Cogito, Ergo Sumana for 2010 July 16 (entry 0)

# (1) 16 Jul 2010, 11:14AM: (I Say, While Reading About Zombies): Last night I was told that if you read Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France side by side with Paine's Rights of Man you get two different perspectives on the French Revolution and it's really cool. When I say this it sounds like I'm recommending putting pop rocks in your Diet Coke, doesn't it.

Comments:

Posted by Yatima at 16 Jul 2010, 10:33PM

Apparently you get the same stereophonic effect from Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety and Simon Schama's Citizens, although I've yet to read the latter. Also for Paris in the 20s, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Also for the Revolution, this and anything else...