Comments on: Some recommendations for Franco’s ‘in flight’ reading

By: Andreas Moser

Andreas Moser — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:36:06 +0000

In reply to OldAloysian. Maltese politics remind me more of "Catch 22" than of "The Prince".

By: Andreas Moser

Andreas Moser — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:34:26 +0000

While I would not read this Tibetan Death Book (and have struggled to make any sense of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat and gave up on it very quickly), I am against setting an age limit at which certain books may be read. In fact, I think it is wise to take one’s time and wait with some of the classics.

[Daphne – How can you set an age limit on books? I thought you were a lawyer.]

By: John H

John H — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:41:10 +0000

In reply to OldAloysian. If people need to read The Prince to be aspiring politicians, then I weep for this country.

By: Patrik

Patrik — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:34:07 +0000

Oh what shame you put us through. I thought if I got a real job I would be allowed my pre-adolescent musings. I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull at the very least yearly, still enjoy video games and gives my daughter lego as an excuse for me to play with it.

Boys will be boys I suppose. Then again, even though I don’t hide that fact I wouldn’t flaunt it either (apart from publishing it here for everyone on internet to see of course).

By: Mich

Mich — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:54:16 +0000

Hilarious sense of creativity Daphne.

By: Thallini Bla Kliem

Thallini Bla Kliem — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:00:32 +0000

Qabel accetawk fil-partit taghna ghamlulek xi tip ta test tal-mohh lilek?

[Daphne – Minhiex f’ebda partit, hanini. U lanqas klabb tal-festi jew xi klabb tal-banda.]

Ghax nahseb kieku ma konniex indahhluk fil-PN ghax vera kreatura tal-misthija inti. Lanqas haqq il-mibeghda li qed tizra fin-nies jahasra. Niddejjaq nghajjar lin-nies imma nahseb dik mhux tghajjira meta jghidulek is-sahhara tal-Bidnija. Ghax vera m’intiex normali.

[Daphne – ‘Indahhluk fil-Pn’. Sigh. Beetlespeak.]

By: gordon

gordon — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:32:48 +0000

who told you that you have brains!!? I find you completely insane lol!!!!!!!

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:06:19 +0000

In reply to Dee. Meta cempilt lil Carmen Sammut fuq il-programm li kellha nhar ta’ Sibt fuq l-RTK u ghidtilha li hi tahdem fi hdan il-Partit Laburista kienet hadet ghaliha.

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:01:41 +0000

My recommendation for Franco Debono is to read “The Song of the bird” by Anthony De Mello SJ (That’s a Jesuit,yes).
Its not a BIG book , but it’s a GREAT book.
It’s here in PDF:
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/songofbird.pdf

Here’s a fitting ‘story’:

DROPPING THE ‘I’

Disciple: I have come to offer you my service.

Master: If you dropped the ‘I’ service would certainly follow.

You could give all your goods to feed the poor and your body to be burnt and not have love at all.

Keep your goods and drop the ‘I’. Don’t burn your body; burn the ego. Love will instantly arise.

By: OldAloysian

OldAloysian — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:47:07 +0000

Fair choice of books (espescially Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) but I didn’t know you were a literary critic too Daphne.

Any aspiring politician should read ‘The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli.

[Daphne – People with brains and insight don’t need to read The Prince because they can work these things out for themselves. And those without brains or insight read The Prince to no avail. People who read are not necessarily literary critics. But they do tend to be people who know about books.]