It used to be said that there were these sadhus or ascetics with special powers that made them float over what ever they wanted to or put their mind to. These dudes were written about in ancient texts and tales told by grammies.
Now here comes a guy from Florida who just pulled a stunt to one up the sadhus. He walked with a pole on a rope over the Niagara Falls from the US to Canada This person has depicted many qualities -
1. Intense focus the likes of which you can see in a monk
2. Entreprenuerial zest to get a large publicity hungry American media giant to fork out over a $1M for the stunt that gets him more noteriety
3. Political skills to negotiate a bilateral agreement between US and Canada allowing him to perform such a feat
4. Dedication to his art
Truly if you set your mind to it you can pull out a rabbit out of a Red Bull (soda I mean)!
Kudos to this artist.
I attempted to read this book by author Chuck Klosterman backward to forward but it started hurting my brain so I decided to stop and do it like any other publication in the English language. Start from page 1 and move to the right. Witty, caustic and thought provoking this is a book you want to read if you believe that the status quo might, just might be wrong. At times bordering on being contrarian about most things around us it tries to zero in on the notion of what makes anything believable and certain in our minds. The fact that there is a fact itself is ironic. Something analogous to the idea that you can never predict the future because there is no future. Many books and movies have tried to play on this concept - best that I recollect (I think I am) was 'The Truman Show'. This book by Klosterman attempts to provoke the reader to at least contemplate that what they think they know may be wrong. He uses examples like concept of gravity, and how it ...
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