[Skybird]

An eternity it seems, since I posted in this thread.

I just finished re-reading Dino Buzzati's "The Tartar Steppe" (first time since my teenage years) and finally - with delay - finished the triology by Philip Pullman, "His Dark Materials", and I just started to re-read Marc Aurel's "Meditations", and also just embarked on Machiavelli's "Discorsi" a week ago, liking it very much. I so far only read a superb biography on the man, whoch already shed a lot of light on his basic thinking. Easy to misunderstand him (most do), realistic thinking, no pleasure there to be found for emotional dreamers thinking the world hopefully will come to a better day all by itself if only people "mean it well". So, two nice books in the reading here, currently.