Here's continuing with pics from Taiwan. I tried to catch the moon next to Taipei 101, currently the world's tallest building. Also some tasty uh-ah-gen!
I'm reading an interesting book now, called "The Rule of Four." It's an entertaining read so far.. just started. It's supposed to be about a text called the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili." Here's a description from a site I found about the book.
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The enigmatic, polyglot Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- the inspiration for the bestselling novel The Rule of Four -- has fascinated architects and historians since its publication in 1499. Part fictional narrative and part scholarly treatise, richly illustrated with wood engravings, the book is an extreme case of erotic furor, aimed at everything -- especially architecture -- that the protagonist, Poliphilo, encounters in his quest for his beloved, Polia. Among the instances of the book's manifesto-like character is Polia's tirade defending the right of women to express their own sexuality, probably the first sustained argument of this type, which lifts the book's erotic theme from the realm of ribaldry to the more daring one of sexual politics.
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I haven't read the Hypnerotomachia, but it sounds sort of interesting too. "The Rule of Four" itself is also fiction, a story about this book. It's kind of a thriller/Da Vinci Code type book. I don't know how it'll end, but I'll write about it when I finish.
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