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Originally posted by PBE6
Kinky. 😕 But you met the criteria, so I'm going to search for it.
Think maybe I badly garbled Collins' title.
Try... 'Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes'.
Sounds kinky but isn't. Guy is a sophisticated
New Yorker with an eye and ear for the most
universal and common of things. Would say
a healthy 60-70 % of his work is memorable.

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Recommended.

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
Ah, another classic I've heard about but never read. I'll have to check this one out too. Good read?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Try... 'Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes'.
Sounds kinky but isn't.
Wow! Now that's kinky. 😉

I think we've all harboured the desire to wear a top hat and monocle on a lunch run to Katz's deli. I will endeavour to find this poem of which you speak, and read it at my leisure.

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes


http://www.julianjaynes.org/bicameralmind.php

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Originally posted by PBE6
Ah, another classic I've heard about but never read. I'll have to check this one out too. Good read?
GEB is more than a good read.. it's an epic. Be prepared to devote a good chunk of your life to it, with every second well spent.

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Originally posted by widget
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes


http://www.julianjaynes.org/bicameralmind.php
Interesting subject matter, according to the link and the Wikipedia summary. After reading "How The Mind Works" and "The Blank Slate", I'm a little skeptical of the rapidity of this evolutionary leap (only 5000 thousand years from widespread stupid to widespread smart?), some of the implications of Jaynes' "right brain/left brain interaction" and a few other things, but I have heard a psychologist from Carleton University lecture on the effects of anesthetizing different parts and even hemispheres of the brain, and the apparent disconnects between action and memory in these situations. Of course, these were explained by the lack of communication between the sleeping memory relayers and the parts of the brain "doing the driving".

This will probably be a library loaner. Good suggestion!

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"Why do men have nipples?" by Mark Leyner M.D. and Billy Goldberg.

It will answer lots of questions you've never been able to find the answers to like, "why does poo float? and "If I masturbate more than twenty times a week am I less likely to get Prostate Cancer?"

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
"Why do men have nipples?" by Mark Leyner M.D. and Billy Goldberg.

It will answer lots of questions you've never been able to find the answers to like, "why does poo float? and "If I masturbate more than twenty times a week am I less likely to get Prostate Cancer?"
I can answer the last one already - so far, so good! 😵

Sounds pretty neat, though. I'll look for it at the bookstore.

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
"If I masturbate more than twenty times a week am I less likely to get Prostate Cancer?"
The suspense is killing me. What's the answer?

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Originally posted by Palynka
The suspense is killing me. What's the answer?
Buy the book. I did and I know the answer.

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Buy the book. I did and I know the answer.
Thanks. 😞

I guess I'll try to find out empirically.

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Originally posted by Palynka
Thanks. 😞

I guess I'll try to find out empirically.
I'm sorry I didn't mean to sound mean.😳 But I'm sure you'll find that your way is, if nothing, a lot more satisfying than me giving you the answer.

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
I'm sorry I didn't mean to sound mean.😳 But I'm sure you'll find that your way is, if nothing, a lot more satisfying than me giving you the answer.
This thread is turning out kinkier than expected. 😕 Anybody got a tissue? 😳

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
I'm sorry I didn't mean to sound mean.😳 But I'm sure you'll find that your way is, if nothing, a lot more satisfying than me giving you the answer.
Just joking. The book sounds interesting, but I know I'll probably forget about it after 1 hour.