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Aug. 20th, 2009 14:04Monday August 17, 2009 To Southwest Senior Center. Emailed my contribution to LinkOnline (one of the two electronic writing groups I've rejoined.) I was missing one edress, hoped to get that on Tuesday.
***Learned that Readers Digest was going bankrupt. I don't consider this dire economic news; the US economy has gotten along without Life, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post. But it does suggest this isn't the best of times for print magazines.
***Shopped at Aldi and Cub, and then home.
***The European guidebooks I've been reading lately have included descriptions of old Jewish neighborhoods in Eastern Europe; carefully preserved, perhaps with a few actual Jews.
This evening, I began to see a resemblance to the romantic treatment of American Indians in the US. Or the 19th century revisioning of Highlanders in England and Lowland Scotland.
Or the Pagan revival? I wonder how long it will be before Arabs begin celebrating their pagan heritage.
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Tuesday August 18, 2009 To Southwest Senior Center, to get online.
Looked up Hegel and "The End of History." Tentative conclusion: There've been many people certain they clearly understood Hegel, and they don't seem to have much agreed with each other.
Got the email address for the remaining copy of my LinkOnline zine, and sent it. After which I figured out how I could easily have had it yesterday.
***At Roosevelt Library, I took out: Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life? The true story of people who answered the ultimate question. Random House, New York, 2002. It lives up to its title and subtitle. Recommended.
***Learned that Readers Digest was going bankrupt. I don't consider this dire economic news; the US economy has gotten along without Life, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post. But it does suggest this isn't the best of times for print magazines.
***Shopped at Aldi and Cub, and then home.
***The European guidebooks I've been reading lately have included descriptions of old Jewish neighborhoods in Eastern Europe; carefully preserved, perhaps with a few actual Jews.
This evening, I began to see a resemblance to the romantic treatment of American Indians in the US. Or the 19th century revisioning of Highlanders in England and Lowland Scotland.
Or the Pagan revival? I wonder how long it will be before Arabs begin celebrating their pagan heritage.
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Tuesday August 18, 2009 To Southwest Senior Center, to get online.
Looked up Hegel and "The End of History." Tentative conclusion: There've been many people certain they clearly understood Hegel, and they don't seem to have much agreed with each other.
Got the email address for the remaining copy of my LinkOnline zine, and sent it. After which I figured out how I could easily have had it yesterday.
***At Roosevelt Library, I took out: Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life? The true story of people who answered the ultimate question. Random House, New York, 2002. It lives up to its title and subtitle. Recommended.