Good morning, FIRST LINES OF GREAT BOOKS I love lists. Here’s a list of great opening lines from books. I’m not going to cite the source and let you guess! Feel free to send me your favorites: Call me Ishmael As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Moby Dick, Metamorphosis, don't know, guessing 1984?, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, don't know, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, guessing The Invisible Man, and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
As for Mark Ferrell's thoughts on Don't Look Up, confirmation bias results in people usually seeing what they want to see not seeing what they do not want to see, which is all driven by what they have already seen (and refused to see) before and the opinions created before the then current experience. No person nor political perspective has a monopoly on truth. For as heinous a person as Trump is, the relentless criticism, discrediting and devaluing even when Trump did something well or got something right since the day in November 2016 that he won the Presidency (and even before then) exposes his critics as much as him in with respect to the ability to see things right in front of them.
When I saw Don't Look Up (while in quarantine recovering from Covid infection), because of the movies utter lack of subtlety, I understood the point they were trying to make about Manmade Climate Change, but it was astounding to me how tone deaf they were about how it could just as easily be applied to the underreported and intentionally suppressed evidence of (1) ineffectiveness and potential dangers of the universal Covid vaccine rollout, (2) potential affordable, safe and effective alternative treatments for Covid, and (3) alternative virus origin evidence.
The world is short on humility, introspection and self-criticism, starting with me.
Moby Dick, Metamorphosis, don't know, guessing 1984?, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, don't know, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, guessing The Invisible Man, and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
As for Mark Ferrell's thoughts on Don't Look Up, confirmation bias results in people usually seeing what they want to see not seeing what they do not want to see, which is all driven by what they have already seen (and refused to see) before and the opinions created before the then current experience. No person nor political perspective has a monopoly on truth. For as heinous a person as Trump is, the relentless criticism, discrediting and devaluing even when Trump did something well or got something right since the day in November 2016 that he won the Presidency (and even before then) exposes his critics as much as him in with respect to the ability to see things right in front of them.
When I saw Don't Look Up (while in quarantine recovering from Covid infection), because of the movies utter lack of subtlety, I understood the point they were trying to make about Manmade Climate Change, but it was astounding to me how tone deaf they were about how it could just as easily be applied to the underreported and intentionally suppressed evidence of (1) ineffectiveness and potential dangers of the universal Covid vaccine rollout, (2) potential affordable, safe and effective alternative treatments for Covid, and (3) alternative virus origin evidence.
The world is short on humility, introspection and self-criticism, starting with me.
Thanks Glenn...very uplifting.
Moby Dick, Kafka’s metamorphosis, fear, and loathing in Las Vegas, The Invisible Man (educated guess), Lion, witch and the wardrobe.
Don’t know the others.