Books
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I finally got to read this wonderful book and I cannot thank @Giles enough for bringing it into my life. I had no knowledge of Antarctic exploration and the history surrounding it, so this world was truly alien to me and I was immediately captivated. I’ll say this…the metaphor of the Endurance stuck in the ice and sinking hit me personally in ways I’ll have to write about in another thread on another day…but it was very powerful. And then there was this passage which echos many artists and creators I admire…
I want to record Orde-Lees recording of his sunset, because it is like a hand-print on a cave wall. We give beauty to the world by seeing it and loving it and saying
'this is beautiful. The world doesn't need us in order to exist, but it needs us in order to be beautiful, just as we need it in order to be purveyors of beauty. Through loving the world, we love ourselves into finer being. Neither of us, neither us nor the world, must be lost.This book has instantly become one of my favorites and I will read it often, continuing to play the infinite game. What an inspiration.
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Thank you. Funnily enough, we had friends around for dinner. Richard loves books, so I told him about Finding Endurance, and how much it had affected me and how much I loved it. I used the example of the finite and infinite game, as one of fundamental things I had learned from the book.
He took my copy home with him.
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Anyone else subjected themselves to this? It is, for the most part, competently written. The unpleasantness is so unrelenting that one becomes pretty much inured to it by the last third or so. I don't regret reading it, per se, but it is a miserable bloody thing that I am glad to be done with. I don't know why it exists and couldn't really recommend it.
Now I'm reading some Jeeves and Wooster. Way better
