these changed almost everything i think about:

misc. Forrest Mims notebooks, the Python Tutorial, Practical C Programming

first chapter of Sound and the Fury, snippets of Naked Lunch, wide swaths of Ulysses

The Universe in a Nutshell, French's Special Relativity

The Gamma Function, a graph theory text whose name i don't remember, baby Rudin

Brain Structure and Its Origins, The Form Within