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Originally Posted by The Batlord
... my grandmother was always "meema" cause she's my grandmother and she gets called whatever I called her as a child...
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^ Is that a thing that people do in the US? I always thought it was a unique name invented by Sheldon Cooper.
I called my mom "Mum" until my adult sisters made the switch to "Mother" at which point I became self-conscious about what I was saying, and pretty much avoided calling her anything. (so not something I am particularly proud of.)
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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy
I’ve been reading texts on Brian Eno for years, and thought it might be a good idea to start tracking all of the books in my library. I compiled data from biographical websites, from my Goodreads account, and my physical and digital libraries and secured copies of books from around the world to build as complete a library as I was able.
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^ This is so completely the opposite of how I select books!
For decades, I too used to choose books on a pretty logical, follow-up-on-that-topic, basis, but now this is my usual selection technique: go to the one place in my city that has second-hand English-language books and buy something that I consider to be remotely readable by my standards. This method turns up a real scattershot of random material, and although I haven't come across
The Last of The Mohicans, I entirely approve, and a while ago found and finished
Little Women, which is kind of similar league I guess - though weed gets no mention.
And, yes, Mindfulness, Eno is a legend, mainly for being a pioneer of ambient music. He reached that exhaulted status after starting out with Roxy Music and then making a couple of nice poppy/rock solo albums. Here's a tongue-in-cheek track from before his serious commitment to ambient:-
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"I never got a letter back" 