Things to Read
A list of books I want to read, films I want to see, and music I want to listen to.
“Asterios Polyp”, David Mazzucchelli
“Le train de nulle part”, Michel Thaler
“Evening In The Palace Of Reason”
Carol Davidson Cragoe, “How to read buildings”
Alistair Elliot, “The Young Fate”
Wilhelm Reich, “Listen, Little Man!”
Abelson & Sussman, “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”
Walter Benjamin, “The task of the translator”
Richard Powers, novels
Erich Auerbach, “Mimesis”
Goncharov, “Oblomov”
Peter Porter, poetry by
Paintings by Arne Ekeland
Patrick Modiano, “Rue des boutiques obscures”
S. I. Hayakawa, “Language in Thought and Action”
Philip Hoare, “Leviathan”
Tarkovsky, "Solaris"
Constantine Cavafy, Complete Works translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
Alan McFarlane, "Japan Through the Looking Glass"
Guy Deutscher, "The Unfolding of Language"
Lanfeust des Étoiles (tômes 4-8)
Mithen, "The Singing Neanderthal"
Hurford, "The Origins of Meaning"
Bellos, "A Life of Perec"
Harry Mullisch, "The Discovery of Heaven"
Borges, "Dreamtigers" (El Hacedor)
Raymond Queneau, "Zazie dans le métro"
Bryn Terfel, "Silent Noon"
"The Fatal Shore" (Australian history)
Murray Gell-Mann, "The Jaguar and the Quark"
"Borges: A Life"
Steve Talbott, "Devices of the Soul" (0-596-52680-6)
John H. Holland, "Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity" (1995)
Italo Calvino, "Why Read The Classics?"
Burks, Goldstine & von Neumann 1946 in Bell & Newell 1971
Edward Gorey
Lemony Snicket, "A series of unfortunate events" (books 3-13)
G. Spencer Brown, "Laws of Form" (1969)
Salman Rushdie, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories"
Edward Regis, Jr. (ed.), "Extraterrestrials" (0-521-26227-5)
Peter Newmark, "A Textbook of Translation" (0-13-912593-0)
Horace Freeland, "The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology" (0-87969477-7)
Michael Machtey and Paul Young, "An Introduction to the General Theory of Algorithms" (0-44400226-X)
Alistair Crombie, "Styles of Thinking in the European Tradition" (0-71562439-3)
Richard Feynman, "Feynman Lectures on Physics" (3 vols, 0-20150064-7/0-20102115-3)
David Wells, "The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry" (0-14011813-6)
Peter Lee, "Bayesian Statistics: an Introduction" (FirstBayes: www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/aoh/)
P.D.Q. Bach
Mary van Leunen, "A Handbook for Scholars"
Robert Berkow and Andrew Fletcher, "Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy" (0-91191016-6)
Philip and Phylis Morrison, "Powers of Ten" (0-71670344-0)
Milton Abramowitz and Irene Stegun, "Handbook of Mathematical Functions" (0-31811730-4)
Tarthang Tulku, "Time, Space and Knowledge" (0-98900205-2)
Freeman Dyson, "Infinite in all Directions" (0-06091569-2)
Noam Chomsky, "Power and Prospects" (0-7453-1107-5)
Noam Chomsky, "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies" (0-7453-0820-1)
Edward Tufte, "Envisioning Information"
Edward Tufte, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
Ableson and Sussman, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
Theoretical Comp. Sci. 50:1-102 (1987)
Information & Computation 93:55-92 (1991)
Ninian Smart, "World Philosophies" (0-415-18466-5 (Hbk))
Vera Bodansky, "Extended Massive Orgasm"
Michael L. Scott, "Programming Language Pragmatics", ISBN 1-55860-442-1
Robert Cormier, "After the first death"; "I am the cheese"
E. O. Wilson, "Consilience: the unity of knowledge"
William Asprey, "John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing"
Neal Stephenson, "The Baroque Cycle"
Grevisse et Goosse, "Le Bon Usage"
Geoffrey Wallum, "First Light"
Manuel Castells, "The Information Age"
Oh, and some music I thought might be nice to play. But I haven't touched a double bass for since, ooh, 2001? nor a 'cello since 1987.
Viotti, Scherzando for cello and double bass
Jean Barrière: Sonata for cello and double bass
Paganini: Fantasia for cello and double bass