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Submitted by Alice on Mon, 06/18/2007 - 9:45am.
This work of art shows two pages from a book called "Las Hours de Isabel..." or in english, "The Hours of Isabel." A book of hours was the name for a prayer book in the middle ages. This book would have been used by the Queen when she went to church or sat quietly in her room. She could read the manuscript, a prayer written in Latin. Or perhaps she would look at the picture showing the Christmas story and make up her own prayer.
Read any good books?
Feel like posting the title author and an excerpt?
Have any links to books online?
Favorite authors?
etc...This thread is all about books.... :)
This work of art shows two pages from a book called "Las Hours de Isabel..." or in english, "The Hours of Isabel." A book of hours was the name for a prayer book in the middle ages. This book would have been used by the Queen when she went to church or sat quietly in her room. She could read the manuscript, a prayer written in Latin. Or perhaps she would look at the picture showing the Christmas story and make up her own prayer.
This book was made completely by hand, back in the years before the printing press was invented. Every page is a work of art. The illustrations were painted with tiny paintbrushes. Sometimes artists would use magnifying glasses to add the details. And all the lettering was done by hand, with brushes and pens dipped in ink.
A whole team of artists would work on one book. The painters who created this book were fameous for the rich decorations in the borders of the pages. Check out the different kinds of flowers that surround the lettering. Can you find the butteflies?
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Large Illuminated Manuscript
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I'm facinated by the Codices
I should read more. I read tech manuals :(
When you read for pleasure
do you prefer fiction or non fiction?
I've heard of this word -Codices-, but will have to look it up...
Fiction
for pleasure. Non out of curiosity. A link to the electronic copies are linked to the picture Alice. They are worth looking at.
--A link to the electronic copies --
Oh cool! Thanks!
I'm going to get my book/library bookmarks in order & post them later on...I've been collecting them for years now...
Podcast: T Allen Greenfield
and the Secret Cipher
The book describes the cipher, its use throughout history, its discovery in “Liber AL vel Legis - The Book of the Law,” and how Allen found the cipher could be utilized in instances of UFO contact to derive meaning from the odd names the entities provided. The discovery of the cipher and its usage opens up a very likely “missing link” bridging the understanding between the worlds of spiritual and magick occult concepts and the entities from UFOs, contactees, and Men In Black. This linkage is key to truly comprehending the hidden realms that seem to impose themselves upon on our world with regularity.
500+
E-Books
One of my favorite recent books...
DANCING IN THE STREETS: A History of Collective Joy
Made me wonder if a global dance ceremony in the public would nudge a people's revolt...
PageByPageBooks.com
More E-Books large variety of books...
Video Flip
Book
Not a lot of book readers here I guess..
;)
It's cool...I've never been one to turn down filling up a thread...
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://omacl.org/
http://omacl.org/title.html
Titles
The Biology of Belief
by Dr. Bruce Lipton
Chapter 1, excerpt
...
The notion of cells as miniature humans that I was mulling over would be considered heresy by most biologists. Trying to explain the nature of anything not human by relating it to human behavior is called anthropomorphism. “True” scientists consider anthropomorphism to be something of a mortal sin and ostracize scientists who knowingly employ it in their work.
However, I believed though that I was breaking out of orthodoxy for a good reason. Biologists try to gain scientific understanding by observing nature and conjuring up a hypothesis of how things work. Then they design experiments to test their ideas. By necessity, deriving the hypothesis and designing the experiments require the scientist to “think” how a cell or another living organism carries out its life. Applying these “human” solutions, i.e. a human view of resolving biology’s mysteries, automatically makes these scientists guilty of anthropomorphizing. No matter how you cut it, biological science is based to some degree on humanizing the subject matter.
Actually, I believe that the unwritten ban on anthropomorphism is an outmoded remnant of the Dark Ages when religious authorities denied any direct relationship existed between humans and any of God’s other creations. While I can see the value of the concept when people try to anthropomorphize a light bulb, a radio or a pocketknife, I do not see it as a valid criticism when it is applied to living organisms. Human beings are multicellular organisms—we must inherently share basic behavioral patterns with our own cells.
However, I know that it takes a shift in perception to acknowledge that parallel. Historically, our Judeo-Christian beliefs have led us to think that we are the intelligent creatures who were created in a separate and distinct process from all other plants and animals. This view has us looking down our noses at lesser creatures as non-intelligent life forms, especially those organisms on the lower evolutionary rungs of life.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. When we observe other humans as individual entities or see ourselves in the mirror as an individual organism, in one sense, we are correct, at least from the perspective of our level of observation. However, if I brought you down to the size of an individual cell so you could see your body from that perspective, it would offer a whole new view of the world. When you looked back at yourself from that perspective you would not see yourself as a single entity. You would see yourself as a bustling community of more than 50 trillion individual cells.
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Hermetic
E-Books
LoveOfReading.com
Read excerpts of books from many different categories
Poor Sa(n) gets no respect
Just browsing LoveOfReading.com and found this excerpt. Be sure to check out the list of authors.
I'm currently reading Mcculough's Truman and listening to FUBAR. My queue of books waiting to be read (gifts) includes Joseph Wheelan's Jefferson's War, Erik Larson's Thunderstuck and James Swanson's Manhunt. I haven't decided what I'll listen to next, but I'm leaning toward Al Gore's new book. Admittedly, when the new Harry Potter comes out everything else will go on the back burner.
Since I moved out of the city and had to give up my subway rides to and from work, I have not been reading as much, but I do tend to favor non-fiction. I typically only read fiction that comes recommended by friends, and to be honest I can't remember the last fiction book I read.
Any recommendations?
Evening pee.ey.yoo.el :)
For fiction there are just a couple I love to read...a Tree Grows In Brooklyn is one...alice in wonderland is the other...& poetry I adore.
I miss my Monday drives to Lake Don Pedro in the bookmobile for the same reason.
McCullough, as in David? The 1776 author? People love to check his books out, they must be good.
Thanks for the excerpt page..I had no idea.. :) Looks like a fun book.
We're having a Potter sleep over weekend the night the book comes out..The library will be decorated like the dorms in Potter...and they will pass the book around allowing the patrons (12 + up) to read aloud until they finish it...
One non fiction I loved was 12 Charring Cross Road...I didn't like the ending but it was interesting to me...
I still find it hard to read (or print out) an e-book.. I prefer to touch them..but I will sometimes read online...I mostly just like finding sites with alot of ebooks..I find it fascinating that people are willing to type out such long texts...
If you're interested, (I don't think we enjoy the same sort of books..but..this is my hom library booklist...it's up to like 1200+ now...needs to be updated...
http://pscelebrities.com/books/books.xls
I like finding surprises in my used books..even if it's just an old bookmark.. :)
Thank you for responding..normvlly I "put out" on the Blog with no thoughts of who might respond..however this time I was really hoping to open up some discussion...
Gracias... ox
Just got this book review from my anarchist academics newsgroup
*A Brief History of Neoliberalism*
David Harvey
Oxford University Press (?14.99)
David Harvey's book is an excellent introduction to the political and economic story of neoliberalism, from its rise as an ideology with minority support to its current near hegemonic supremacy.
Harvey defines neoliberalism as "a theory of political and economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade." Signalling a radical departure from what Harvey calls the post-War period of "embedded liberalism", in which the state intervened (relatively) freely in the economy, neoliberalism entered the stage in the mid-1970s.
The book traces the doctrine's uneven geographical development, going beyond the now well-told story of the domestic policy experiments of Thatcher and Reagan, exploring the means by which neoliberalism took hold in contexts as diverse as Chile (following the Pinochet coup), New York City (after the 1975 fiscal crisis), and China (following Mao's death).
The concentration of enormous amounts of wealth in a small number of hands has been widely documented as a consequence of neoliberalism. Rather than being an unfortunate by-product, however, Harvey argues that the consolidation of upper-class power "just might be the fundamental core of what neoliberalization has been about all along".
The primary theoretical or analytic weakness of the book is Harvey's concept of "accumulation by dispossession", which he uses, amongst other things, to describe the privatisation of utilities such as water and telecommunications. This, Harvey argues, represents a "continuation and proliferation" of what Marx called "primitive accumulation". The problem here, however, is that what Marx was describing was the historical processes by which large portions of the population were removed from their means of subsistence (i.e. the land) and incorporated into the capitalist wage-labouring economy. Harvey, on the other hand, is talking primarily about the privatisation of state-owned utilities which were by no means *outside* of capitalism before their privatisation. Despite his claims to the contrary, when Harvey calls for a reversal of this process (i.e. for the state to resume an increased role in social provision), it is hard not to feel that he is calling for a return to a "golden age" of embedded liberalism. For the work of an author influenced by the Marxist tradition, and a book whose major contribution is to illustrate neoliberalism as a project in the consolidation of upper-class power and, therefore, the intensification of exploitation, it is disappointing that Harvey fails to argue for a more complete break with capitalist social relations. Nevertheless, there is much in this highly readable book which can equip us with a more comprehensive understanding of the emergence, and function, of neoliberalism.
*Ben Trott*
I thought
The book topic would be a hit too.
I had to look up Lake Don Pedro (I've been on the East Coast for most of my life.) Sierra Nevadas look absolutely beautiful, and I love the beer too. :)
Yes David Mccullough. I read 1776 and received his John Adams bio, though I don't foresee reading it any time soon.
The Harry Potter party sounds like fun. I always feel like such a geek when I admit that I get excited about new Potter books. Truth is I probably am a geek. Yup. No doubt.
eBooks are blasphemy! To begin with, how can anyone stand to stare at a computer screen for that long. I'd go blind. Mind you I work on a computer all day and I spend a lot of time reading -- er lurking -- on this and other blogs, but for content as long as a book implies ... I just can't do it. Like you I prefer the feel of books, the smell of a books, etc. Plus I'm a graphic designer, so I appreciate the details of good book design. The things that most people take for granted. Most people don't pay attention to good design, but everyone notices bad design.
We probably don't have a lot of reading interests in common, but I read your post on Sir Real's open mic about not having a lot in common with other people on this blog, and thought that for me that's really what keeps me motivated to check this place out everyday. I love reading the opinions of people with very different tastes and views than my own. It's much more interesting and informative.
I'll check out your recommendations. I may not read them, but I will definitely check them out. Thanks. Funny! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn always makes me think of bugs bunny.
bless the petty tyrants
Hey Alice,
Sorry I hadn't checked out this current Open Mic of yours until today,...
I was busy fixing up and organizing the template for the MRR Safehouse site.
Here's an excerpt which sticks out in my mind, from the book, "The Fire From Within," by Carlos Castaneda.
I think of it a lot because I am dealing with two petty tyrants in my periphery (aka 3 doors down, literally) and these tyrants are my father-in-law and sister-in-law. They are the equivalent of flies landing on your nose when you're trying to meditate, although a bit more reckless.
From the book,...
"...'A petty tyrant is a tormentor,' he replied. 'Someone who either holds the power of life and death over warriors, or simply annoys them to distraction.'" ...
"'...As I said, the petty tyrant is the outside element that is perhaps the most important
of them all. My benefactor used to say
that the warrior who stumbles on a petty tyrant is a lucky one.
He meant that you're fortunate if you come upon one in your path,
because if you don't, you have to go out and look for one.'" ...
"'...if seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable.'"
I'll drop a further note in a bit. :)
This is a great resource!
Alice.
Sorry to hear you got hurt, Alice,...
Make sure to at least let your supervisor know you got hurt as soon as possible just to cover your ass.
(no pun intended)
... love & anarchy ...
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost)
Alice,... This poem was included in the first chapter of the book, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," ... which I'm presently reading. Pretty cool poem. And, normally, I'm not much into poems unless they rhyme and sound like someone buzzed wrote them.
On the last thread it said (hey that rhymes)
anyway ... apparently you went to bed early.
i hope divine healing and divine dreams take place tonight
and that by the time you get the chance to read this
you're feeling well and in a good space, and hopefully have the day off.
:)
Books I LOVE Books!!!!
Took me a long time to find your little world online here Alice. Nice idea.
I love Books. IMHO No home is complete without Books and in my case four footed furries.
I lost my library to fire and have been working toward replacing (as best I can) and building it up now and in general for as long as I can remember.
Love of books came from being given my own library card when I was 2 years old. My first type of books that I loved were about dinosaurs. To this day, I could walk into the library I grew up in despite all the changes and point to where the dinosaur books were kept. I was reading doonsbury by 6 so obviously I was never a normal kid.
My first collection/obsession was the Frank L. Baum books - everything Oz - his 12 books, plus his other works, then Ruth Plumey Thompson who took over and brought the Oz books up to 26 - I found an original of hers in book fair near the Canadian border. And ha built quite a collection of the multiple authors taking up the Oz mantle. Thankfully, the orginal Baum Wizard of Oz first edition never made it to me as the gift it was whispered to be as it would have been lost wghgen the library was lost.
But I digress, Nowadays, I have been trying to read so many things lately but time constraints and other pressing needs take priority and my attention. I have a huge collection of "to be read" and while there is nothing like the feel of holding a book and reading it, I have had to make room for books on CD lately.
Currently listening/reading The Assault on Reason by Gore - quite good, altho not so keen on the narrator.(not read by Gore)
Recent past readings Concious of a Conservative - definitely an important book, State of War, other politically themed titles - looking for background info on where we are and how we got here. And don't forget FUBAR -America's Right Wing Nightmare. Too many to list or remember as I can only focus on whats around right now.
History, Religion, Architecture - all relate well together - a series by the Gies, covers this in detail of the middle ages for those who wish non-scholarly reading with excellent content.
Other pressing topics requiring my attention and most of my reading time green architecture and building, forward thinking space planning, tons of decorating, current obsession is kitchens, baths, repurposed materials for flooring. earlier was focused on Solar power.
Fiction - where to start? Favorite author - Tolkien - collect his works and inspired art and versions and editions. In years with a normaal life around here I read his works every summer - haven't been able to do so in the last 2 summers. Have recently added unabridged audio versions of his main works to my collections and am hoping to somehow find time to attempt an initial listening sometime this year.
Other fiction includes titles that vary widely - do not have access to them so cannot think of how to catagorize them. Science Fiction and Fantasy yes - but not wholly as a overwhelming theme.
oh -a fav book for re-readingg - Merlin's Ring -
Beyond this - ask me again in about 8 months when I will hopefully have my books out of storage and am rediscovering them all over again I might be able to be more coherent in my answers.
Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
Oh one more- An Illuminated Manuscript for the 21st century
Illuminated manuscript for the 21st century
st.john's monestary in Minnesota commissioned the first illuminated bible in 500 years.
I highly recommend you find their website and see the llustrations and there are printed versions available for sale in bookstores that you can go and see - such a must see. SOOOOOOo absolutely beatiful. Comes in sections so you can get the old and new testaments.
I have a copy of the old testament - the pentatach - the equivalent of the hebrew bible.
Just the fact that this work of art has been produced using the same techniques of the masters but for the current time is just fascinating.
Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
Link for you Alice
http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/
This is the offical link to the abbey where it was commissioned and where it will be housed. I know it will be on tour so check out the schedule.
I am going to Minnesota for a weekend in August but do not know if I will be near Collegeville - but if I am, I am hoping the manuscript will be there and that I can go and see it in person.
My copy of the manuscript will be the centerpeice of my library when it is finished. Will need to find an appropriate stand and cover of course.
To buy a copy go to Amazon or Overstock.com tho - best prices.
Oh - make sure to go back to last night's thread to read my advice @ your tailbone.
Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
Hey now...
pee.ey.yoo.el: Geeks rule! :) 'Specially on the internets...
-I love reading the opinions of people with very different tastes and views than my own.-
I hear you on that...at times the desire to have a conversation similar to when Sir Real first came back to the blog, and such as one with Mab from the other night when we met...finding such common-ness was SO very exciting for me..so yes..My machine-like mind sometimes desires to "seek agreement"...I guess...With so many differences here..if it were sameness ONLY that I wanted I would go somewhere where I think I'd find it...so please don't think bad of me for my snarky comment.. I have fits here now and then.. as you may or may not know..because I have no idea when you got here..who you are or who else you might be...
-- Tree Grows in Brooklyn always makes me think of bugs bunny.--
Now this is a funny brain association.. any idea why? :)
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...oops.. me, Alice...I'll sign in now..
This is one benefit of Open Mics
When I feel like it..I can retreat to create alone...
Srrrrrrrrrrrreal :)
-Carlos Castaneda-
See now that is one author I would like to read, have tried and then don't I'm starting to think I should look up cliff notes for books I want to read and am not entirely in to...I wonder why I never thought of that before...?
-"'...if seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable.'"-
Nice.
The Robert Frost poem..I wish I knew exactly how many times it's been posted in whole or in part on the..(any of the) Blogs we've been on here with Sam Seder..? That would be a weird stat to have...
:) Thanks for the well wishes..it's really much better to NOT get hurt at work..the trying to take care of things the right way was fucking draining as hell...
Oh yeah..
After you read Rich Dad Poor Dad, lemme know what your thoughts are if you remember to please...
How ya feeling Alice?
As best as can be expected,I guess.
It got a bit lonely out there so I thought
everybody comes cruzing by here first..
Oops.Have to let the cat in.bbl :)
Your not here.That's cool.
Just wanted to tell ya to get better soon! :)
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Nefferkitti!
-I lost my library to fire-
{{{HEAVY HEART}}} Yes, I realize they're books...and yes I believe that we either know or absorb all there is in some form...or, "the same stuff", if you will..so we never really lose anything or anyone...BUT (and this is a BIG BUT)... since I now live in a high fire danger area you have endured one of my fears...my library burning down...
So...if and when you ever feel like it..tell me everything about that..I'm all ears..which reminds me that the new Rob Breszny newsletter arrived tonight...with the following:
RECEPTIVITY REMEDIES
Alert, relaxed listening is the radical act at the heart of our pronoiac
practice. Curiosity is our primal state of awareness. Wise innocence is a
trick we aspire to master. Open-hearted skepticism is the light in our
eyes.
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I passed my one and only favorite baby "Lily" her first library card about three weeks ago. When she put it in her mouth I almost cried.. ;) (seriously it did feel momentous)...Her mom and she have been back a lot since then...weird how all so many kids come through the library and in two years there are now two I've taken to well..no three...anyway.. Doonesbury at age six huh.. that's hilarious.. :) What happened to the first edition Oz pray tell...someone guarding it for you?
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-green architecture and building, forward thinking space planning, tons of decorating, current obsession is kitchens, baths, repurposed materials for flooring. earlier was focused on Solar power.-
and you're coming to my house when did you say? (heh heh)... :)
-books out of storage and am rediscovering them all over again-
!!! I'm so excited for this day! When you do, if you let me know...I will just go IN to my libray and browse.. I haven't done it in So long because I am overwhelmed with what I read "out here" in the other room...I'll just end up with a new "to read" stack like yours if I go in there to poke around...But if we do it together it could be fun to get all excerpty here..eh? :)
No, I am here...
I was writing..
Thanks MMR...I do feel better now..thank you...better than I did roaming up and down bumpy roads all damn day in order to get some healing time...and probably better than I would feel if I knew I had to give myself a shot like Toni does...that's something I would have an extreme issue with...she's brave.
How long till you
don't hurt? Do you know?
I'm not sure...
I'm working on it..I think it requires some concentration first of all..& having spent all day out and about unwillingly I haven't had that time yet..bits..& then I figured that even though I need to not take pain relievers...I decided if I were going to use one..I should do it tonight when the injury is at it's peak...so I did and I'm quite sure my body thinks it feels better that it actually is...
umm...the short answer is that I'll know more tomorrow.. :)
Well I hope
it does. I promise to hold all of my sore butt jokes until then.
EncyclopediaOfTheSelf.com
http://encyclopediaoftheself.com/index.shtml
//don't think bad of me//
Never. You, Catherine, Fernando and Conbo (while I was testing the waters as anonymous on the old blog) are the only people I've really interacted with at all around here.
I am only me. Whoever I am (right?). I've been on this blog since day one. I didn't actually visit the previous blog until the day Sam announced he was losing his morning gig. I wanted to keep tabs on where he was going to end up.
I know exactly were the Bugs bunny association comes from. An easy episode to find too.
Must get sleep. Hope your tuckus is feeling better.
by Richard Bach
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Best Book on empowerment I've ever read.
I've probably purchased and given over 50 copies of this book to people who don't seem to understand the power they have to change their own lives. This book was originally published in 1977 and its still around 30 years later, that tells you something. The first person I helped with it was me. The theme of the book is personal power. The point of view is "What if Jesus has just said 'No'!" to his calling as the Messiah. Ever think about that? He did have a choice you know, otherwise there would have been... more info
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still have it on my bookshelf..next to Seagull..
one of 2 Richard Bach books that I've kept over the years and reread many times..the other being Johnathan Livingston Seagull...reading it for the first time had such an impact on me back in the 70's..and rereading it has always left something different with me..I've always loved philosophy, spiritual books and what I got from this one though I'm sure everyone will get something different..instead of always looking for a savior in your life and waiting for them to change yor life and make it so... more info
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Good stuff
An important book from the seventies.
(from amazon)
pee.ey.yoo.el
I wonder why so shy. I must be missing something.
Electronic Texts for the study of American Culture
Link
LOL!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hare_Grows_In_Manhattan
Awesome.. Good Night, pee.ey.yoo.el...
I can't find one excerpt of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn now...that surprises me..
:)
...
Bugs Bunny: Eh, whatcha looking for?
Spike: I'm looking for a rabbit.
Bugs Bunny: Did he had long ears, a fuzzy tail, and hop around like this?
[Hops around]
Spike: Yeah, yeah. That's him.
Bugs Bunny: And is there a tough-looking mug chasing him, with a derby,
[Puts on Spike's derby]
Bugs Bunny: ... and a turtleneck sweater,
[Puts on Spike's sweater]
Bugs Bunny: ... and a big cigar,
[Takes Spike's cigar]
Bugs Bunny: ... and acts like this?
[Acts like a bulldog]
Spike: Yeah, yeah. That he does.
Bugs Bunny: And when you ain't looking, does he let you have it like this?
[Punches Spike]
Spike: Yeah, that's the guy! That's the... Hey, wait a minute! Which way did he go?
Bugs Bunny: Sorry, Mac. Haven't seen him.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039448/quotes
Sure, Alice.
I'll let you know when I'm done with the book.
If you google the title, the book gets bashed by some.
I'm not sure why. I don't normally read books from the beginning.
Nor magazines. I usually read the conclusions first in books.
I've just been reading random pages of late. It was an unasked for book given to me by my better half for Father's Day. But, when I glanced at some of the pages, I found some good stuff.
Since I don't as a rule read fiction unless it's Bukowski or Henry Miller, or Erica Jong or something,...reading the ending first doesn't ruin the book for me.
Since I have an economic background, and since I know first-hand that they don't teach you about money management in school, I enjoy reading coherent, progressive views regarding economics, investing, financial literacy, etc...
It's quite interesting how corporations have the same rights as people, and none of the responsibilities.
(i.e. You can't throw a corporation in jail.) And how corporations hire lawyers to argue that they are a person, or aren't a person, depending on the situation.
It's unbelievable how the system is designed for corporations to always win.
And, it's quite interesting reading about this country's wealthy families and how they got that way. Besides the receiving of government handouts (corporate welfare) & the use of monopolies.
And, I really like to learn about how this American culture is intentionally dumbed down so that the masses have no idea they're being robbed blind, and are unaware that they are merely wage slaves. Just cogs in the wheel.
And then you throw in Abraham-Hicks. And the expanding universe.
And the expanding pie.
And how there is no need for people to compete with each other over finite resources, when supposedly there will always be enough for everyone once they get their belief systems straight ("control their thought forms"), or whatever the Abe argument is.
Well from there then, that possibly stands the notion of peak oil & global warming on its collective head.
(It doesn't mean we can't recycle, use alternative fuels, practice conservation, etc,...just as good habits,...but there is an argument there somewhere that everything is perfect, everything happens for a reason, everything comes at the right time, etc...) And, then well, maybe it's time to relax, have patience, take some deep breaths, and load another bowl.
Okay, now I'm rambling.
... love & anarchy ...
The culprit!
...
Bugs Bunny: So there I was, trapped, overwhelmed by superior numbers.
Lola Beverly: My goodness, Bugs. How did you ever get out of that one?
Bugs Bunny: Well, I grabbed the nearest thing I could get my hands on, determined to make their victory a costly one.
[Flashback: Bugs grabs a book to throw at the dogs; the dogs see the cover and run across the Brooklyn Bridge; Bugs looks at the cover, which reads "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"]
Bugs Bunny: Hey, you know? Maybe I ought to read this thing.
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--no need for people to compete with each other over finite resources--
It's not especially easy to maintain that perspecitive/belief, imhe...
...time for me to sleep...good night & ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
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Sweet
dreams, Alice.
//Hey, you know? Maybe I ought to read this thing.//
That's good enough for me.
//why so shy//
Good question. I ask myself all the time. Actually I don't think I'm shy. I just take a little while to warm up. I've found that beer helps that along. So, if I ever seem especially chatty, you'll know why. :)
Lolita . . .
A tale by Heinz von Lichberg, translated by Carolyn Kunin
2004 -
Earlier this year, admirers of Vladimir Nabokov and scholars of modern literature were startled by the revelation that the Lolita of Nabokov’s great novel was not the first fictional nymphet of that name to have enchanted an older lover: her namesake had appeared in an eighteen-page tale, also called “Lolita”, by the obscure German author Heinz von Lichberg, published in 1916. (See the TLS, April 2, and correspondence that followed.) We now publish, for the first time in English, von Lichber’s story, translated by Carolyn Kunin.
During the course of conversation someone mentioned the name of E.T.A. Hoffmann and those musical tales. The Countess Beata, our young hostess, put down the orange she was about to peel and said to the young poet "Would you believe it – his stories -- and I only seldom read them -- can keep me awake all night long? My rational mind tells me it is fantasy, and yet . . ."
"Perhaps it is not mere fantasy, my dear countess."
The diplomat gave a good natured chuckle "You don't think such outlandish things actually happened to Hoffmann, do you?"
"But that is exactly what I do think," countered the poet. "They did happen to him. Of course I don't mean that he saw them with his own eyes. But because he was a poet, he experienced everything that he wrote psychically. Perhaps I should say that he only wrote of things that he had encountered in his soul. In fact I would say that this is what differentiates the poet from the writer. The poet's soul experiences the fantastic as its reality."
Silence fell over the beautiful countess's little empire style room.
"You are completely right," said the professor, a sensitive man of youthful appearance. "Will you allow me to tell you a story that I have carried with me for many years? To this day I am not certain if it actually happened to me or if I dreamed it. It won't take long."
"Please do tell us," said our hostess.
The professor began his tale:
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Karezza, Tantra, and Sex Magic
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Now I'm reading this....
Passionate Minds, by David Bodanis
Shortly after Emilie and Voltaire met - in 1733 - he wrote the following to her
(and, alas, everything he predicted came true):
When am I coming to Alice's house?
Oh Alice, please do not wait for me to come to start makingg your surroundings more homey, that could take ages, I have more than a library to work on and I do not know how long it will all take. I use the idea of the library to keep me focused during this time, and while my original library was lost a long time ago, my current collection is packed away and safe so just a matter of time and patience on this end til I can put the books into their new home.
My childhood friend whom I read Doonsbury with among many other things, when hearing about the loss of my library, was in process of moving across country and decided it was impracticle to take his library with him and combine it with his finance. SO, he took his most treasured volumes, and left the rest to me so that I could have a good head start on rebuilding my own library collection again. one of the greatest gifts I have ever been given. I have slowly but steaadily replaced much of what I could remember was missing, and added much of what I have changed in taste as the years have gone on. Now includes audio books which allow me to appreciate works from the first person perspective when read by the author and are helpful when traveling or when time constraints or life in general makes it hard to focus and "get into" a book - something new to me, but with things being so chaotic, I am learning to appreciate the centuries old oxford policy of reading to their students daily. But I do hope that when the library and everything else around it is completed and I settle in, that I will be able to return to the uncomparable experience of sittingg with a good book in front of a crackling fire and enjoying the experience all the more.
OH - the original Wiz of Oz was ultimately never purchaced for me as the gift - so it was spared being destroyed. I recieved a bracelet in its place which was lost in the fire, but of course that is not something so rare that would be truely irreplacable... THe other origginal edition was of the second author - and not as well known - found by chance at a book fair when not looking for it - so easily replaced eventually...and would trade all the books lost for the house itself and the pictures - better yet all of that for the cat lost to smoke inhalation.
So my friend, I can provide suggestions via links etc... for "greeningg" your living environment, and as my project goes on and on and on, more info will become available. But the best advice is to research and read - the info is out there. From floor cleaner to rugs to clothing to the building materials themselves. We are just behind the times right now in the US due to our corp policies. But it can be done and every small decision and choice counts.
Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
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Dissent In America The Voices That Shaped a Nation
400 years of Speeches, Sermons, Arguments, Articles, Letters, And Songs That Made a Difference - by Ralph F. Young, 2006
EXCERPTS FROM "DISSENT IN AMERICA"
"I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But, sir, the right to control their own Government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.
"Rather, in time of war, the citizen must be more alert to the preservation of his right to control his Government ...
"More than all, the citizen and his representative in Congress in time of war must maintain his right of free speech. More than in times of peace it is necessary that the channels for free public discussion of governmental policies shall be open and unclogged."
-- Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Republican from Wisconsin, Oct. 6, 1917
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"These are the gentry who are today wrapped up in the American flag, who shout their claim from the housetops that they are the only patriots, and who have their magnifying glasses in hand, scanning the country for evidence of disloyalty, eager to apply the brand of treason to the men who dare to even whisper their opposition to [their] rule in the United Sates. No wonder Sam Johnson declared that 'patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.' He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people."
-- Eugene V. Debs, Socialist, June 1918
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"War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. ... Loyalty -- or mystic devotion to the State -- becomes the major imagined human value.
"In this great herd machinery, dissent is like sand in the bearings. The State ideal is primarily a sort of blind animal push toward military unity. Any difference with that unity turns the whole vast impulse toward crushing it."
-- Randolph Bourne, journalist and critic, 1918
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about anyone else."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, former President, talking about Woodrow Wilson's policies during World War I
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"If we [become an imperialist power], we shall transform the government of the people, for the people, and by the people, for which Abraham Lincoln lived, into a government of one part of the people, the strong, over another part, the weak. Such an abandonment of a fundamental principle as a permanent policy ... can hardly fail in its ultimate effects to disturb the rule of the same principle in the conduct of democratic government at home ...
"The American flag, we are told, whenever once raised, must never be hauled down. Certainly, every patriotic citizen will always be ready, if need be, to fight and to die under his flag wherever it may wave in justice and for the best interests of the country. But I say to you, woe to the republic if it should ever be without citizens patriotic and brave enough to defy the demagogues' cry and to haul down the flag wherever it may be raised not in justice and not for the best interests of the country. Such a republic would not last long. ..."
-- Carl Schurz, Republican Secretary of the Interior under the Hayes Administration January 4, 1899, on the American occupation of the Philippines
In today's mail... one more for the "to read" pile....
The People Decide: Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly, by Nancy Davies
Authentic Journalist Nancy Davies' reports from the Mexican city of Oaxaca throughout 2006 during the rise of the Popular Assembly movement are now compiled into one book.
Appendix by George Salzman
Preface by Al Giordano
By looking below, and carefully listening to what the participants in this history were saying, Nancy Davies got the big story that the pack-journalists missed, and made a lasting impact that will help the Oaxaca revolt of 2006 be better understood, replicated and improved upon for years to come.
Available for a $17 donation plus shipping & handling costs
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The High Priestess of Free Love...
According to her contemporaries, Victoria Woodhull was a woman 100 years ahead of her time. Although few have heard of her today, when she ran for President of the United States in 1872, she was one of the most famous women in the country. She advocated many things which we take for granted today: the 8-hour work day, graduated income tax, social welfare programs, and profit sharing, for example.
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull- by Barbara Goldsmith
At the time of the first convention of the woman's rights movement in Seneca Falls, N.Y., 150 years ago, it was safe for an American woman to assume that half of her babies would die in infancy. She well might die herself in childbirth -- contemporary science was just starting to hit upon basic concepts such as sterilization of medical instruments -- or from any number of rampant infectious diseases. Within 15 years of the 1848 convention, the slaughter of the Civil War would kill millions of sons, brothers and husbands. Death was a common and unsurprising occurrence in women's lives.
Not surprising, then, that many of the radical activists fighting for "woman's rights" were among the estimated 10 million people in the post-Civil War United States who believed in spiritualism, or the ability to communicate with the dead. A catharsis for those who were grieving for loved ones, spiritualism also embraced the theory of free love, a parallel movement that, according to author Barbara Goldsmith, "represented the ultimate expression of female liberation."
In "Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull," Goldsmith argues that a key to understanding the age of suffrage is understanding the influence of spiritualism, which empowered women whose channeled "spirit" voices had authority when their own social positions did not. It was just a short leap from leading seances in the homes of benefactors to demonstrating clairvoyant abilities in public halls, thereby enlarging the entrenched idea of home as "women's sphere." Acting on the strength of their spiritualist beliefs, suffragists turned their attention to the hypocritical legal standards that prevented them from being full participants in U.S. society. They demanded the vote.
This one came in the mail today too from one of my http://www.bookmooch.com trades...looking forward to this one like all the others in the queue... :)
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to occult, mystical, and spiritual subjects...
British Library Exhibition
The rarest and most exquisite sacred books and manuscripts presented and explored, side by side, in c major UK exhibition for the first time.
The Mad Cybrarian's Library
of E-Texts
Women & Money
I just received Suze Orman's Women & Money - Owning The Power To Control Your Destiny
from the library and now I have to study .... money ;-)
No time for a novel right now but I'll be back to talk books later ... this is such a wonderful thread, Shells. Great idea :)
Mad Cybrarian?
That sounds like trouble. ;)
That Susie Orman's book gets checked out a lot...
& thanks, bridge... I like this thread too...
When Susie came out on..forget where I first saw her..It seemed like she was ummm...for lack of a lesser word..metaphysical in some ways with her work...not sure if that's how she seems now, with her great success...but I know I liked her way back when..I remember her talking about "thoughts about money" & the like..
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There seems to be a lot of Cybrarian's out there, Sir Real... ;)
I prefer Jim Cramer's last two books more...
...than Suze Orman, personally. And I read one of her huge, famous big-ass books, once.
But, Suze does know a lot. And covers a lot of territory and categories of investing, whether it be bonds, real estate, stocks, (she doesn't recommend annuities as a rule), ... etc...
I've read a lot of "money/investing" books, and there are some good ones. Peter Lynch's books, "Beating the Street," and "One Up on Wall Street," are good, too.
Even if they're a bit old.
Maria Bartoromo had a good book a while back, too.
Cramer's book, "Real Money", is "hands down" IMHO the best investing book I've ever read. He totally tells you his technique.
And his newest book, "Mad Money," is even easier reading.
And, I really did enjoy "Rich Dad, Poor Dad,"...Alice.
It's easy reading. The controversy involving the book is that the "rich dad" character wasn't real. The author won't fess up one way or the other any more.
It's still highly informative, just like Castaneda was,...even if Castaneda may have taken much artistic license and made up stuff to make a point,...and even if the Mexican women in Castaneda's books were actually German chicks in real life. (It's true; my friend met them at a conference held by Carlos just a short time before he died.)
I gave the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" book to my friend's father, who did some home improvement work here at the house the last two days. He seemed really interested in checking it out.
I like the way the book balances conservative and liberal perspectives regarding money.
One of the rules in the book is:
Rich people don't work for money.
:)
Also, if you get a chance,...there's a really good book, called "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties". It just came out. It's great. I got it from the library.
Written by one of Ken Kesey's friends.
I hope your evening is swell.
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Florence Nightengale was gay?
The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present, By Paul Russell
I'm not sure why the gay needs to be pointed out...I mean.. I thought I wanted "a female president" at one point in my life...soooo....
Before I forget (& finish reading your post)...
have you heard of Clark Howard?
http://clarkhoward.com/
I liked his book...the part I read...Plus..I see a lot of people who have never been on a computer come to work to get that "free credit report" & every time they get to the end and it asks for a credit card number...usually they do not have one..But Clark gives the real website to get a real free credit report...
that and more can be yours...;) ..he wrote a money book for kids too...
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How's it going?
What are you reading these days?
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard is always a treat.
Oh ya!
Lots of people check him out...
I hope all turned out well at your fathers house...
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard
DETROIT - June 20, 2007. To help in their pennant bid down the stretch, the Detroit Tigers have acquired novelist, Elmore “Dutch” Leonard. Leonard will serve as designated writer and dialogue coach, helping players with their media interviews, applying a modified version of his Ten Rules of Writing. “Dutch has good stuff,” said Mike Lupica, sports writer for the New York Daily News. “After all the books and all the years, Leonard remains one of the great American writers, and will be a real asset to the Tigers.
spic-n-span and oxy clean
spic-n-span and oxy clean
and a wet dry vac did wonders
: )
Very good..
Chubbs called me from prison! Fun..
bbl..
Can't wait for Carl Hiaasen's next book
last one "Nature Girl" was published in 2006 so he is probably busy writing his next novel. I think he writes for the Miami Herald. He has actually been on MRR, most likely in 2004 or so, but not v. long. Just about ten minutes or so talking to Sam. Great guy.
I have read every one of his novels except the children books. They are so funny, crazy, far out, but w. a serious message: Leave Florida's wildlife, wet lands, nature etc. alone, no more tourists and stop ruining the land building condos and theme parks.
Each one of his books is a riot.
That was fun and is going to cost a mint!
Chubbs is nice.
His voice is much higher than I expected. Same with Nobody' voice...
anywhoozle...
Carl Hiaasen is another popular author at work..Lots of people ask me about fiction books..I never know...
--He has actually been on MRR--
Really?! Wow... I had no idea...
(No subject)
FBI recovers Pearl S. Buck manuscript
The FBI has recovered the long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Good Earth," which had been missing for more than 40 years.
The original typed manuscript had gone missing from Buck's family farm in the Philadelphia suburb of Perkasie around 1966. It turned up earlier this month when it was consigned to a Philadelphia auction house, which notified authorities, FBI spokeswoman Jerri Williams said.
MY LIBRARY update - GOOD NEWS
I am very happy to announce the news, that my library that I have been waiting many years to re-create and have been slowly rebuilding book by book.... is now going to be a definite reality. Now this good news applies to the new house it will be located in as well since a library by itself is not something I need. But the good news is that on Wed, June 27th the library and everything around it was given the GREEN LIGHT by the offical town board of adjustment which means that some time in the winter hopefully, I will be able to be surrounded by my books in all their forms once again.
Best of all, this library is designed to my specifications with wall to wall, floor to ceiling bookshelves, a fireplace with my salvaged 100+ year old mantle surround , and french doors out to a screened in covered 3 season porch overlooking a wetlands preserve. Proper light protection on the glass doors to prevent any damage to the books will be used as a precaution once the construction is complete and we can assess what level of protection is needed.
SO- I just had to share this good news with you Alice, as you were so kind to ask about how I lost my library and offered an ear if I needed to talk, and of course to all who visit Alice's world of books blog. Having my library together again in a usable and enjoyable space is as important to me as the balance of space use and the comfort level of my bed and and other major pieces of furniture.
THanks for all the great book talk in this book niche here.
Everyone, I ask that you please celebrate a moment of gratitude in your own way for this a long awaited milestone for me. It's been 20 years since the initial destruction of the library, and 1 1/2 yrs since the latest destruction of the most current version of the housing of my books ... a mightly long time and I am full of gratitude for everything right now.
Happy reading.
Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
-a definite reality-
-in the winter hopefully, I will be able to be surrounded by my books in all their forms once again.-
Yay for you!
--wall to wall, floor to ceiling bookshelves, a fireplace with my salvaged 100+ year old mantle surround , and french doors out to a screened in covered 3 season porch overlooking a wetlands preserve. Proper light protection on the glass doors to prevent any damage to the books will be used as a precaution once the construction is complete and we can assess what level of protection is needed.--
BOOKGASM...
I sure hope you can post photos as it's being built...with the last one of you by the fireplace in your comfy chair reading... (with your laptop with the Blog right next to you, of course. ;)
Next on my 'to buy' (or mooch) list....
Change The World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today by John Holloway
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The Roots of Consciousness, by Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD
Evaluating Psi Research
How are we to evaluate the evidence for psychic interactions? Psi research offers a mass of experimental evidence that prima facie requires us to take psi seriously. If we apply the same standards used to judge non-controversial claims in the behavioral and social sciences, we would have little choice but to accept that extra-sensorimotor interactions have been experimentally established.
The critics argue that psi claims, if accepted, would dramatically change our self-image and world view. Therefore, they claim, we must use extraordinary care in evaluating the data. As extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, it is reasonable to use a higher standard in looking at psi. They are correct; and psi research, after more than a century, has yet to meet such a higher standard.
Often the skeptics' arguments go even further and assert that psi research is a pseudoscience that mimics the methods of science, but has no real subject matter (since psi does not exist). Over 100 years of research, they assert, have failed to produce solid scientific evidence. Therefore, they maintain that scientists are entitled to ignore psi research, or even formally disaffiliate psi researchers from scientific organizations.
The claim that we should abandon an empirical discipline is, itself, an extraordinary claim; and, as such, requires extraordinary evidence. For the skeptics to make this claim stick, it would be incumbent upon them to demonstrate that the beyond-chance findings of psi research can reasonably be attributed to various artifacts, fraud, or other conventional hypotheses. At the current time, the skeptics are much farther from this goal than the psi researchers are from establishing psi. Thus, according to Trevor Pinch, a sociologist of science:
Psi will not lie down and die; neither will it stand up and be counted.
Psi researchers, by adopting the methods, procedures, and institutions of orthodox science, have been quietly attempting to gain the acceptance and approval of the scientific community, by increasing their rigorous adherence to scientific method and conducting new experiments that meet all published criticisms. Most scientists generally ignore these new studies until, eventually, critics develop new lines of attack against them.
Crit