A Tale for the Time Being

This is a fascinating book about choice, how we interact with reality, creativity, the power of reading, the balance of creativity, suicide, and lots of other things.

This book mentions a number of other books, and it contains a bibliography. So it is leading me to read a number of other books, some of which, picked at pseudo-random:

• Reflections on the Way to the Gallows, by Kanno Sugako.
• The Bluestockings of Japan, by Jan Bardsley.
• The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III, by Peter Byrne.
• Mount Analogue, by René Daumal.
• Shōbōgenzō, by Eihei Dōgen.
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera.
• Scrolling Forward, by David Levy.
• Zone of Emptiness, by Hiroshi Noma.
• In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust.
• Narrating the Self, by Tomi Suzuki.

And probably most importantly, I set it down and immediately started planning when I would re-read it. I’d like to read more of the works that I’ve listed above, but once I do, I plan to revisit this world again.