{"id":838,"date":"2004-02-10T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T15:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2004-02-10T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T15:51:52","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-this-mans-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"what is wrong with this man&#8217;s brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new bookshelf in my office, placed there in an attempt to stave off melancholy. The top shelf is furnished with books which had fossilised by my bedside &#8212; that being a place to which books are often carried and only removed when I can&#8217;t see the floor. From Left to right. the top shelf reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Mary Kenny: Goodbye to Catholic Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Kotre: White Gloves (a book on senility and memory)<\/li>\n<li>Terence Deacon: The Symbolic Species<\/li>\n<li>Naomi Baron: Computer Languages, a guide for the perplexed<\/li>\n<li>A Member of the Aristocracy: Manners and Rules of Polite Society (1928: 14th edition)<\/li>\n<li>Susan Richards: Epics of everyday life<\/li>\n<li>Harry Potter: Hanging in Judgement (the death penalty, by a chaplain at Wormwood Scrubs)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Eisenmann: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians<\/li>\n<li>George Steiner: Grammars of Creation<\/li>\n<li>John D Macdonald: The Green Ripper<\/li>\n<li>Wilmut\/Campbell\/Tudge: The Second Creation<\/li>\n<li>John Gierach: Even Brook Trout get the Blues<\/li>\n<li>Garry Trudeau: He&#8217;s never heard of you, either (Doonesbury covering the 1980 election)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Walsh: John Paul II<\/li>\n<li>Neal Ascherson: Stone voices<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Brown: In the beginning was the Worm (the beautiful American hardback)<\/li>\n<li>Jack Vance: Cugel&#8217;s Saga<\/li>\n<li>Conor Cruise <span class=\"caps\">O&#8217;B<\/span>rien: States of Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Putnam: Making Democracy Work<\/li>\n<li>Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: The biology of Peace and War<\/li>\n<li>Alison Jolly: Lucy&#8217;s Legacy<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">DBC<\/span> Pierre: Vernon God LIttle (from the goody bag at a Guardian books party)<\/li>\n<li>Frank Sawyer: Keeper of the stream<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Johnson: Lives of the Poets, vol 1<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Pages Guide: London Street Atlas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>melancholy continues to impend but at least typing this list did not entail thinking about religion.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new bookshelf in my office, placed there in an attempt to stave off melancholy. The top shelf is furnished with books which had fossilised by my bedside &#8212; that being a place to which books are often &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}