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Life seems to vary between and (fairly often)

Overall, watching the world

my answers to your questions are:

? illness ? Berlin, Sydney, San Francisco ? peace of mind ? misinterpretations ? Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn ? Churchill ? Jean d'Arc ? Jean d'Arc ? Chagall, Miro ? Mozart, Bruckner ? Integrity ? Integrity, beauty ? Integrity ? diving ? myself, but more relaxed ? curiosity ? loyalty ? curiosity ? a night at the sea listening to the waves and watching the sky ? illness ? wise ? blue ? wild field flowers ? eagle ? Irving ? Rilke ? peasants in the 3. world ? Tecumseh ? Anna, David ? cruelty ? crusaders (of all kinds) ? Warsaw ghetto uprising ? democracy ? ability to fly ? instantous ? melancholic optimism ? principii obstant

... some books I like

• Edgerton, R.B. (1992). Sick societies. Challenging the myth of primitive harmony. New York: Free Press.
• Irving, J. (1989). A prayer for Owen Meany. New York: Ballantine.
• Nozick, R. (1993). The nature of rationality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Simmel, G. (1907). Philosophie des Geldes (2nd ed.) [The philosophy of money]. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot (reprinted 1989 Frankfurt: Suhrkamp).
• Tainter, J.A. (1988). The collapse of complex societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Thomas, H. (1986). The Spanish civil war. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Thomas, H. (1997). Slave trade. New York: Simon & Schuster.

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