do the angels really grieve?
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hawkwing_lbBooks 2010: 115
non-fiction
115. Byron Good, Medicine, rationality and experience, Cambridge, 1994.
Anthropology for anthropologists. I am not a fan of impenetrable jargon. And this was theoretical impenetrability at its worst.
On the other hand, some bits were very useful. Mostly, though, it was a painful experience.
I was ambushed last night by a sore throat, and it's only grown worse today. I am forced to conclude that this is Not Fair. But what else is new?
All the news is bad. Sometimes I wonder, you know, how I can justify my education. I defend the study of history by saying that that which is done for joy and the sake of learning possesses intrinsic worth, but the sad fact is that is not, usually, remunerative worth.
I don't know why the present zeitgeist privileges money over happiness, considering that many of us in the end achieve neither.
non-fiction
115. Byron Good, Medicine, rationality and experience, Cambridge, 1994.
Anthropology for anthropologists. I am not a fan of impenetrable jargon. And this was theoretical impenetrability at its worst.
On the other hand, some bits were very useful. Mostly, though, it was a painful experience.
I was ambushed last night by a sore throat, and it's only grown worse today. I am forced to conclude that this is Not Fair. But what else is new?
All the news is bad. Sometimes I wonder, you know, how I can justify my education. I defend the study of history by saying that that which is done for joy and the sake of learning possesses intrinsic worth, but the sad fact is that is not, usually, remunerative worth.
I don't know why the present zeitgeist privileges money over happiness, considering that many of us in the end achieve neither.
