry.”
  • Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), “The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984.”
  • Mark Strand (1934-2014), “Selected Poems.”
  • Alvin Toffler (1928-2016), “Future Shock.”
  • Gore Vidal (1925-2012), “Visit to a Small Planet.”
  • C.K. Williams (1936-2015), “With Ignorance.”

first cut: Adams, Albee, Breslin, Hentoff, Toffler, Vidal. decidedly male

5.2 Singles

  • Big Science, in Chapter 2: "South Daktota Boy", in its first paragraph: "Canton South Dakota was a thriving agricultural town of two thousand residents located near the sourwester wedge of the state, where it met Iowa and Nebraska…" Except it's the southeastern wedge of South Dakota which meets Iowa and Nebraska.
  • Typical of Hidden Figures, in Glass Universe, on p. 124, "to make room for Mrs Fleming's mother, brother, and two nephews, Miss Cannon invited her widowed older half sister… to come live with her in Cambridge".
  • Machines of Loving Grace, Markka
  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Mathew Desmond <2017-10-11 Wed>

6 tools

6.1 library thing

  1. DONE true up this list

    the best 20 books I've read in the last five years

6.2 bit.ly

7 the canon

from the NYT Book Review 8/21/15

7.1 in

according to Francine Prose:

  • Bible
  • Odyssey
  • Illiad
  • Sophocles
  • Chaucer
  • Shakespeare
  • Davied Copperfield
  • MIddlemarch
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Virginia Wolfe, essays
  • Katherine Mansfield ?
  • James Bladwin
  • Coeridge, – fm Parker

7.2 out

according to James Parker

  • Wordsworth

Author: Marty McGowan

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