On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
> This Blog on the secret life of punctuation is amusing:
>
> http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> As for Shag's initial question about the pop philosophy books, I have
>> >> to admit to not having read a single article from any of the "_____
>> >> and philosophy" books, not even The Big Lebwowkski volume. I know some
>> >> people who like Alain de Botton, and I've watched some of his series
>> >> on philosophers and thought it was pretty good, given what it was
>> >> doing.
>> >
>> > Bring back the old Pelican paperbacks, I say. They were aimed at a
>> > general audience and yet weren't gimmicky, didn't dumb it down, and
>> > you really learn something from them. I switch into present tense
>> > there because thankfully there are stacks and stacks of them for $5 or
>> > less at any second-hand bookshop. I assume they were sold in the
>> > States as well? When I want to get a basic outline of something, I'd
>> > much rather read that kind of thing than something titled 'Colon: the
>> > astonishing hidden life of the punctuation mark that became a cliche',
>> > etc. (Actually, though, I exempt the 'history of the world in a grain
>> > of salt' type books from this, because 'keyhole history' can be pretty
>> > interesting - Kurlansky is a good example.)
>>
>> Yeah, as I say, I'd much rather they actually read Plato. Or whoever.
>>
>> But if you wrote that book on the colon, I might find a way to assign it.
>> :)
>>
>> j
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