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There are some really good gems of wisdom in this, such as the meditation on the three qualities of a good programmer (laziness, impatience, and hubris, along with a warning against false laziness, false impatience, and false hubris).
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The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails
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| I went through a short phase of being obsessed with pre-WWI Austria when I read this. And also being obsessed with how haphazardly people are formed, probably because it was right after college when I was doing a lot of taking myself apart and puttin...more | |
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| You know, I have a lot of mixed feelings about Madeline L'Engle. I think I'd have found her annoying and too ...positive, certain of herself... if I had known her in real life. But I find myself coming back to this book when I need cheering up, or so...more | |
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| Fanboy blathering; maybe a snippet or two that I didn't know, but you can probably get more information from Stuart Murdoch's Fresh Air interview (although Murdoch is a perhaps unreliable narrator). | |
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| Had to read it in 3rd grade and it was kind of a stretch for me at the time. I read it again a couple of years ago just for kicks and it was a little disappointing. I don't know, maybe I had internalized it so much that I pretty much remembered the w...more | |
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“Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails
“…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change anymore. It might even be asserted that they have been cheated, for one can nowhere discover any sufficient reason for everything’s coming about as it has. It might just have well as turned out differently. The events of people’s lives have, after all, only to the last degree originated in them, having generally depended on all sorts of circumstances such as the moods, the life or death of quite different people, and have, as it were, only at the given point of time come hurrying towards them”
― Robert Musil
― Robert Musil
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