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Merry philosophy of the day, 4 Sept 2011
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. Thorin Oakenshield, from The Hobbit
Moderate passage of the day, 29 Aug 2011
Yet to Conway it did not appear that the Eastern races were abnormally dilatory, but rather that Englishmen and Americans charged about the world in a state of continual and rather preposterous fever-heat. It was a point of view that … Continue reading
New on Project Gutenberg, 23 Aug 2011
New or updated ebooks of note on Project Gutenberg. The Last Man (1826) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The Door Through Space (1961) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (1887) by J. Bowles Daly and Jonathan … Continue reading
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The War and The Journey
Ursula K. Le Guin connects The Iliad, The Odyssey, Milton, Christianity, the Mahabharata, The Lord of the Rings, and fantasy fiction in this essay on the Book View Cafe Blog, “Papa H”. I was thinking about Homer, and it occurred … Continue reading
Tagged Greece, history, Homer, John Milton, JRR Tolkien, reading, Ursula K Le Guin
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New on Project Gutenberg, 16 Aug 2011
New and recently updated ebooks from Project Gutenberg. Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen Stories of the Railroad (1899) by John A. Hill Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars (1912) by Lester Chadwick
Philip K Dick on The Lathe of Heaven
PKD said: “One of the best novels, and most important to understanding of the nature of our world, is Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven, in which the dream universe is articulated in such a striking and compelling way … Continue reading
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New on Project Gutenberg, 12 Aug 2011
New and notable updates on Project Gutenberg. Antarctic Penguins (1914) by George Murray Levick My Attainment of the Pole (1913) by Frederick A. Cook Equatorial America (1892) by Maturin Murray Ballou