Why Read Pascal? David Lazear At the heart of Jon’s

At the heart of Jon’s account of his misspent youth in Thailand and his subsequent life inside Klong Prem prison is a Thai-style acceptance of the consequences of his own karma and a desire to expose the fallacy that Westerners are mistreated in Thai prisons

From scenic rail journeys to remote road trips and epic hikes

and smooshing cards around on the table

a meditation on the colour blue

I found this book alarmingly enlightening

Why Read Pascal? David Lazear At the heart of Jon’sBlaise Pascal (1623 1662) is known in the English speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is rational to do what will affect belief in God and irrational not to), and, more generally, for the Pensees, a collection of philosophical and theological fragments of unusual emotional and intellectual intensity collected and published after his death. He thought and wrote, however, about much more than this: mathematics; physics; grace,