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The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in the Seattle Public Library

18 points by Vigier 12y ago

arca_vorago 12y ago
It's an interesting read, but the author leaves us all hanging without any closure. What else did he talk about in the manuscript? Is it published yet? Have you scanned it yet, and if not why not? If I lived in Seattle I would hasten to go take a read but the world doesn't live in Seattle... and the attempts at making it a thought provoking ponderence leave us with very little substance or data. All I can do is say "very interesting" and move on with my day because there's nothing else to follow up on. I count two links in total, one supposedly about the architecture of the Seattle Public Library, but I don't know because it's broken, and another a link to a wikipedia page. And what's with the random pictures of astronomy? Did they come from the manuscript or are they just randomly inserted by the author for "flavor"? All in all this is a horribly written article that needs heavy revision, and I don't understand why it is here on HN.
- lfmunoz4 12y ago
  I agree that the article leaves us hanging, author should have gone into more detail about what the guys theory was. So there is a "crazy" guy that goes to the library, the end. So there is a "crazy" guy that goes to the library and has a theory that the world is .... The authors one job was to explain this strange guys theory because no one else will look through it. The author failed at that.
lmm 12y ago
It's the ramblings of an ill man, very evidently so. The description sounds exactly like that of a schizophrenic (compare the sparrowOS/templeOS guy). As I said on that thread, this is not a state we should romanticize or aspire to.
- stefantalpalaru 12y ago
  Aspire to? Of course not. But you might learn something new about the disease like the high IQ level of some schizophrenics that manage to construct alternate realities with fascinating internal logic.

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The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in the Seattle Public Library

18 points by Vigier 12y ago

arca_vorago 12y ago
It's an interesting read, but the author leaves us all hanging without any closure. What else did he talk about in the manuscript? Is it published yet? Have you scanned it yet, and if not why not? If I lived in Seattle I would hasten to go take a read but the world doesn't live in Seattle... and the attempts at making it a thought provoking ponderence leave us with very little substance or data. All I can do is say "very interesting" and move on with my day because there's nothing else to follow up on. I count two links in total, one supposedly about the architecture of the Seattle Public Library, but I don't know because it's broken, and another a link to a wikipedia page. And what's with the random pictures of astronomy? Did they come from the manuscript or are they just randomly inserted by the author for "flavor"? All in all this is a horribly written article that needs heavy revision, and I don't understand why it is here on HN.
- lfmunoz4 12y ago
  I agree that the article leaves us hanging, author should have gone into more detail about what the guys theory was. So there is a "crazy" guy that goes to the library, the end. So there is a "crazy" guy that goes to the library and has a theory that the world is .... The authors one job was to explain this strange guys theory because no one else will look through it. The author failed at that.
lmm 12y ago
It's the ramblings of an ill man, very evidently so. The description sounds exactly like that of a schizophrenic (compare the sparrowOS/templeOS guy). As I said on that thread, this is not a state we should romanticize or aspire to.
- stefantalpalaru 12y ago
  Aspire to? Of course not. But you might learn something new about the disease like the high IQ level of some schizophrenics that manage to construct alternate realities with fascinating internal logic.