While in "The Dollar Store," I happened across a c.2017 hardcover book called
Schadenfreude, A Love Story: Me, the Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words For by a Rebecca Schuman.
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A conversation with Rebecca Schuman about German humor, Kafka, and her new book Schadenfreude: A Love Story.
I thought it might bring me a little balance after that Celine pamphlet. How could I resist? It was like the book was placed there for me to find. I will honor the author by giving the book some attention, and I bet I stand to learn something valuable. That is the same reason I have been devoting some attention to Wildberger's Divine Proportions.
I do not take my "attraction" to the ideas of Edmund Husserl (over those of Heidegger) lightly. I am an honest man, and I do not deny the contradictions, nor the humor in certain paradoxes.
Thankfully, I am also partly Sweed, and even a little Czech ... so I am already a mut. Not only that, but I am an independent thinker. I really am trying to understand, trying to become Animal Being Transcending Human Society.