Oh boy!!! This is the most handsomely packaged paperback I've ever owned. Chris Ware is the artist, and he's done up the story on the front and back covers. Even the jacket flaps got some hot VOLTAIRE action. YES! One of my all-time favorite books! The smart-ass triumph of Reason! I am grinning, laffing, raising my fist. Candide! Cunegonde! Pangloss (Leibniz)! Cacambo! The Anabaptist! The Jesuits! All the action! I wread this when I was a teenager, with the French on one side, and the English on the other. This second go is even more wrewarding!
The Iliad got me going ... then on into The Odyssey ... then into the different studies of Homer, which brought me to this, one of the essential takes on the Greek mindset: The Discovery of the Mind by the mighty Bruno Snell. This is a monument of Greek studies. Every chapter roxx ass and makes me say, "Damn!" out loud. I'm learning so much here. All of Western thought began with the GREEKS. :) Yay!
YES! And YES again! Our boy Greg Palast has put together a modern masterwork of research and presentation. This level of horror and frustration shouldn't be this funny, but it is! And how! This book is important. We'll be going back to this one years from now. Of course, we aaaall should be reading it NOW. Here's Howard Zinn's quote: "One of the best tomes on politics written in modern days." It is too! It is!
