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atheism, Ayn Rand, book spine poem, Douglas Adams, evolution, Frank Herbert, hitchhiker, Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Matt Ridley, memes, Michael Crichton, Poem, Poetry, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Robert Shapiro, science, science fiction, Susan Blackmore, Umberto Eco, William Gibson, William Golding
The Meaning of It All
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The meaning of it all, foundation – the agile gene, The runaway brain, the meme machine. What character is that? The naked ape, The seven daughters of Eve, At the water’s edge, The river out of Eden. Comanche moon, Ornamental metal casting, Guns, germs, and steel. The Lord of the flies. |
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Atlas shrugged Foucault’s Pendulum, The white plague, The red queen, Electronic devices Unweaving the rainbow. Suspended Animation. |
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Next, Hacking, the art of exploitation, The elements of artificial intelligence. The Fountainhead. Programming the universe, the elegant universe, The roots of coincidence, the electric meme. The ghost in the machine. Spook country. |
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Atlas shrugged chemical evolution. The gripping hand redesigning humans, The human blueprint, The Fountainhead Beyond this horizon — Immortality! We, the living, the invisible heart, live without a net, the restaurant at the end of the universe. |
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Where’s the Red Queen?….. 🙂
Middle book second stack.. thanks for stopping by.
Ah, got it…. thanks…. and you’re welcome…. 🙂
I love the Red Queen too – and all things Ridley. And Pinker too.
nice…quite some good stuff you’re having here…books can open up new worlds for us for sure..and now off to look for that restaurant at the end of the universe…smiles
It was a fun exercise. The books almost wanted to be sorted that way, seemed so natural, even their number, 42.
Now, if you’d slotted in a Terry Pratchett…say, The Truth, at the end, I might be inclined to reads more poetry. 🙂
Seems I don’t have a copy of that…. ;(
I must say, allusion poems to things obscure are not my favorites — but this one is cute only because I have read most of these.
Thanks for reading, Sabio.. not as much for reading the poem, but the books.
🙂