Humberto Lima

Writer

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@oldbooksguy Start building your cathedral!

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@oldbooksguy Great insight!

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@pensandpoison After McCarthy death is hard to find great ones nowadays. But among contemporaries, I like David Mitchell. Not a "literary mastermind" as you put (or like Cormac) but his Cloud Atlas is a beautiful work. He deserves more atention imo. But I agree that nowadays the bar is low.

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@LandsknechtPike Right

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Brilliant design

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@stevenstrogatz @nntaleb Had to check what "flaneuring" means in wikipedia and now I've decided to walk around my town like a 19th century parisian, with a copy of Les Misérables under my arm.

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@oldbooksguy In this case I think you should not choose the best writer, but the most entertaining (if you don't want to get bored or depressed for the rest of your life. Not wise to pick german philosophy or russian fiction for example). Maybe I would pick Saramago or Borges.

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@DavidDeutschOxf Try watching at 0,5x speed. Even better.

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@chesscom It depends on the position.

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"Little men in lofty places, who throw long shadows, because our sun is setting." Walter Savage Landor

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@oldbooksguy In general: for inspiration, "The Age of Wonder" by Richard Holmes; for a sense of purpose, "Mastery", by Robert Greene. Specific for writers: classical fiction (e.g. Saramago, García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Cormac McCarthy, Tolkien).

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@skdh

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@oldbooksguy Schopenhauer's aphorisms on The Wisdom of Life

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@Kasparov63 By then they never heard of Mecking.

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@Kasparov63 My father and his brothers learned to play chess as children in 1972, from a newspaper reporting Fischer’s victory, which included a sidebox explaining the rules and pieces movement of chess. Imagine this happening in a small town in the Brazilian countryside.

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@oldbooksguy From the exact quote: "We have more power than will; and it is often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible." (Maxim 49)

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@AuthorGFAllen Hundred years of solitude

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@slatestarcodex @Actuallykeltan It would make more sense if the author were actually referring to God.

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@nntaleb

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@Rainmaker1973 If it is sustainable and optimistic it can not be "punk".