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Taggarhistory (188), anthropology (164), biography (126), law practice (109), religion (106), war (99), dictionary (96), literature (90), poetry (73) — se alla taggar
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FavoritförfattareGaston Bachelard, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Kieran Healy, Julia Kristeva, Cioran E. M. (Delade favoriter)
Om mig Happily married 57 year old wounded warrior in Orange County, California. My wife is English (Sherwood Forest, Druids and Hobbits having tea...). I bring good fortune to everyone; even my enemies are rich. Brought up in the Amazon jungle, most of what I know I learned from plants and amphibians.
I would like to show ambitious people how to get away with being kind. Then again, teaching is not the suit I pursue as a Lawyer. And when I was young, the Elders took the trouble to try to teach me things I never learned or used. And now I have forgotten more than I ever knew.
Om mitt bibliotek Approx 3000 books: Law, Practical Sciences, Philosophy, History, Literature, Words/Language.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS/Themes:
Seafaring/ Riparian History / Great Rivers (Argonaut);
Collective and Personal Guilt (Engines of Change);
Animals and People that look alike (morphology);
American Indian (compare Natives generally);
Futurist Studies (prediction/seering Pythia);
Religions ( Biodynamic Consciousness ) ;
Vanishing Women (desaparecida);
Museum of Life Sentences;
Stones (Famous Rocks);
Jungle, Amazon Delta;
Cave Paintings;
History of Fire;
Biography;
Cities;
War
THEMES. A kind of sleeper-theme is Conflict Resolution. I also come from the School of Slow Reading, where we learned how to not choke everything down, and as for "communicating" or "understanding", just quietly let those go too. Once you realize the utter futility, the burden of effort falls away, and the world fills with joy. Of course this is not a Theme you tell your clients or people who look to you with specific hopes.
MAUSOLEUM. Yes, LibraryThing can also be used as a living Mausoleum. Of course, I am not making the announcement, which would be "premature" [q.v. Mark Twain], and I never intend to. There is no life after death; but there is light, and stones and stories, and bits of information.
TAGS. I use multiple Tags a lot and try to tag every book with appropriate categories, especially if there is irony, or a Korzybski "cloud" in mind. For me, however, most words are arbitrary Zipfs, and I have no clear picture of how labeling works. Hence, a fairly large collection on Words -- writing and semiotics. I delight in Aristotelean categorical imperatives, especially in Derida-derived deconstructs.
SHELVING. I brutally culled the collection and corralled my impulse to come home with bags of treasure pillaged from -- "avert thine eyes"! -- library sales. Still, retrieval is a problem even for this smaller size. I have five back-to-back shelf racks, with bays between them. I've named the bays and racks. It's like walking into Wood-henge.
REVIEWS AND COMMENTS ("R" and "C"). I am intent on reviewing each book. Among other Cautions:
(1) These are simply my "notes" and are not what I would put up against "book reviews" the professional critics provide for us.
(2) Still working with the difference between "Reviews" and "Comments". I try to introduce the author and capture the gems and qualities of the work in the Review. I try to put the Perspectivity and possible Usage in the Comments. I am not very successful, perhaps belayed by conditions and passions I hardly contain.
(3) Still working on the difference between the information drawn from the work itself, distinct from my "re"-view. Trying to make useful and true comments, even quoting from the text -- see below.
(4) Bracketed numbers refer to the page of the work, and if a small letter accompanies the number, it is an attempt to refine the location.
(5) I try not to be "funny", or Judgmental, because I know "They" are not laughing, and I intend no aid to ideologues or idiots of any persuasion. (But of course, I am FOTFL, or weeping.)
(6) And with 7 billion people on the planet, any dogmatic and extreme opinions of any kind from any of them, are simply -- excuse me -- rude.
(http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockwo... - the Planet has 6.6 billion people as of this writing, but this demographic projection uses an algorithm which assumes facts which are false or unknown.]
QUOTE/S -- Gems/Gifts. I do try to pull out the "gift" or unique or helpful contribution made in a book work, usually in the "Comment" section. [Nota Bene -- I am lobbying for a separate QUOTE section for the entry device].
PHOTO. My icon is one of the great hunter-gatherers of a great tribe, the Chacobo living along the Beni in Bolivia. He wore a woman's choker because of Shaman activity, and he was the only man who bleached his bark dress. He helped me make my first bow and arrows. His are pictured. Notice the length. The quiet confidence and kindness of his heart continues to inspire.
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As regards the 'comparative dictionaries', I fear my lexicography tends too much to the practical, and with slang possibly to the marginal. In all honesty it is not something of which I am aware - for which ignorance I am duly shamed - although if you have the time, I would be delighted to be informed. Then, perhaps, I might make some kind of comment - whether it proves useful is of course another matter.
Best wishes,
JG
inlägg gjort av abecedary vid 9:09 am (EST) Aug 28, 2008
As to the Emerson and Thoreau comments, another careful reader saw my mistake there and corrected me. I was vomiting out random thoughts, mostly bad ones, and I mistaknely referred to them as Existentialists when they are Transcendentalists. I have read some Sarte but not enough to talk about him intelligently.
Thanks again for the message.
I look forward to looking through your library and hearing from you again.
inlägg gjort av blackdogbooks vid 9:15 pm (EST) Aug 20, 2008
What strikes me now about McLuhan is how he managed to develop and retain his faith in Catholicism - or even have any faith at all in Christianity - given his seemingly detached and clinical view of a morphing humankind in an evolutionary environment dominated by technological change. Maybe it was his underlying conservatism that I sensed and appreciated back then.
This quote for example from http://www.theinterim.com/2007/april/18m... is almost shocking, given the secular nature of McLuhan's work and fame - as a critic of TV advertising, for example.
"A common misconception arose that McLuhan actually endorsed new technologies and media. Although Gary Wolfe has observed that McLuhan hoped electronic civilization would provide a spiritual leap forward and put humankind in closer contact with God, McLuhan later called the electronic universe “an unholy imposter … a blatant manifestation of the anti-Christ.” According to Derrick DeKerkhove, current director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, McLuhan privately let it be known that “the devil was in the media.”
“This could be the time of the anti-Christ,” McLuhan said in 1977, alluding to media’s potential to reach every human being on earth at the same time. “It is Lucifer’s moment … The age in which we live is certainly favourable to an anti-Christ.”
That pretty much squares with my view of most media as Maya and attachment. But it would be an interesting study to see how McLuhan puts it in Roman Catholic terminology.
Peace,
G
inlägg gjort av Ganeshaka vid 4:17 pm (EST) Aug 18, 2008
Thanks for the kind note. And greetings from Indonesia. As an author I am grateful you appreciate my book. I don't think the Taman have a unique regard for stones but in all my studies I have never come across an analogous tradition of belief about stones materializing out of spirits and taking on soul attributes. With best regards,
Jay
inlägg gjort av Jaybernstein vid 9:15 pm (EST) Jul 31, 2008
Upon viewing your profile, I felt (I wonder why?) like an anaconda who has swallowed a wizard - head first. I began with a dropped jaw (amazement), then a tickle from the headdress feathers (amusement), then an enormous stomach bulge (the stimulation of new information and a new personality), and, finally sleepiness (as I strive to digest your library). Needless to say, it would child's play to work a trip to Amazon.com into this analogy, but I will suppress (barely) mychildself for now.
I shall return,
-G
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inlägg gjort av Joycepa vid 5:44 pm (EST) Jul 1, 2008
My time in the Amazon (4 trips total, in all about 6 months or so) region was spent in and around the Brasilian town of Tefé where I mostly stayed with the Spiritans Fathers missionaries (which meant living maybe one step above the normal poor Brasilians). Dirt poor area, drug traffic way station, nothing romantic about it except that I fell in love with the river. Tefé itself is not on the Solimões, but on a lake a short distance away. I've been there and on the river during both the dry season and the rainy season, spending some time during the flood (cheia) season in the varzea, or flooded forest. It is the most enchanted area I know of. Period.
Joyce
inlägg gjort av Joycepa vid 10:39 am (EST) Jun 30, 2008
Persian Fire devotes as much time to describing the history and the culture of the Persians as it does to detailing the Hellenic world. The sense of balance is extraordinary, so that we are given an opportunity to see -- and sometimes admire -- the Persians the way the ancient Greeks did. The central character in the war, indeed the saga itself, is (and rightly so) Themistocles, an occasionally rogueish yet saavy, cunning and brilliant authentic hero somewhat akin to the Odysseus of myth. He is the "indispensible man" -- warts and all -- of the Greek triumph. Ironically, he ends up (like so many Greek statesmen of the classic period) later an outcast under sentence of death, living in exile at the pleasure of the Persian Great King.
There is no doubt in my mind that had the Persians persevered in the conflict, the entire history of Western Civilization would have been written in a very different fashion.
Of the couple of hundred books of history I've read, I would rate Persian Fire among the top 5 or 10. Read it and I think you'll agree ...
inlägg gjort av Garp83 vid 7:10 pm (EST) Jun 25, 2008
Reading your profile and admiring your book collection, I might suggest you read [River of Doubt] by Candice Millard, a recent book that is history and so much more, focusing on Theodore Roosevelt's somewhat ill-fated exploration of an unknown river of the Amazon River basin in 1913. So lively and well written you will inhale it.
Another great book is Charles Mann's masterpiece of pre-Columbian historical investigation: [1491]
Grateful for your compliment of my review -- I wish I had time to write more reviews!
inlägg gjort av Garp83 vid 10:13 pm (EST) Jun 24, 2008
Happy Reading!
Jill
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My full time job is as a chaplain in a hospital, and I deal with a wide range of people, and a wider range of spiritual issues.
I am looking forward to prowling around your library for a while. I see you are from So Cal. My wife is down in LA right now. Her family is from there, and most of them still live there. I get down ocassionally, so maybe we can have coffee sometime. (Her family lives in the Los Feliz area, which is pretty far from Orange Country, but then EVERYTHING down there is far from everything else.)
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inlägg gjort av makifat vid 12:37 pm (EST) Feb 9, 2008
Cheers, and happy cataloging.
inlägg gjort av makifat vid 1:41 am (EST) Feb 8, 2008
Julia Child for Mastering the Art of French Cooking, vols I and II, (It has line drawings)
Marcella Hazan for Classic italian Cooking and Cucina,
Elizabeth David for all her books,
Claudia Roden for Jewish Food,
Paula Wolfert for all her books,
Mark Bittman for How to Cook Everything,
Barbara Tropp for her books on Chinese Cooking
and Escoffier, for Guide Culinaire.
The Renaissance of Italian Coooking by Lorenza de medici has some beautiful pictures and descriptions, but the Hazan books are better cookbooks.
inlägg gjort av almigwin vid 2:22 am (EST) Jan 21, 2008
I also look forward to taking a deeper look at your blog.
Cheers!
inlägg gjort av makifat vid 9:59 am (EST) Jan 10, 2008
Malraux indeed. Lol thanks for pointing it out.
Do you know this poem by Stephen Spender?
I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul's history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns,
Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition
Was that their lips, still touched with fire,
Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song.
And who hoarded from the spring branches
The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms.
What is precious is never to forget
The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs
Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth;
Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light,
Nor its grave evening demand for love;
Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother
With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields
See how these names are fêted by the waving grass,
And by the streamers of white cloud,
And whispers of wind in the listening sky;
The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Born of the sun, they traveled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honor.
~ Stephen Spender ~
Your personal post on SAB brought it to mind.
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ps seeing the letter above, i love twain, too, and in my most recent book quote his 1601.
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