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Urbane Guerrilla · 01-18-2007, 11:48 PM

Every now and then when I really need to get things back into perspective, I read either astronomy or geology -- popular works, that is. ATM, it's John McPhee's Annals of the Former World -- dipping (if not striking

-- hammerheaded geologists' joke [geoke?] ) into its five books in no particular order, just here and there, finished Rising From The Plains last night.

Five books, about rocks, almost entirely about rocks -- and he makes the formations and the rocks sing.

01-18-2007, 11:48 PM	#689
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Every now and then when I really need to get things back into perspective, I read either astronomy or geology -- popular works, that is. ATM, it's John McPhee's Annals of the Former World -- dipping (if not striking -- hammerheaded geologists' joke [geoke?] ) into its five books in no particular order, just here and there, finished Rising From The Plains last night. Five books, about rocks, almost entirely about rocks -- and he makes the formations and the rocks sing. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.