dorion back from paying off a bit of sleep debt and a long city runwalk to mix in some sun and endorphins with the afterglow of this morning's comments and article ; now to work on the responses.
diana_coman: dorion: do ask /speak up if there's anything.
diana_coman: whaack: to add to your Odyssey-reading: http://trilema.com/2014/the-bicameral-world-in-one-room-the-city-dump-in-the-other-room-the-starred-restaurant-do-these-talk-to-each-other-read-on-to-find-out/
whaack: diana_coman: Thank you, that article is going to take more than a minute to digest.
diana_coman: whaack: certainly; and since you mentioned it as if it was surprising, have this one too: http://trilema.com/2017/re-reading-is-the-most-powerful-tool/
whaack: diana_coman: aha no, it was not surprising!
diana_coman: good then :)
whaack: diana_coman: I suffered from some spinning while I was typing ~ "and i'll read the re-reading article too, i've already read it once!"
diana_coman: whaack: what's the worry? no need to even count the re-readings anyway; just re-read when needed/it's time comes again, that's all.
whaack: diana_coman: the irony of only having once read an article about rereading
diana_coman: whaack: heh; so start with that, have a laugh at yourself and you'll even remember it next time perhaps.
whaack: diana_coman: will do. I reread An Outpost of Progress, I caught one foreshadowing easter egg he places for the second go around, I would not be surprised if there are more that I may catch on a third pass. I also have a few pieces by Kafka in dead tree here, from my understanding his stories are in part built for rereading.
diana_coman: whaack: whether "built for" as in the author's intention is immaterial since you can't actually know either way; the important part though is that anything worth reading is worth re-reading and in this sense, sure, all literature is written to be re-read; you can easily argue that it's precisely that the definition of literature (expanding re-read to carry over centuries, not only individuals).
jfw: BingoBoingo: yeah I gotta step up on my asking things. Re the Punta Trouville, how would you recommend booking - can they make a reservation by phone or email and take cash on arrival?
BingoBoingo: jfw: They've done that before, but it's been more than a year since I've been there. I've always offered some sort of card when I reserved in advance. Mind that December through February 15th is the high season. Most of my interactions with them have been in the tourism off season.
BingoBoingo: jfw: Since you are arriving in the morning, I recommend calling anyways to make sure you have a place to park you bags and do your acute recovery rituals for having been on an airplane.
jfw: The flight is arriving just after midnight, so I do need the extra night and the question that comes to mind is more about checkin or shuttle service at that hour
BingoBoingo: Yeah, call and ask.
BingoBoingo: And at that hour, might as well just get a SIM card at the airport when you land.
jfw: aight
BingoBoingo: That way if you get lost, need anything delivered etc, you can reach me or the hotel
jfw: alright so the Spanish was more or less comprehensible, they can do cash but needed Visa/Mastercard/Amex for security, midnight checkin not a problem, $52/night sin desyuno, notbad, and sounds like there's an airport shuttle ~$35.
diana_coman: I gather I might not need to read 1k words on suitcases after all; good.
jfw: :)
BingoBoingo: Not bad at all for December. Down ~10 USD since 2017. For food needs, there's a 24 hour mega gas station around the corner on the same block. Decent grocery section and a small cafe carveout.
jfw: nice
BingoBoingo: There's more expensive hotels in nominally better locations with much poorer night logistics.