New Non-Fiction
Jan. 29th, 2003 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tzikehActually, most of this isn't new or even newish, but Susan Werner's latest cd is called "New Non-Fiction", and I thought it would be a good title for this post.
1) Egypt has been called the Gift of the Nile. -- Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
2) The police in the small town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, worried briefly in 1974 about a man seen prowling in the dark, night after night, the red glow of his cigarette floating along the back streets. -- James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
3) The subject is that part of the sentence about which something is divulged; it is what the sentence's other words are gossiping about. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
4) Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, came to power in 1740. -- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
5) They came to Boston from as far away as London and Los Angeles, several dozen middle-aged men, reuniting for a fall weekend in 1994 to celebrate what they had done twenty-five years earlier. -- Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
6) In the Very Beginning there was a void -- a curious form of vacuum -- a nothingness containing no space, no time, no matter, no light, no sound. -- Leon Lederman, The God Particle - If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?
7) In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. -- David McCullough, John Adams
8) This two-year course in physics is presented from the point of view that you, the reader, are going to be a physicist. -- Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces
9) Two incidents from my childhood greatly enriched my understanding of the world and sent me on a course to become a theoretical physicist. -- Michio Kaku, Hyperspace
10) I am blasting right out of the gate with a test of physical endurance and agility: I'm watching seven films from the front row of the theater. -- Kevin Murphy, A Year At the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey
Er, yes, I like theoretical physics; why do you ask?
1) Egypt has been called the Gift of the Nile. -- Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
2) The police in the small town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, worried briefly in 1974 about a man seen prowling in the dark, night after night, the red glow of his cigarette floating along the back streets. -- James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
3) The subject is that part of the sentence about which something is divulged; it is what the sentence's other words are gossiping about. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
4) Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, came to power in 1740. -- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
5) They came to Boston from as far away as London and Los Angeles, several dozen middle-aged men, reuniting for a fall weekend in 1994 to celebrate what they had done twenty-five years earlier. -- Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
6) In the Very Beginning there was a void -- a curious form of vacuum -- a nothingness containing no space, no time, no matter, no light, no sound. -- Leon Lederman, The God Particle - If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?
7) In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. -- David McCullough, John Adams
8) This two-year course in physics is presented from the point of view that you, the reader, are going to be a physicist. -- Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces
9) Two incidents from my childhood greatly enriched my understanding of the world and sent me on a course to become a theoretical physicist. -- Michio Kaku, Hyperspace
10) I am blasting right out of the gate with a test of physical endurance and agility: I'm watching seven films from the front row of the theater. -- Kevin Murphy, A Year At the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey
Er, yes, I like theoretical physics; why do you ask?
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Date: 2003-01-29 11:50 am (UTC)Crap. Now I want to do a non-fiction list, and I'm not even done with the novels yet.
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Date: 2003-01-29 12:01 pm (UTC)Addictive, no? I'm actually coming up with my own book meme - "Book you know you own but cannot FIND, dammit" "Book you swear is next on the to-read list but constantly gets bumped off by something else" "Book you wish you could read for the first time all over again" "Book you stopped halfway through and never got back to"...