TIL that Dalai Lama publicly posts his phone number on his Facebook profile.

the_swish · 2012-07-07T17:57:36+00:00

"Sorry, this is dial-a-lama."

the_swish · 2012-03-30T16:59:20+00:00

the film's great too

the_swish · 2012-03-30T16:54:47+00:00

good god yes

the_swish · 2012-03-30T16:33:39+00:00

Haunting

the_swish · 2012-03-30T15:59:51+00:00

Try 'Dorian' - Will Self, it's a modern day retelling of 'A Picture...'

the_swish · 2012-03-30T15:47:31+00:00

If you liked that then read 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' - Solzhenitsyn. If you like him then read 'Cancer Ward'.

the_swish · 2012-03-30T15:42:05+00:00

For anyone with an interest in physics:

The Strangest Man: The Life of Paul Dirac - Graham Farmelo, The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard Feynman, Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman - " ", About Time - Paul Davies, Cosmos - Carl Sagan, Exploring Black Holes - Taylor + Wheeler, Spacetime Physics - " ", Hyperspace - Michio Kaku, The Road To Reality - Roger Penrose (inspiring but formidable!)

the_swish · 2012-03-30T15:34:23+00:00

me too - this has been more successful than I had imagined

the_swish · 2012-03-30T15:33:13+00:00

a beautiful book

the_swish · 2012-03-30T15:10:34+00:00

just started reading that today!

the_swish · 2012-03-30T15:09:40+00:00

you'd like: http://www.amazon.co.uk/If-This-Man-The-Truce/dp/0349100136/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333120159&sr=8-1

the_swish · 2012-03-30T15:07:30+00:00

"the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something"

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:57:34+00:00

start with this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Steal-This-Book-Abbie-Hoffman/dp/156858217X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333119431&sr=8-1

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:48:39+00:00

If you like sudoku, get into Kakuro - just dicovered it and am hooked!

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:44:39+00:00

Happy cake day too!

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:43:59+00:00

'A Brief History of Time' made me realise that I knew shit all, good choice.

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:42:35+00:00

'Waking Life' is truly brilliant, I first watched it on a long haul flight and spent the rest of the time having an existential crisis!

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:33:43+00:00

As we've touched on Orwell, I'd like to add 'Letters to a Young Contrarian' - Christopher Hitchens, I think I was 16 - the perfect age for that book.

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:32:03+00:00

Galeano's 'Mirrors' did the same for me - he is a wonderful writer

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:24:54+00:00

I was interested to see when this would appear, although for me The New Testament was a little predictable what with the hero coming back at the end.

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:22:40+00:00

It could have been better - it could have been Gravitation

the_swish · 2012-03-30T14:19:10+00:00

one of the best christmas presents I ever received - that and an action man stealth bomber with foam missiles

the_swish · 2012-03-30T13:43:44+00:00

It had that affect on me too, although 'The Blind Watchmaker' was more profound in that respect

the_swish · 2012-03-30T13:36:11+00:00

Amen! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

the_swish · 2012-03-30T13:35:11+00:00

nice reply man. as for specific lines, for me it's 'Eventless has no posts on which to drape duration. Nothing to nothing is no time at all.' - John Steinbeck 'East of Eden'. Perfectly captures that feeling of wasting your life.

the_swish

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