false 31 488 479 true 5743969 read 9 true 673754 currently-reading 0 true 673753 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81300328 Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia (Hardcover) by Gregory Benford
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If you ever wondered what options there are for lay practitioners of Zen Buddhism, this is one. Be a cheerful, crazy, suffering old man wandering the world in search of moonbeams and a warm place to sleep at night.

Basho on a small lagoon:

"Indeed, it has a striking resemblance to the expression of a troubled mind."

And there it is, centuries before Solaris, the whole psychological insight of Lem's book in a sentence. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79485098 to: A Commonplace Book: (Paperback) by Alec Guinness
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