Everyman books are great. Very high quality for the price. Just copped the rise and fall of Teddy based on this video. Have you read "The river of doubt" about his journey through the amazon? I'm only 70 pages in so far, but it's very good. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving. Send my wishes to Lano. I'm a big fan. :^)
I haven’t read River of Doubt but it’s been on my radar for a while. One of the sequels to The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, titled Colonel Roosevelt, details both that trip and the African hunting expedition.
I watched about half of the videos on your channel today and enjoyed them greatly. Your narration is wonderful and it's nice to hear about what you've read. Great location videos too, loved the Nietzsche Switzerland video.
Thanks, I appreciate it. The Nietzsche video is one of my favorites and I’m glad I was able to visit there. (It was one of the last things I did before the pandemic happened.)
Awesome. If I ever manage to visit the States, Yosemite has to be on the bucket list. You Yanks really have been blessed with some great national parks.
Awesome Destri. I would love to keep a journal for my descendants so they know who I was. But then they would see my thoughts and feelings weren't that refined. Maybe better to keep the illusion!
I don't know you so what I write here does not involve you personally. However, you have brought up the question of the value of nostalgia understanding that nostalgia encompasses memory. I do not journal. I do, however, write what I refer to as stories of memories. In the middle of the nineties I did a monthly "newspaper" for a group of people in which I wrote about memories of past times, of people no longer around. I was in my middle forties at that time. There was an inward compulsion to share these stories with others. One thing I instinctively knew at the time but had not actually processed was the truth that we cannot know where we are going unless we know where we have been. In Jungian psychology there is the concept of the personal as well as the collective unconscious. Our future (a personal experience of life) is built upon the past (a collective experience of life). If we disregard the past, we omit valuable knowledge that can inform and direct our future life. There is a link that connects our past to our future. That link is memories. It has been my experience that when people turn from the past what is actually being done is they are turning away from some unresolved conflict from their past that they consciously decide to ignore. When the rationale for doing this is that there is nothing to be gained of a concrete nature, this is telling of the foundational character of that person. Unfortunately, in a very real sense, they have stepped away from emotions that connect them to humanity. Sadly, more often than not, it seems the motivation for doing this is not material gain. Rather, it is a turning away from something that gives them pain. Yet, growth cannot come if the source of the discomfort is not identified and dealt with. What I have found in my experience is that the pain is fleeting and cannot compare to the gifts that come from linking back to one's past. For that which has been lost over time comes back to us in another, more beneficial and humanistic form. And, it will live forever in our hearts if we will but let it. Many may scoff at this. I do not because I have experienced it in my life.
It is peculiar to see people who emphasize how much they do not think about ("dwell on" is usually the term they use) the past. As you say, there is likely a reason that they are doing so, and it may not simply be that they think it's a waste of time, but rather that they are avoiding painful memories. But of course it can go the other way as well-namely, people can turn toward the past because the present or future seems unpleasant in comparison. I suppose the forward-looking person at least has the advantage over the backward-looking person in the sense that the future may be shaped but the past may not be, and yet there seems to be something unhealthy about past avoidance.
Today one of your videos popped up in my recommendations. As a result of that, I've watched several of your videos. You are hilarious. I'm a fan of offbeat, low key humor. You post sporadically so I'm not sure your channel is active. I will say, however, I hope it is. You have an actual personality which, sadly, a lot of RU-vid providers don't have. For what it's worth, I hope you do continue posting. Your content is interesting and fun.
Penguin Little Black Classics were more than a marketing device, the short texts helped us read great writers with fresh eyes. I purchased about 50 of them, science, poetry, fiction, ancient literature, philosophy, mythology. Today they are hard to find. Are they worth it? To workers on minimum wages and to students, all books are expensive, which is why public libraries and used bookstores are so essential.
It’s definitely good if you’re looking for something specific, though when I lived in NYC I didn’t have much money and mostly shopped the bargain carts outside. Ended up finding a bunch interesting stuff out there including a late-1800s partial set of Carlyle’s works. My used book shopping experiences in the western U.S. now aren’t generally quite as interesting.
Been doing other things I suppose. Will be putting out some new stuff hopefully soon that I already have footage for, including videos about Pete's Tavern and the Strand Bookstore in NYC, the Hemingway House in Key West, and the Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Hope you're doing well.
@@galitnapusa5561 I haven't read all of it but so far so good. It's a mini-book series so all books contain about the same number of pages (54-58). It's a good buy.
Great video! I discovered the Penguin Modern classics pocket books few years ago, they're kind of a light green color, I found them in a small independent bookstore in Perth, Australia. The first one I bought has 3 Japanese short stories in it. I've just recently discovered the little black Penguin Classics that are sold in a kind of chain bookstore. Both types of these books are between $3-$5 Australian currency. I agree with your comment , people should calm down. I mean a book is a book and the enjoyment of reading and sharing should be enough!📚📖
I actually visited Sils Maria in the Summer of 2019, and got to see everything you saw without the snow! I made an album with some of my pictures if you want to check it out. m.imgur.com/gallery/Kbk7ST2 I ended up hiking in the surrounding mountains. One the most beautiful experiences of my life!
celebrates whitman's 200th anniversary? check. joyce and nietzsche literary trips? check. swole with classy gf? check. cosy funny videos with friends? check. this channel has it all. you are the most patrician booktuber.
Thanks. Considering doing another similar one (for another author; already have the footage) but unsure when. Sils Maria was one of those places, and there are so few, where the greatest of the place seemed to match the greatness of the artist who lived there, and where you can’t help but think that of course something amazing came from them being joined.
Ha! Oh man, I'm not sure if this was intended to appear as mockery, but it definitely came across that way to me, haha. The pretension of poetry just seems so farcical :P Hand to chest... you had me laughing. Sorry if that wasn't the intention... I agree though, no shoes are the best shoes, at least when there are no rocks. You ever read Steppenwolf? I'm really enjoying it right now.
I haven't read Steppenwolf, or much Hesse (except for Demian, which was recommended by a bookstore clerk and which I enjoyed). I have been meaning to read it for a while though as I've heard it has some allusions to Nietzsche, though of course since I haven't read it I'm not sure how accurate that is.
@@destrideneb Yeah, there are some allusions to him, but it's not super prominent. It mostly talks about how he must've lived a rather tortured life because he was so far ahead, and thus out of place and time. Part of the Steppenwolf treatise talks about Hell in those terms. It's more often about Mozart than Nietzsche though. I just finshed it. I would love to hear your thoughts. If you're interested in my review, it's here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3592718495?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1 I thought it was okay, in the end.
I highly recommend the Italian film adaptation of Martin Eden that came out last year. My favourite film from 2019. I can send you a link to it with subtitles if you’re interested.
I'd definitely be interesting in seeing it. When I found out about the film I was a bit surprised-Martin Eden struck me as a book that is powerful but which seems as though it would be difficult to make into a film that is equally good.
I buy them selectively (only bought ones I thought I'd be interested in), so they've all seemed pretty good. I picked up a couple more recently after having taken one with me to jury duty and re-discovering how handy the small size is on days when you don't want to carry a big book.
@@destrideneb , and what about the content? Are these worth buying ? Penguin has not disappointed me so far, but I would be making a huge investment buying all the 80. 😅
@@TheZweeky I haven't bought all 80-perhaps just 10 since I got them individually and not as a box set. I've thought recently about buying the whole set, but a lot of it includes generally famous works you could buy (or get from the library) pretty easily. Personally I wouldn't buy them for the content (which is published elsewhere) but for the small pocket-sized format if it's convenient and you want to take it for a read on the go. If you do buy the entire set, I don't think any of the content is poor as it was curated for the collection (i.e. Penguin wouldn't put unnecessarily bad works out for it.). There's no accounting for taste though.
