tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post5451636169807356538..comments2024-03-28T16:48:23.212-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Hearty, Jovial Aristocrats of the Heart'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-22414489367145562282009-03-30T17:49:00.000-05:002009-03-30T17:49:00.000-05:00It is no doubt true that the internet is a happy h...It is no doubt true that the internet is a happy hunting ground for monomaniacs. But the internet also provides plenty of opportunities for the intellectually curious autodidact to indulge himself in bookish serendipity. Because of the internet I have discovered (to take a few random examples from a very large field):<BR/>(1) The joys of reading Zbigniew Herbert and Guy Davenport (I bought The Geography of the Imagination after reading one of your earlier posts)<BR/>(2) Podcasts of lectures by Herbert Dreyfus on Kierkegaard and Heidegger.Uncle Tobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05139536917051152041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-52578720489680376642009-03-29T13:18:00.000-05:002009-03-29T13:18:00.000-05:00Hay-on-Wye is the likely reference to North Wales ...Hay-on-Wye is the likely reference to North Wales as the best place in Britain for second-hand bookshops. There are thirty in a single town. It is a remarkable place to visit.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07452367263722647460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-88717481464970804172009-03-29T11:46:00.000-05:002009-03-29T11:46:00.000-05:00Thanks for the link. I have a bookloving friend i...Thanks for the link. I have a bookloving friend in Ireland to whom I was going to forward this link. Just in time though, I remembered he is allergic to dust, so I might have been torturing him.Deborah Cooknoreply@blogger.com