Border's
So I made the trek to Border's to get some new books. I always feel weird in there because the books are abysmally organized. I'm totally lost without call numbers. I guess they try to go alphabetic by the author's last name but somebody has got to do a little shelf-reading or something because a lot of books are out of order. My head would probably explode if I ever worked there. Another thing that bothers me about that place is the people. Well, there's two reasons the people bother me really. First off, that place is always busy. I think that building a Border's with sufficient parking in a physical impossibility because if people thought there was actually one in existence, they would come from all parts of the globe and eventually fill the lot up. Secondly, the people themselves are all sorts of weird. Some of them are people I would label 'book-holder' if I was cataloguing them. You can tell these people by the way they sit in the chairs, holding a book in the universally acknowledged 'reading position' (open) yet they are looking at you instead. Sometimes they will even point their faces towards the words on the page but their eyes inevitably point towards you. I know that I'm fascinating but maybe you should investigate another source of invaluable information. Then there are the bohemians. These are probably why the 'book-holders' lack the concentration skills necessary for reading. I wonder if these people exist outside of Border's, because I don't cross paths with them anywhere else. So, anyways, I got 2 cool books. One of them is called "Origins" and its about the origins of the Universe. We're about 3 minutes past the big-bang so far...matter has just separated from anti-matter. I'll let you know how that turns out. The other book is called "March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam" and it details 4 major blunders in history. It focuses on the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance Popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain's George III, and the United States' persistent folly in Vietnam. So, that's that. Origins kicks ass so far and from the looks of a quick skim, I think it will be super interesting.
have yuou ever read Guns, Germs, and Steel? Probably, right? I find that SOOO interesting. At least the part about the evolutionary process favoring the eurasian continent because of their latitude equality, versus the longitude of the north and south american continents. GOSH, did you ever read about what Cortez and Pisarro did to the mexican indians (incas and aztecs) in order to take them over???? DUDE. sooooooo interesting. my next blog, i think, is going to be on the overall History of the World (one of my absolute favs).
Anyway, i think they have Guns, Germs, and Steel in like biography form made for television or something. I think ive flipped through and seen it before. Never read the entire book, but the pieces i read were rather interesting.
There's some sort of library in like, Spain or someplace that has all these biographies and autobiographies from generals and conquistadors from the spanish inquisition, describing in detail exactly what these generals and people did during their tenures as battlefield icons. how they conquered certain people, tactics used, etc.
I actually dig on Hawkings books as well. I follow a lot of what he's sayingv, but of course, we differ on the origin aspect. To me, order signifies intelligence and that's just the bottom line. I dont see any way around it.
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omg, i feel the same way about Borders. the one downtown Seattle diagonally across from where i used to work as a barista was just awful. it gave me an upset stomach to be in there because of the weirdness factor--not good weird, either. so i think we pretty much all concur that Borders is filled with aliens pretending to read and work.
side note: Barnes & Noble in the University District (U-Village) is this awesome 2-story place, and i can totally hide out in there because it's so big. sweet because it has so much to seek out and find, and it's very findable. it has a rad music section upstairs too.
http://seattlecityphotography.com has a pic of the outside of it which is alright but a lot of other photos of other stuff, which are actually cool.
