{"id":3016,"date":"2009-10-19T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2009-10-19T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:26:04","slug":"book-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/book-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some book stuff:<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1)<\/strong> Are there any\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Are-Doomed-Reclaiming-Conservative-Pessimism\/dp\/0307409589\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255457075&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>WAD<\/em><\/a> blogs? people are asking me. \u00a0Well, \u00a0I&#8217;m running one on my own\u00a0website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Books\/Doomed\/Blog\/page.html\">here<\/a>, and there&#8217;s some to and fro about the book on one of the Amazon\u00a0history forums\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/tag\/history\/forum\/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;cdForum=Fx33HXI3XVZDC8G&amp;cdMsgNo=1&amp;cdPage=1&amp;cdSort=oldest&amp;cdThread=TxQ9S8KTFXXWLH&amp;displayType=tagsDetail&amp;cdMsgID=Mx29KB4VNBUN4ZE#Mx29KB4VNBUN4ZE\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2)<\/strong> The Russian translation of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics\/dp\/0452285259\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255963178&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Prime\u00a0Obsession<\/em><\/a> is proceeding towards publication at a speed barely perceptible but,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Culture\/russian.html\">the translator<\/a> assures me, &#8220;nonzero.&#8221;  We now have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Books\/Prime\/russian.jpg\">a cover<\/a> designed.  I kind of like seeing my name in Russian, but\u00a0\u2026\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t there be a patronymic in there?  My Dad was John too, so it seems to me I should be \u0414\u0436\u043e\u043d\u00a0\u0414\u0436\u043e\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447\u00a0 \u0414\u0435\u0440\u0431\u0438\u0448\u0438\u0440. I think this would go\u00a0great in one of those heavy Russian novels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Bald Hills, Prince Dzhon Dzhonovich Derbishir&#8217;s estate, the<br \/>\narrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but<br \/>\nthis expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the<br \/>\nold prince&#8217;s household. General in Chief Prince Dzhon Dzhonoovich<br \/>\n(nicknamed in society, &#8220;the King of Prussia&#8221;) ever since the Emperor<br \/>\nPaul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously<br \/>\nwith his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle<br \/>\nBourienne. Though in the new reign he was free to return to the<br \/>\ncapitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that<br \/>\nanyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to<br \/>\nBald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing\u00a0\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Born out of my time and place, that&#8217;s what it is.  I would have been good to my serfs, I swear I would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some book stuff: (1) Are there any\u00a0WAD blogs? people are asking me. \u00a0Well, \u00a0I&#8217;m running one on my own\u00a0website here, and there&#8217;s some to and fro about the book on one of the Amazon\u00a0history forums\u00a0here. (2) The Russian translation of\u00a0Prime\u00a0Obsession &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/book-stuff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}