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Tell us your own favourite tale-behind-the-tome. Book pile image via Shutterstock. [Editor's note: We're edging into late fall, prime reading season. Recently at The Tyee, we got to talking about our favourite stories behind some classic books -- sometimes a more interesting topic than discussion of the books themselves. Here are some of the stories we shared, but by no means is this a comprehensive list. 1. On March 26, 1969, John Kennedy Toole stopped his car outside Biloxi, Mississippi. For years Toole had tried to get a manuscript published. Two years after Toole died his mother found the book on an armoire in Toole's room. "There was no getting out of it; only one hope remained -- that I could read a few pages and that they would be bad enough for me, in good conscience, to read no farther.
The book was published by the Louisiana State University Press in 1980. 2. 3. 4. Pointerpointer.com by Moniker. An Essay by Einstein. "How strange is the lot of us mortals!
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
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