So today at del.icio.us , this is a site that has been linked 670+ times:
Glyn Hughes’ Squashed Philosophers
The books which defined the way The West thinks now
Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage
www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/
There’s nothing new in making condensed versions of the classics. What is different here is that these are neither the opinion of one person nor mere extracts. Instead, each has begun with a very wide analysis of quotations, citations and, especially, past examination papers (including UK A-Levels back to 1976), to establish which passages, which phrases, which lines, which words and which ideas, are generally considered the most important
www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/about.htm
Three words:
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