This perhaps has nothing to do with LessWrong, but I feel like mentioning a book on the craft of violinmaking: Martin Schleske’s “The Sound of Life’s Unspeakable Beauty”.
The writer is a violinmaker, and he describes the various parts of his craft, from finding the perfect tree to provide violinwood, through all the stages of making the violin, and finally the playing that all of his work serves. But he also uses these things as extended metaphors in meditations on his religious beliefs.
I am not religious, but I am glad to have read this book.
This perhaps has nothing to do with LessWrong, but I feel like mentioning a book on the craft of violinmaking: Martin Schleske’s “The Sound of Life’s Unspeakable Beauty”.
The writer is a violinmaker, and he describes the various parts of his craft, from finding the perfect tree to provide violinwood, through all the stages of making the violin, and finally the playing that all of his work serves. But he also uses these things as extended metaphors in meditations on his religious beliefs.
I am not religious, but I am glad to have read this book.
Thanks, great recommendation! I’ll check it out for sure.