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David Quinn A follower of the Infinite I am a highly logical thinker who spends his days immersing himself in the Infinite.The L-Space Web Copyright © Terry Pratchett 2002 When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead."
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In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people — the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter. No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress. As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so.
Collected Essays, by George Orwell
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From the Sunday Times: BOOKS OF THE 1940s 1. Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (Le Deuxieme Sexe) 2. Marc Bloch: The Historian’s Craft (Apologie pour l’historie, ou, Metier d’ historien) 3. Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (La Mediterranee et le monde mediterraneen a l’epoque de Philippe II) 4.Adler, Alfred. Study of Organic Inferiority and Its Physical Compensation: A Contribution to Clinical Medicine . 1917 Adorno, Theodor. Philosophy of Modern Music . 1973 Agee, James.
Booklists - 100 Most Influential Books
The world's most difficult books: how many have you read? | Books
'Fantastically convoluted' … Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. Photograph: Oscar White/Corbis Two and a half. I have read two and a half of the 10 most difficult books ever written, as selected by Emily Colette Wilkinson and Garth Risk Hallberg of the Millions after three years' research. The pair started their quest to identify the toughest books out there back in 2009, looking for "books that are hard to read for their length, or their syntax and style, or their structural and generic strangeness, or their odd experimental techniques, or their abstraction". And I salute them for it – they're entirely aware that people are going to quibble, and use their choices to imply intellectual superiority: "There will, doubtless, be those readers who look scornfully on our choices ("Psh.
SO MUCH TO TELL YOU: the 100 club
These are the 100 most beautiful words in the English language, apparently. Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive.Book-A-Minute Classics
Got another book report to do? English teachers have the inconsiderate habit of assigning mammoth-sized works of literature to read and then actually expecting you to do it. This wouldn't be so bad except that invariably the requisite reading is as boring as fly fishing in an empty lake. Half of those books don't even have discernible plots. And let's face it -- the Cliff's Notes are pretty time-consuming too. Worry no more.
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1925; ed. by Mahadev Desai, 1940
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH by Mohandas K. Gandhi * Editor's note by Mahadev Desai, 1940 * * Editor's note by FWP, 2006 * {This e-text is dedicated to my mother and to my dear friend Pratt Remmel} ~~~~~~~~~~~ * Gandhi's introduction (1925) * ~~~~~~~~~~~ * PART ONE * * PART TWO * * PART THREE * * PART FOUR * * PART FIVE * ~~~~~~~~~~~ PART ONE * 1. Birth and parentage * — * 2.30 Books I’m Glad I Read Before 30
post written by: Marc Email In various ways, these 30 books convey some of the philosophy of how Angel and I live our lives. I honestly credit a fraction of who I am today to each title. Thus, they have indirectly influenced much of what I write about on this site.
Great Books Index - List of Titles
An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation To obtain an index of an author's works, including any known online editions of each work, and online articles about that author, select the author's name. To obtain an index of online editions of a particular work, select the name of that work. Then you will be able to scroll up and down to see other works by that author and articles about the author. Authors are listed here in order of their birthdates (insofar as known).In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential .