Comments on: Stuff You Might Like http://www.ryanholiday.net/stuff-you-might-like/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: habs http://www.ryanholiday.net/stuff-you-might-like/#comment-9688 habs Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:16:57 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/stuff-you-might-like/#comment-9688 I picked up Theory of War last week, and finished it today. I found it was a lot darker then Gladiator. The tobacco fields, the worms, Hope, and even when Johnny tried playing house with Sarah are some of the most quietly horrific things I have ever read. It was just so sad to see him try and pick up the pieces, live some kind of life, but at the same time see how much slavery had destroyed any possible hope for that. Good book all around but it was like reading someones rising nightmare that could only be cured with Georges and Jonathans death. "I felt myself at the edge of whole landscapes of nightmare that lived in Jonathan and threatened me through him. But I've never quite made out, not even now, grown up, with his diaries of me precisely what it is that frightens me so much - and yet I know that somewhere here lies the secret bond between him and me." What do you think that secret bond is? I thought maybe it was both their search for "truth." And what meaning do you get from the opening quote from Nathaniel Carrick? The one about slavery? I picked up Theory of War last week, and finished it today. I found it was a lot darker then Gladiator. The tobacco fields, the worms, Hope, and even when Johnny tried playing house with Sarah are some of the most quietly horrific things I have ever read. It was just so sad to see him try and pick up the pieces, live some kind of life, but at the same time see how much slavery had destroyed any possible hope for that. Good book all around but it was like reading someones rising nightmare that could only be cured with Georges and Jonathans death.

“I felt myself at the edge of whole landscapes of nightmare that lived in Jonathan and threatened me through him. But I’ve never quite made out, not even now, grown up, with his diaries of me precisely what it is that frightens me so much – and yet I know that somewhere here lies the secret bond between him and me.”

What do you think that secret bond is? I thought maybe it was both their search for “truth.”

And what meaning do you get from the opening quote from Nathaniel Carrick? The one about slavery?

]]> By: Alex http://www.ryanholiday.net/stuff-you-might-like/#comment-9687 Alex Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:43:18 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/stuff-you-might-like/#comment-9687 At 1.8 of "The Meditations" Marcus credits his mentor Fabius Rusticus with "...introducing me to Epictetus's lectures-and loaning me his own copy," not Fronto, who he mentions in 1.11 with nothing on Epictetus.Gregory Hays's introduction, page xxv, alludes to the same thing. Am I missing something? At 1.8 of “The Meditations” Marcus credits his mentor Fabius Rusticus with “…introducing me to Epictetus’s lectures-and loaning me his own copy,” not Fronto, who he mentions in 1.11 with nothing on Epictetus.Gregory Hays’s introduction, page xxv, alludes to the same thing.

Am I missing something?

]]> By: Joseph http://www.ryanholiday.net/stuff-you-might-like/#comment-9686 Joseph Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:07:44 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/stuff-you-might-like/#comment-9686 I just picked up "The Identity Society" by William Glasser. He is making the case that no longer is the Western world's aspiring youth reaching for goals to "obtain security within the power hierarchy," but they are looking for a fulfilling role, something that has personal significance. It was written in the early 1970's. Sounds like a precurser to what you mention. BTW, the thread link at the end of your post is a dud. I just picked up “The Identity Society” by William Glasser. He is making the case that no longer is the Western world’s aspiring youth reaching for goals to “obtain security within the power hierarchy,” but they are looking for a fulfilling role, something that has personal significance. It was written in the early 1970′s. Sounds like a precurser to what you mention.

BTW, the thread link at the end of your post is a dud.

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