Even while the market bumps along
waiting for the next cycle turn window, I'm still busy buying books. I'm the guy in the pulp disaster novel
Lucifer's Hammer who preserves a precious cache of
books in his septic tank before Hammerfall, only I'd prefer to skip the tank if I can.
So what's new on the shelves these days?
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R.W. Tabor & D.F. Crowder, Routes and Rocks in the
Mt. Challenger Quadrangle (with map), The Mountaineers, 1968 |
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American Alpine Club (Fred Beckey), Climber's Guide to the Cascade
and Olympic Mountains of Washington, AAC, 1961 |
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Bob and Ira Spring, Camera Adventuring on
Mr. Rainier (boxed), Superior Publishing, 1955 |
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| Karl M. Herrligkoffer, Nanga Parbat: The Killer Mountain, Knopf, 1954 |
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Colin Fletcher, River: One Man's Journey Down the
Colorado, Source to Sea, Knopf, 1997 |
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| Hiram Bingham, Lost City of the Incas, Folio Society, 2004 |
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| James Dickey, Deliverance, Houghton Mifflin, 1970 |
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F. A. Hayek, eds Bartley & Kresge, The Collected Works:
The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists
and Economic History, Chicago, 1991 |
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| Thorstein Veblen, ed. Max Lerner, The Portable Veblen, Viking, 1950 |
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| Michael Lewis, The Money Culture, W.W. Norton, 1991 |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn et al, From Under the Rubble,
Little, Brown, 1975 |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Rebuilding Russia: Reflections
and Tentative Proposals, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991 |
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Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision, Part One: Germany
and World-Historical Evolution, Knopf, 1934 1st ed |
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| Donald R. Dudley, The Romans: 850 B.C.-A.D. 337, Knopf, 1970 |
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| Edith Hamilton, The Echo of Greece, W.W. Norton, 1957 |
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| Epictetus, Discourses, Fragments, The Encheiridion, Harvard, 1998 |
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| Francis Gies, The Knight in History, Harper & Row, 1987 |
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George Ivan Smith, Ghosts of Kampala: The Rise
and Fall of Idi Amin, St. Martins, NY, 1980 |
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L.H. Whittemore, COP! A Closeup of Violence and Tragedy,
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969 |
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Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing
in Chicago 1940-1960, Cambridge UP, 1983 |
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Charles Moore, Daniel H. Burnham: Architect Planner of Cities,
2 vols 1st ed in slipcase, Houghton, Mifflin, 1921 |
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| some sci-fi pulp mags |
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C.A. Marchaj, Sailing Theory and Practice,
revised ed, Dodd, Mead, 1982 |
23 comments:
So it looks like I'm headed toward Stoicism in the mountains. I'll take it.
Into anthropology at all?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003FG4A0W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
A great score indeed!
In regards to Idi AMin:
"It has often been claimed that President Idi Amin “Dada” was a cannibal, who enjoyed chowing down on the faces of his enemies. When asked by a reporter if this was true, Amin replied:
‘I don’t like human flesh –- it’s too salty for me.’
Now you know. In fact, Amin’s favorite food was apparently oranges—probably quenching all that human saltiness—and was said to eat up to 40 oranges a day, claiming the fruit kept him healthy and gave him the horn."
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/i_dont_like_human_flesh
Gotta luv it.
And out in Colorado, they still celebrate Alferd Packer days...
Alfred Griner "Alferd" Packer (January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907) was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. He and five other men attempted to travel through the high mountains of Colorado during the peak of a harsh winter. When only Alfred reached civilization, he claimed that the others had killed each other for food, and confessed to having lived off the flesh of his companions during his snowbound state and to having used it to survive his trek out of the mountains two months later. After his story was called into question, he hid from justice for nine years before being tried, convicted of murder, and sentenced to death. Packer won a retrial and was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison for manslaughter
I note that SFV is whining about the cowardly Nero, blah, blah, blah...
Instead, he will discover Trump is more like Patton - if only Generation Snowflake will listen.
Put your tinfoil hats on.
http://catholiccitizens.org/news/69506/pope-ordered-card-burke-clean-freemasons-knights-malta/
SFV is still betraying his delusional liberal status when he declares:
"Note: the temples of ancient Rome were not houses of prayerful worship and propaganda like churches today; the priests acted as notaries, mediators, fiduciaries, keepers of vital records and contracts; temples functioned as banks, law offices and trading rooms as these things did not exist as such during that time."
Organized religion in the FUSA is a fully functioning governmental reporting agency acting under the authority of the IRS - as 501c(3) Corporations.
Shilling for feminism needs to end -
You can BLAH BLAH BLAH all you want - but this is what we all want:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrWsmlJSiw
TRUMP rules! And the Pope can go to H-E-double toothpicks. (LOL)
I swear I was triggered by about half the Superbowl commercials tonight. Anyone else notice the shared theme this year?
Manly Men - recognize and interact with Manly Men.
From President Trump!: “I’ve always felt fine about Putin. He’s a strong leader. He’s a powerful leader,” Trump added.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-05/trump-defends-killer-putin-national-tv-do-you-think-our-country-so-innocent
CG, I must admit, I did not watch the Superbowl, but I did see a lot of Spuds McKenzie ads on You Tube.
Generation Bud Light Strange?
Gotta keep a running'! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FRATeocV2I
And some Gary Moore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUpfw4Hf3w
I don't watch football. I can imagine the theme was anti-white, hetero male.
OMG.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/kgb-sends-trump-his-first-directive-axe-f-35-buy-russias-mig-35-instead/ri18731
Looks pretty credible, Hugh. ;)
As long as it's politically correct, it's fine with youtube. Trigger warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2uZyTm_w0M
Travel ban a precursor to war?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwjR-QpDtME
Peak QQQ incoming!
Retail is all in now. 'Safely' parked in F.A.N.G.
Amazon's footprint here in the Seattle is really quite remarkable.
Pace Bastiat, this is what is seen.
There is so little interest in shorting now, that there are HUGE gaps in the strikes of March week 2 SPY options.
Look at what has traded between 200 and 220 strikes. Crickets ...
I picked up a copy of "Now you're Logging" at a Rotary club book sale a few years back, for the princely sum of two dollars. A handy guide to logging in a post industrial world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_Griffiths
Another call nailed CG. You were just a little early. Is this it for now, or do we clear 2305 and keep going?
I want to lay on a short next week, Hugh. Let's see what happens today, and I'll post a chart tonight. We're still within this bottled-up wedge. SPY volume a trickle this morning.
So last night in Value Village I found a 1st edition of none other than Niven and Pournelle's doomer-classic Lucifer's Hammer, in hardcover with DJ, worth $70 to $100!
I'll post that tonight, too. It must be a sign from the gods.
Caldero says if we clear 2336 we're headed MUCH higher.
Bicycle, with all respect, you are flat wrong.
time to dust off "DOW 36,000". it's coming finally :)
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