Bookcrossing

[orinoco77]

Just sorted out my first bookcrossing victim. It will be left in Henry J. Bean's Bar and Grill in the Printworks in Manchester this Saturday. It is a copy of Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" in translation. This book, and a particularly good, though often incomprehensible, lecturer, got me hooked on philosophy at uni and I'd rather like to get someone else similarly ensnared. In an act of sheer nostalgia, I will most likely have to pay a visit to Waterstones or similar to buy myself another copy :)

If Descartes goes down well, I think I might strategically place Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus" somewhere it's likely to find some poor unsuspecting mind to crawl into.

Comments

[assassinscloak.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous idea!

There used to be a pub in our town center that had a sort of library and reading room, I miss that pub, there were some wonderful books in it.

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

Well, if you think Mancs can handle philosophy*, go for it ... my money's on Tony Wilson picking it up (and then pretending he understands it)

* A Manc's usual idea of a philosophical question is "Who are you lookin at?" Who indeed.

[orinoco77.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping it will only be picked up by someone of an inquiring mind, since it doesn't have pictures, feature smut or have anything to do with football. I am one of life's optimists, I know.

[orinoco77.livejournal.com]

A pub where you can read sounds like a bloody brilliant idea.

[assassinscloak.livejournal.com]

http://www.eyorks.com/hullpub/oneills.html

I think it's gone now, I believe there's something wine-barish in it's place.

It's a shame, I loved the idea of having bits of an old library in a pub, just my sort of thing.