rock on, michael moore. read down to the end of that piece. this is truly amazing, but they are now producing such damning facts as that julian assange has an overdue library book. 

He also appears to have absconded with a copy of a book called Introduction to Non-Classical Logic from the Melbourne University library. Notes on the library's website read: "Not returned by Julian Assange, March 2004. Despite many attempts by staff he was unable to be contacted. Still missing 2006."

i happen to have a copy of "introduction to non-classical logic" on my shelf (it's not the university of melbourne's), which is precisely where i realized that i like old-fashioned two-valued (true/false) logic, unlike hawking, for example. (non-classical logics are multi-valued logics, and intro doesn't stop with hawking's mere three: let's axiomatize a seventeen-valued logic. eat that, steve!) that julian assange would even borrow such a book, much less never bring it back (i'm thinking because it became central to his personality, like elizabeth gilbert is central to yours) puts him in the category of mykindaweirdo.

by the way, you might want to take this as an object lesson not only on freedom and the subversion of power, but on the passive voice. "he was unable to be contacted"? strikes me as unlikely, though i'm sure assange was frustrated if that was the case. and that he was unable to be contacted (comatose, maybe? hermetically sealed in an empty room?) surely does not follow from the fact that y'all were unable to contact him. perhaps you were unable to contact him because, as your sentence indicates, there is no you.

well that's kinda pricey! cheaper on kindle.



btw, i will do some kind of (mixed) review of the kindle, which i've been using for a couple of months now.

ps don't buy this book on a sudden intellectual whim! it's gonna take a few years to get to the point where the "introduction" starts. if you don't already have predicate calculus, model theory etc on board, just say no.