Meanderings

Can't really see the point of this. Not a great selection of quotes. No sources, so of no use for reference.

I stared to realize while reading your book that all i do is meander about things while of course telling a story.
I like your mind set.
Take care and best of luck..
Sincerely,
Eric Shira

Hello McLean,

Thank you for taking the time to write such a lovely explanation. Please allow me to assure you that I did read well into Chapter 2 (politics) before making my comment. My point was simply that when standing in the bookstore (or the library) the book that comes with me is the one that 'speaks' to me on page 1. I believe that I should find your aphorisms uplifting but I don't. I have this feeling that they are all sliding downhill when I think that they should be sliding uphill. Somehow, your wonderful explanation is not reflected in your book. Just because it is not for me, doesn't mean that it is not for other readers. I did read the same amount again and sorry, still didn't hear the 'ding'! Good luck to you though and thanks again, Annemarie.

Hello McLean,

Thank you for taking the time to write such a lovely explanation. Please allow me to assure you that I did read well into Chapter 2 before making my comment. My point was simply that when standing in the bookstore (or the library) the book that comes with me is the one that 'speaks' to me on page 1. I believe that I should find your aphorisms uplifting but I don't. I have this feeling that they are all sliding downhill when I think that they should be sliding uphill. Somehow, your wonderful explanation is not reflected in your book. Just because it is not for me, doesn't mean that it is not for other readers. I did read the same amount again and sorry, still didn't hear the 'ding'! Good luck to you though and thanks again, Annemarie.

Hello, I usually like this type of book and can sit down and read through it like I would a novel or factual book but this one does not ring my bell. In the first chapter I think that you are trying to praise womanhood but there seems to be an underlying current which tells me that you are not - bricks and cabbages? Is your tongue in your cheek? Is it meant to be funny?The overall feeling that it give me is that it is lightweight - too much so to be of any effect. Sorry but I wouldn't buy it from looking at the front page and that is what sells a book to me - your audience may well be out there but I regret to say that it doesn't include me because I don't feel that I am gaining anything from it. Annemarie

Hi, Annemarie,
I was not trying to be flippant or ironic with the "bricks and cabbages" comment - I used the phrase to describe the essential difference of the sexes. I was not comparing woman (or, for that case man) to cabbages or bricks, only suggesting that we are not the same (as contemporary society infers). The modern concept of "equality" seems to want to wish away these things. As I have written elsewhere (but not in the work here on Authonomy), women are superior to men in many ways, but feminism emphasises none of these. (I'll list a few: women are more caring, emotionally intelligent, gentle, affectionate & as is shown by the dismal history of the past several millenia of patriarchy, the better choice to direct society - there is little come down to history about matriarchies, because history is made up in large part of war, invasion, genocide and incessant, fruitless doing, rather than being - the which are man's predilections). Rather, it sees woman's value as something determined by how closely she approximates man. The sexes are not equal - that is an error of language and conception - but they are of the same value, just as 2 + 2 and 3 + 1 both add up to 4.
Perhaps having read this explanation, you will be inclined to have another look, this time beyond page 1, or perhaps not - whichever,
Good luck,
MacLean.

Hello, I usually like this type of book and can sit down and read through it like I would a novel or factual book but this one does not ring my bell. In the first chapter I think that you are trying to praise womanhood but there seems to be an underlying current which tells me that you are not - bricks and cabbages? Is your tongue in your cheek? Is it meant to be funny?The overall feeling that it give me is that it is lightweight - too much so to be of any effect. Sorry but I wouldn't buy it from looking at the front page and that is what sells a book to me - your audience may well be out there but I regret to say that it doesn't include me because I don't feel that I am gaining anything from it. Annemarie

This list reminds me of what earlier ages referred to as aphorisms or sententiae, often placing them on the walls of great halls and libraries. In book form, I'm wondering how (or if) you intend to leave them seemingly random or of some attempt in the future will be made to link them into a cohesive whole--or, at least, a more apparent whole.