Checked out three more. Mel Watkins' Stepin Fetchit: the Life & Times of Lincoln Perry which I just *know* is going to be amazing. Walter Moers' either nonsensical or brilliant The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear with 136 black and white illustrations and 2 maps because -- well -- it was simply irresistible:
It is really quite easy to picture a square yard of multidimensional space -- provided you have seven brains.
Simply picture a train travelling through a black hole with a candle on its roof while you yourself, with a candle on your head, are standing on Mars and winding a clock precisely one yard in diameter, and while an owl, which also has a candle on its head and is travelling in the opposite direction to the train at the speed of light, is flying through a tunnel in the process of being swallowed by another black hole with a candle on its head (if you can imagine a black hole with a candle on its head, though for that you will require at least four brains). Join up the four points at which the candles are burning, using a coloured pencil, and you'll have one square yard of multidimensional space. You will also, coincidentally, be able to tell time on mars by the clock, even in the dark, because -- of course -- you've got a candle on your head. -- p. 256
Finally a little light reading in the form of Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster.
On record two of Saturday Night Fever, now, as I write this -- I swear there are waveforms in here that aren't on the CD. It's a much richer sound. More layered, if that makes any sense, or is even possible.
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That book sounds like Douglas Adams (Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy) on crack--in short, I loved that excerpt. I wrote down the title and intend on tracking down it down when I finish the couple books I'm on now, or when I just simply get tired of the books I'm on now and move on to something else;).
And yes, records almost always give a rich, full sound compared to their CD counterparts. Although CDs have their advantages, like portability, and durability, as far as anything released before the early 80s, the "right" way to really hear it is on LP.
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