I borrowed a book from a teacher's book shelf in high school and it had notes about her plans to divorce her husband along with her reasons for doing so.
What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
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#342Long and personal dedicace from General De Gaulle to a Free French fighter.
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#343I once took a critical thinking course and bought the textbook 2nd hand from the college bookstore. A week or two in, I noticed half of a sentence written in the margin. As the professor started teaching the topic from that page, he rhetorically asked a question, did not get an answer, and then answered himself with the sentence from the book. I filliped ahead and found that the entire book was annotated with all of…
Talk about critical thinking...
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#346The wonderful book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki contains a page which is blank except for a drawing of a fly in one corner. Nowhere else in the book is it mentioned or any explanation provided. Having practiced Zen for 10 years, I have an idea that might explain it. But on the surface, it is completely strange and inexplicable.
Clear your mind to observe the small things.
Alt: Pay attention to edge cases.
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This is like the Harry Potter book where Harry gets Voldemorts old potions notebook. It made him a star pupil too. Do you have a scar on your eyebrow?
That's the sixth book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". But if I recall correctly, the original owner of the book, the Half-Blood Prince, was none other than Snape, not Voldemort.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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#348I once took a critical thinking course and bought the textbook 2nd hand from the college bookstore. A week or two in, I noticed half of a sentence written in the margin. As the professor started teaching the topic from that page, he rhetorically asked a question, did not get an answer, and then answered himself with the sentence from the book. I filliped ahead and found that the entire book was annotated with all of…
That's basically the plot of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!
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that's a great story. before the internet there were no easy ways to find others who were into computers. as far as i can remember i was the only one in my school who would hang out in the schools computer room after classes. i am pretty sure there were other kids in other schools that were interested in computers, but i had no way of finding them. meeting someone like that would have been great.
We used to place ads in a newspaper to find fellow Commodore/Amiga/Spectrum/Atari users to trade games with. It was not uncommon that my Saturdays involved my parents dropping me off at some random person's house (which might or might not have been my age) and picking me up a few hours later.
This scene was incredibly strong in Norway back in the days, speaking as a then-teenager there.
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> he didn’t know anything about books and was more interested in disposing of the books than making money from the sale. This reminds me of one of the strangest things I ever read in the books: My Arabic Library About eighteen months before I arrived in Iraq, one of my predecessors had ordered My Arabic Library, $88,000 worth of books, an entire shipping container. My Arabic Library was a Bush-era, US government–wide…
> And the thought that somebody could just waste my yearly taxes on nothing - was very strange and disturbing. I've been told the US military is a veritable cornucopia of waste.
To be fair, Van Buren (and My Arabic Library project) was not in the military. He was in the State Department.