ybooks

Books

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

Pico Iyer · 2023

Recommended by 1 person on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Maria Popova loved it affiliate
With soulful curiosity channeled in his ever-lyrical prose, Pico Iyer chronicles a lifetime of pilgrimages to some of Earth's greatest shrines to that longing in The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

on themarginalian.org · 19 Dec 2023

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.