I suspect at the time this was written many of these horrid children were hyperbole. It now seems like people accidentally read this as a model for how children should be and they totally missed the fact that Charlie was the hero.
Donald Trump was 18 years old when this book was released. Sadly, I strongly suspect he never read or benefited from it.
Chapter 6 is pretty important. After going over the rest of the text, I’ll be sure to come back and re-read this particular section.
I love how delicate, yet emotive Joseph Schindelman’s illustrations are in this edition.
I’m trying to stop reading after short sections at points which might be mini-cliffhangers.
I’m so used to watching the Gene Wilder version of the movie the book version is quite refreshing in comparison.
I managed to pick up a revised hardcover copy (1973) of this classic from 1964 and thought I’d give it another read.
A quick and breezy read with some simple prescriptive actions.
Plowing along through the PHP section
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The section here on the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president with significant help by the communication incumbent (Western Union) of the time sounds eerily like the influence which Facebook likely had on the election of Donald J. Trump. The more I read this the more I’m scared and can’t wait for yet another disruption of communication technology.
page 45
literally, as in Keynes’ (1936) phrase, taking into account “what average opinion expects the average opinion to be.”
page 46
…perfect rationality in the market cannot be well defined. Infinitely intelligent agents cannot form expectations in a determinate way.
This type of behavior–coming up with appropriate hypothetical models to act upon, strengthening confidence in those that are validated, and discarding those that are not–is called inductive reasoning.
page 47
We see immediately that the market possesses a psychology. We define this as the collection of market hypotheses, or expectational models or mental beliefs, that are being acted upon at a given time.
page 48
the first(?) mention of a genetic model in the book
