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20-08-2011 19:20 20-08-2011 19:20 I read these three comic book albums some 20 years ago. They are absolutely fantastic. They contain very passionate and violent images, combined with some scenes of kindness and affection that stand out by comparison. Esotheric and biblical elements are located in the roughness of southwesternern USA.

The story is based very strongly on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke and gives it a completely new dimension. The same is done with a song of Laurie Anderson. These techniques are woven into the story so naturally that it awakens a strong sense of fascination.

What I will do here is analyze the work as much as my limited mind can handle and add some links to informational places on the internet. lees verder

17-04-2011 21:34 17-04-2011 21:34 I read this book, because I was looking at Minsky's "The Emotion Machine" on Amazon and some reviewer wrote that it was odd that Minsky didn't quote LeDoux because his book was supposedly the "de ... lees verder

01-09-2009 21:09 01-09-2009 21:09 Ik heb de nederlandse uitgave van The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell) gelezen. De ondertitel is "De oorspronkelijke betekenis van de verhalen uit de godsdienst en mythologie." en dat ... lees verder

25-05-2007 20:18 25-05-2007 20:18 By Douglas Hofstadter, Basic Books, 2007. I read Hofstadter's magnum opus, "Gödel, Escher, Bach", when I was about 16 years of age. Looking back, it's still an amazing piece of work. ... lees verder

05-02-2007 21:31 05-02-2007 21:31 The Workspace of the Mind lees verder

28-12-2006 22:27 28-12-2006 22:27 A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's daughter and Her Description of the First Computer lees verder

12-11-2006 19:19 12-11-2006 19:19 An insider's Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel By Michael S. Tomczyk I kissed the book when I received it :) This book is very rare in its kind. It is about Commodore Business Machines at the ... lees verder