On finishing "Lord of the Rings"...
On Saturday I finished 'Lord of the Rings' for the first time. I started reading it almost exactly ten years ago and got about one sixth of the way through it before deciding to 'have a bit of a break'. I'm doing better with it than I am with Ulysses though. The race continueth - after ten years Rachel's still on page 34 while I have roared ahead to a remarkable page 46. I'm reading Emergence now. It's quite an entertaining read. I'm not convinced that much of it is really about emergence and self-organisation, and a lot of it seems to be balanced on some fairly precarious conjecture, but it's certainly good to think with.
