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Archive for February, 2009

Umberto Eco’s anti-library (by way of The Black Swan)

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

As February draws to a close, and this blog’s ‘to read’ pile of books is increasingly resembling babel, it’s worth taking some consolation - knowing that a too-high percentage of these books will remain, forever, merely glanced at - offered up by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his rightfully acclaimed The Black Swan:
The writer Umberto Eco [...]

Nadine Gordimer’s turn of phrase

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

One of the ideas behind setting up ‘Is there a book in this blog?’ was to create a space where contributors could jump right in and make off-the-cuff observations about books/writers without the need to build up a structured review piece (there are plenty of those elsewhere in Three Monkeys Online).
With that spirit in mind, [...]