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Day November 24, 2007

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Lesson Learned

Nov 24, ’07 6:27 PM

If I stare at the screen longer than the duration of the Anglo-Zanzibar War without writing a word, it means my idea for a post was no good. So, the salient points I had hoped to make are:

  1. Sometimes, going back to a book can be rewarding, even when you don’t remember it fondly
  2. As a corollary to that, A Confederacy of Dunces is now one of the funniest novels I’ve ever read, and I was bored by it when I read it in 1992
  3. I have so many books in my library, I won’t get around to reading half of them before I die
  4. As a corollary to that, I was so bored by James Wood’s The Book Against God after 70 pages that I tossed it into my “Books To Sell” box after the San Diego trip
  5. Oh, and sometimes my Eco Chamber strategy just doesn’t work

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China Syndrome, Part 2467

Nov 24, ’07 9:03 AM

For a one-party dictatorship, China’s government is remarkably ineffective at getting the locals to follow orders:

“Understanding is not adequate, responsibilities are unclear, measures are not complementary, policies are incomplete, investment doesn’t arrive, and coordination is ineffective,” China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, complained bitterly.

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