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| A 30 Sep 2015 photo (Ѻ) of Thims’ personal library, of Libb Thims, at the circa 1,300 book level, packed (following relocation move) into 39 banana boxes and 6 egg boxes, shown next to one (of ten) of Thims’ famously sought-after “snake book shelves” , a free-standing mobile book shelf, which works to hold active books (note: version shown is a shorter version of the original model, cut down by one row (about 14-inches) so to fit into the lower ceiling height of new library location. |
Reading | Techniques
“Also, to clarify, I read your book in detail, cover to cover, and this reading is inclusive of my standard dissection of books method of pencil noting commenting, boxing in of certain text, stars, checks, boxes, dates, question marks, "what" comments, one or two occasional highlights for exceptional sentences (which in your case amounted to one, namely your statement that Seth Lloyd writes in a "way of telling the story" that "misrepresents the history", which is strikingly true, hence I highlighted it), circles around certain foot notes, etc., etc., etc., which in your case amounted to a total of 1,340 pencil dissection incidences, all the way through your Glossary, Notes, References, Index, up through your second to last page (#601), where I box in all your usages of the term "vitalism", one notation example of which I scanned and will post on the above wiki review page [shown below], namely notation note #1250 your date typo of the Schneider and Kay reference, which you incorrectly put as 1997 (pg. 561), whereas it should correctly be 1994. I then let the book sit for some time, read two other books [Karl Pearson's 1892 The Grammar of Science and Francis Crick's 1996 Of Molecules and Men], as discussed, then came back to it, went through all 1,340 notation and commentary notes AGAIN and wrote this article with my "remarkably poisoned pen" as you call it.”— Libb Thims (2013), response (Ѻ) to Terrence Deacon that “I didn’t read his book”, May 22
“I stack books, like your momma stacks pancakes.”— Libb Thims (2013), response (Ѻ) to YouTuber comment about why Thims considered himself worthy of making a ranked Smartest Person Ever | IQ:200+ list, if he couldn't pronounce Goethe and Euler correctly (see: books read), Dec
