What were my reading interests fifteen years ago when I visited my last Friends of the Library Book Sale? (See previous post.) As always, they were eclectic and diverse. Naturally, American history was a key interest then. At the sale on October 12, 1995, I bought, among many other books, the following:
*Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (1991), by Michael Kammen
*The Best and the Brightest (1972), by David Halberstam
Here appear occasional jottings of my random musings. Profound or jejune, they reveal the contours of my mental universe, with world history, intellectual history, civilizations, philosophy, religion, society, knowledge, and books as some major themes. Since May 2011, this blog has been exclusively focused on Singapore. All my other reflections are now posted in "Notes from Noosphere" (see link under "Miscellany" on the right margin).
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