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July 23, 2011

‘A Dance with Dragons’, George R.R. Martin

Ah, now, I believe I’ve come to the point where the fifth A Song of Ice and Fire book is discussed here. I finished…

July 17, 2011

‘A Voice in the Dark’

This song, being one of the few that Blind Guardian has bothered to turn into a video, seemed fitting to sum up some of…

July 14, 2011

‘Naval Warfare’, J. Thursfield

I thought of writing about dreams, about illusions, of people, possibly about anger/disappointment. Those are, briefly, what I’ve thought about in the last few…

July 11, 2011

Collapse of a Society

Not a book per se, but wished to bring up two interesting titles that my today’s browsing brought up. Both relate to how societies…

July 8, 2011

‘The Secrets of the Self’, M. Iqbal

I managed to get through ‘The Secrets of the Self’, author sir Muhammad Iqbal (sometimes seemingly published in English as ‘Asrar-e-Khudi’ apparently, which should…

July 5, 2011

‘Types of Naval Officers’, A.T. Mahan

Full title being ‘Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy’, this book by the great (and reknown) Alfred Thayer…

July 3, 2011

‘A Song of Ice and Fire’

George R.R. Martin’s saga has been taken to TV now. I recently had the chance to see the first season of ‘A Song of…

June 11, 2011

“Quoting sir Muhammad Iqbal”

The quote from sir Muhammad Iqbal that I have chosen as a “short description” (whatever that is supposed to mean) for my blogs is…

June 7, 2011

Jorge Luis Borges

I happened on a few short stories by J.L. Borges a few days ago. I would now term it as a fortunate chance, given…

June 5, 2011

‘The Great Stagnation’, by T. Cowen

I had the chance of reading Tyler Cowen’s ‘The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and…

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Author: krikson