New Wanderings/New Book

I'm very excited as I just happened upon a book description that caught my eye and I ordered the book through InterLibrary Loan. Lo and behold, if it doesn't arrive today from the Vancouver Public Library (shocking to me that such a little paperback isn't anywhere closer...). It's called The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita. Another Australian author. (I hope I can finish this one!) In the introduction, he promises a clash of philosophy and storytelling. He's very warm and encouraging...

My advice to the reader who finds some of the philosophical sections difficult is to read on, though slowly, and to return to the difficult sectons when she has finished the book, remembering that all philosophy benefits from, and most philosophy requires, more than one reading.

This reminds me of the old Talking Heads lyric (though I think Gaita meant no harm):

Oh the boys
want to talk
Like to to talk about those problems
And the girls
say they're concerned
And they are
concerned with these decisions

And it's all
Hard Logic
To follow and the
Girls get lost
And the boys
say they're concerned
But they are
concerned with these decisions

(I don't quite remember the lyrics this way but...this is what's on the TH website).

But read on! Don't be deterred by my slow reading, my distractions, my meanderings...

P.S. photo - as seen in the parking lot of Home Depot, Ancaster early Sunday morning, Oct 1. Driver looked nothing like DQ but did cast the evil eye at me as I photographed her car...