2014 — 12 July: Saturday

Unusually1 for me, I've just ordered a CD I knew nothing about after hearing a track I knew nothing about on Brian Matthew's "Sounds of the 60s". It has provoked a whole host of "Amazon" recommendations that I knew nothing about, but there's no time to linger longer. I have breakfast to handle, a packed lunch to prep, and a place to be in less than an hour from now.

And I'm not even dressed yet.

On the basis...

... of trailers on IMDB, I've also pre-ordered three interesting-looking films:

Here's hoping. Now, where did I put yesterday's discovery, my little juicer?

Brushing to one side...

... the various titles I have featuring the (excellent) photography of Helmut Newton, I find I'm left with just four2 that feature Isaac Newton:

Books featuring Isaac Newton

However, as soon as I read the piece by Sarah Dry I knew I now wanted to add her book to my little 'proper' Newtonian space. Source and snippet:

Scholarly editing is lonely, painstaking and often tedious work, rarely acknowledged and generally ill-paid. Furthermore, it is existentially challenging. In order to interpret unfinished, ambiguous and often contradictory writings, editors must get as close as possible to their subjects. They must study what their subjects studied and learn how they thought, but then they must stop themselves from overreaching acts of imaginative transference, from presuming to think on behalf of their subject. Scholarly editing requires very clever people to imaginatively subordinate themselves to even cleverer people.
With Newton, the paradigmatic genius, the problem is especially acute.

Sarah Dry in Prospect


Good grief, it's already 19:07 and I need to restoke the fires of the Inner Man. Sharpish. Mike kindly lent me a film that I'm very much looking forward to watching but I know from bitter experience that if I ignore the issue of food I will regret it. <Sigh>

  

Footnotes

1  Honest. This is the first time I've ever done this. Today.
2  And the Klawans is a stretch, since Newton only gets a handful of pages.