I spent just $17 at the Reg’s sale of withdrawn books and bagged the following:
Relativity was actually a volume of conference papers from the 60s, which I will probably never read, but I bought it anyway, because it had the following inside:
Of course, immediately after I started worrying about being irrational in buying it: I doubt I could sell it for much, and why should I be “thrilled” at the idea of owning a book with Chandrasekhar’s signature? But I couldn’t get too upset at my own irrationality, for it cost me only $3.
The Damasio was also autographed, although I do actually want to read that book.
> a volume of conference papers from the 60s
it might be interesting to see if the problems and issues they were contemplating in the 1960s are mostly solved or forgotten now…
The Damasio is worth it, certainly. And I would have paid for the Chandrasekhar signature. But what is “Music, the brain and ecstasy?” which sounds most interesting.
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