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February 14, 2005
The B'day Trip
Total Distance Traversed: 1800 miles
Total Time Elapsed: 60 hours
Cities visited: Lubbock, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Alberquerque, San Angelo
Speeding Tickets: 1
Collectibles Purchased: (In lieu of shot-glasses, postcards, etc I buy a used book at an independent book store): Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading purchased at Nick Potter's bookstore.
Books on Tape covered:
1. (6/8 CDs) The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
A little Hume, Berkeley, Comte, Spinoza. A lot of Schopenhauer, Kant, Nietzche. Way too much Spencer
Comments:
Hume: Word Bro! Out omnibus disputantem-ed Descarte. Made us re-think how we view causality.
Kant: a wuss. His "greatest achievement": restoring hope to epistemology after Hume's brilliant attack.
Schopenhauer: Pessimists such as us are always misunderstood. We are happy to be wrong!
Nietzche: He really should have listened to his own aphorism: If you look into the abyss too long, it looks back at you.
To Ponder: Which philosopher's death is better: Die at breakfast like Schopenhauer? Or like Camus in a car crash, pages of manuscript aflutter in the wind?
2. (4/8 CDs) Bride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
How did these guys [the British] rule the world? And still have time for tea and cricket and the occasional ball?
Notable Pictures:
Adobe style architecture. I think this was the fine arts museum.
Stained glass window at a church.
Santa Fe's artist scene. This was on Canyon road. I'd imagine you'd need a large garden to accomodate such a piece.
Vistas in O'Keefe country. I went for a drive in the area she lived in.
Who knew San Angelo was such a pretty town: Art Museum and River. Their visitor center and city facilities are very impressive. I suppose this is old oil money? I wonder what they have now.
The San Miguel Church - Oldest church in the US. They had some pictures of the church taken in the 19th century - roof blown off, etc. Very interesting.
I visited an Indian puebla. The ruins were not anything recognizable so I ended up taking a picture of this flower. The missionaries built a church in the puebla to coerce the "unsaved" souls.
