# Currently Reading **URL:** \ **Category:** The Learning Zone\ **Created:** [February 17, 2026, 10:47am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59 "2026-02-17T10:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Javi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/javi/32/933_2.png) [@Javi](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Javi)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/122 "2026-07-26T05:43:29Z")
_The Legend of the Holy Drinker_ by Joseph Roth. ---
**Author:** ![Banno](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/banno/32/55_2.png) [@Banno](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Banno)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/123 "2026-07-30T03:22:37Z")
A friend is dying; he who put to me the _Rubaiyat_ of Omar Kahyyan. > And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press > End in what All begins and ends in–Yes; > Think then you are To-day what Yesterday > You were - Tomorrow You shall not be less. We are never less than ever we were, and yet are still clay. ---
**Author:** ![Javi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/javi/32/933_2.png) [@Javi](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Javi)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 5:04am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/124 "2026-07-30T05:04:50Z")
I’m sorry to hear that, Banno. A beautiful poem, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Banno](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/banno/32/55_2.png) [@Banno](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Banno)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 5:55am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/125 "2026-07-30T05:55:07Z")
Thanks - he’s in his nineties, on a morphine pump and unconscious, so peacefully moving on. We should be so lucky… Wife found a copy of Fitzgerald’s first version, illustrated lavishly and sometimes lasciviously by Virgil Burnet. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![j\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@j\_j](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/j_j)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 6:18am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/126 "2026-07-30T06:18:45Z")
I found an old paperback of a bio of Mozart by Marcia Davenport. I can’t compare it to other bios, but it’s a great little book. I don’t know his music that well, but Hesse uses him as a important symbol in _Steppenwolf,_ basically as one of the “immortals.” This is one of my reasons for buying it. Hesse is so passionate about music in that novel and in _The Glass Bead Game_ — and such a great novelist — that I trusted him and thought it was finally time to reduce my ignorance on Wolferl, brother of Nannerl. I just ejected Spotify from my life, so now I’m buying cds from thrift stores, getting great classical and jazz albums for almost nothing. Of course I’m on the hunt for Mozart’s work. If anyone has suggestions, I all ears. I can say that I tend to like fewer instruments. Maybe it’s because entire orchestras don’t translate well for listening in the car ( my primary listening situation.) ---
**Author:** ![Pantagruel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/pantagruel/32/472_2.png) [@Pantagruel](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Pantagruel)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 11:15am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/127 "2026-07-31T11:15:58Z")
_The Ego as Cause_ by John Dewey _The Good Life Handbook: Epictetus’ Stoic Classic Enchiridion_ ---
**Author:** ![Javi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/javi/32/933_2.png) [@Javi](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Javi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 5:21am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/128 "2026-08-02T05:21:42Z")
_A house in the Country_ by José Donoso. ---
**Author:** ![Pantagruel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/pantagruel/32/472_2.png) [@Pantagruel](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Pantagruel)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/129 "2026-08-02T11:04:21Z")
_The New Leviathan_ by R.G. Collingwood ---
**Author:** ![Existentialism97](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/existentialism97/32/1215_2.png) [@Existentialism97](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Existentialism97)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/130 "2026-08-03T22:47:06Z")
- _ **Continental Philosophy since 1750** _ - Robert Solomon - _ **The Jesuit Reading of Confucius** _ - Thierry Maynard (Rereading) - _ **Nineteen Lectures on Philosophy** _ – Mou Zongsan ## ---
**Author:** ![Wayfarer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/wayfarer/32/123_2.png) [@Wayfarer](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Wayfarer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/131 "2026-08-09T03:00:34Z")
PATRICK AIDAN HEELAN: THE OBSERVABLE — Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics ---
**Author:** ![Paine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@Paine](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Paine)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/132 "2026-08-14T14:54:29Z")
_The Recognitions_ by William Gaddis ---
**Author:** ![Javi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/javi/32/933_2.png) [@Javi](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Javi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/133 "2026-08-15T08:09:54Z")
_Isaiah Has Come_ by László Krasznahorkai. ---
**Author:** ![Maw](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/maw/32/444_2.png) [@Maw](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Maw)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/134 "2026-08-16T03:08:13Z")
Haven’t read this, but love Krasznahorkai. _The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World_ by David W. Anthony ---
**Author:** ![Jamal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/jamal/32/95_2.png) [@Jamal](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Jamal)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/135 "2026-08-19T18:26:24Z")
Recent and current: - Robert Aickman, _The Unsettled Dust_, _Dark Entries_, _Compulsory Games_. - Manuel Mujica Lainez, _Bomarzo_. I had not heard of this till recently. Looks like my kind of thing. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Monster_in_Parco_dei_Mostri_%28Bomarzo%29.jpg/960px-Monster_in_Parco_dei_Mostri_%28Bomarzo%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=thumbnail) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Monster_in_Parco_dei_Mostri_%28Bomarzo%29.jpg/960px-Monster_in_Parco_dei_Mostri_%28Bomarzo%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=thumbnail) Orcus in the Gardens of Bomarzo, Italy ---
**Author:** ![Baden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/baden/32/109_2.png) [@Baden](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Baden)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/136 "2026-08-19T18:55:34Z")
> [@Jamal](#): > > - Robert Aickman, _The Unsettled Dust_, _Dark Entries_, _Compulsory Games_. This caught my eye. Some of his work is available as audiobooks on YouTube, which is my current preferred method of reading fiction. I’m giving it a whirl. ---
**Author:** ![Huston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@Huston](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Huston)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 4:03am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/137 "2026-08-21T04:03:00Z")
~Heraclitus: A Study of the Energetic Core of His Philosophy by Oswalt Spengler ~The Kybalion ~Leviathan and it’s Enemies by Sam Francis ---
**Author:** ![Javi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/javi/32/933_2.png) [@Javi](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Javi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 5:11am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/138 "2026-08-21T05:11:42Z")
I really enjoyed **Krasznahorkai** – the book is a short story of just 50 pages long, but it is too intense and beautifully written. Looking forward to reading more about him, a well-deserved Nobel laureate. * * * My next book: _A Song of Truth and Semblance_ by Cees Noteboom. ---
**Author:** ![Hanover](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/hanover/32/38_2.png) [@Hanover](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Hanover)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/139 "2026-08-22T18:17:07Z")
![20260822_141244](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/uploads/thephilosophyforum/original/2X/a/ac0db7761cf2eff8e114a63e74eab4433aaf1d38.jpeg) Reading _The Russian Revolution, A New History_ by Sean McMeekin. Note the appropriate lenin pants. Get it? Lenin. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![praxis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@praxis](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/praxis)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/140 "2026-08-23T20:14:09Z")
A bit more appropriate… ![Firefly_Gemini Flash_change the color of the pants to red 586375](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/uploads/thephilosophyforum/original/2X/2/22db8d441b57e4c55035544330ca5a7440bcb77a.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Banno](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/www.thephilosophyforum.com/banno/32/55_2.png) [@Banno](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Banno)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59/141 "2026-08-26T00:52:07Z")
Read _Seven brief lessons on physics_ (Rovello) on a flight from Brisbane yesterday. It was very slight. Apparently that was the point. [Previous page](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59.md?page=6) [Next page](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/currently-reading/59.md?page=8)