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To: Rambi who wrote (270)	7/21/2001 6:41:06 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 466

We can read anything we like. We can read something not on any list. We can even CHANGE THE TOPIC! Such are the joys of adulthood! But . . . but . . . what about STRUCTURE. What about RULES? Are YOU the stranger in a rule-based society? Actually, I don't much care what we discuss next as long as I have time to read it before the discussion starts. But somebody has to take charge, and your name is on the thread header, and you're the one who took control, so be brave, be adult, make a decision, tell us what the next book is and when the discussion starts, and I doubt more than a dozen of the 13 regulars on this thread will argue with you.

To: Rambi who wrote (270)	7/21/2001 9:52:03 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 466

Has anyone read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman?" I don't know if autobiography counts as literature, but it is as close as I've been getting to non-fiction these days. As a science guy, it is all I can do to read the technical stuff I want to read. I'm one of these people who LOVE what they do. I embrace anyone who LOVES what they do. Richard P. Feynman is as probably as close to being a kindred spirit as anyone I've read, save maybe the few hundred other people who have left their mark in literature... What a spirit!! I've also just bought his Lectures in Physics. I'd perused them over the years but finally placed the order and took possession of them (or, THEY me) about two weeks back. I'm glad I own them: the greatest teacher of physics of the last century. I'd enjoyed other people's TEXTS but Feynman brings the material to LIFE with humor and insight. I can't say I ever got the totality from any book better than Lectures in Physics. I'd like to plagiarize them mercilessly for their cleverness in that book of mine that I wish to finish (the one or more we all dream to write and/or finish.)