K wrote:Copehead wrote:Harvey K-Tel wrote:
This is really fantastic. A collection of aphorisms that honestly reads like a whole bunch of really well-written tweets. Highly recommended.
Some excerpts:
“The trouble with setting goals is that you’re constantly working toward what you used to want.”
“Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.”
“The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember; it's that you'll remember.”
Beer isn't distilled at all, stupid analogy, fancy putting that on the front of the book
The quote doesn't suggest beer is distilled. It suggests whisky is distilled.
Whisky isn't twice distilled either, it is generally continuously distilled until as much of the ethanol as possible is taken out of the distilling liquid. I was at Laphroig a year ago and saw the process. Some Whiskey is double or triple distilled but it doesn't make it better so I don't understand that at all. It smacks of trying to be over clever but not understanding your subject, something I know a lot about.
Face it, it is a crap analogy. Whisky not beer I get but why bring distillation into it and confuse matters?
Puts me off reading the book, if it is a book of aphorisms and the one of the front is stupid, even if the writer didn't write it, it suggests what's inside isn't worth your time.
I'll stick with Nietzsche or Camus.