Sunset Intersection: '16 Lists

February 25, 2017

'16 Lists

Like every year:

Best films seen in 2016 (I watch most films on Sky television, so they will likely be from past years):

Fury

Kingsman

La vie en rose

Joe

The Signal

True Story

Intersteller

Zero Theorem

Anomalisa

Best TV 2016: (besides last year's list)

Rectify

Westworld

Billions

Foyle's War

Extant

Endeavour

Dicte (Danish)

Best books 2016 (excepting research):

Ramayana

Later the Same Day, Grace Paley

The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley

Make-Believe, David Mamet

The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett

A Modern Instance, William Dean Howells

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, George Saunders

Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood

Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer

Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard

The Abundance, Annie Dillard

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Beyond the Post-Modern Mind, Huston Smith

"As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves. Only the slightest of barriers separates us from our sacred unconscious; it is infinitely close to us. But we are infinitely far from it, so for us the barrier looms as a mountain that we must remove with our own hands. We scrape away at the earth, but in vain; the mountain remains. Still we go on digging at the mountain, in the name of God or whatever. For the most part we only hear of the final truth; very rarely do we actually see it. The mountain isn't there. It never was there."

Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

"Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else--pathway to the stars, maybe.

I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun."

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February 25, 2017

'16 Lists

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