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Jacques Derrida: Glas

Glas

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D. H. Lawrence: The Rainbow

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D. H. Lawrence: The Plumed Serpent

The Plumed Serpent

D. H. Lawrence

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William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

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Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus

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Ayn Rand: The Romantic Manidesto

The Romantic Manifesto

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Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged

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Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

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Orientation Two

Help us find Vio, the missing webmaster, at Ghost Hunt.

Top nine reading list - if you're smart enough to leave alone the noise on Spectral One - after which one ought stop reading altogether because it's nothing but trouble:

William Faulkner   Buy William Faulkner. The greatest

      American literary fiction since Poe, if not Steinbeck.

 

Johann Goethe   Buy Faust:   Part 1   Part 2

 

Georg Hegel   Buy Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind.

 

D. H. Lawrence

 

Buy:   Women in Love   The Virgin and the Gypsy

 

Thomas Mann   Buy Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus.

 

Abraham Maslow   Buy Motivation and Personality.

 

Shakespeare - the power of creation wearing writing for a

       veil such that s-he, they, all as one and not, here

       secrete the essence of art. Nor think you that Vio,  

       the webmaster, need be confused by all the

       identities which greatness demands to be played.  

       Only read what nonsense fair Viola must endure in

       What You Will (Twelfth Night). Buy What You Will.

 

Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol Buy.

 

Alexis de Tocqueville   Buy Democracy in America.

 




Lightweights ever hovering about:

Albert Einstein (action figure available)
When in doubt about much of anything, ask Al ― relates well to just about everything. Were this paragon of human being more regarded many troubles in the world would evaporate. Which may be why we're limited to only 10% of our brain capacity. Anyway, the only preparatory course required for Einstein is Giving a Shit, Actually 101. Buy Relativity by Einstein.
 
Father
Who on one occasion during my adolescence thought I had told a lie. Dishonesty being one of the things my father cannot brook, I received the most severe disciplining of my entire childhood. That I hadn't lied, but only appeared to, is both beyond and central to the point. The correcting I got was sufficient to cause me to spend my life examining truth - as like the greater phenomenon amidst which phenomena occur - and being too honest for my own good. Now look at us. There are at least two people in the world who find the lie as impossible to bear as the truth, and they don't agree on a lot, or appear to not.
 
Jesus
And what historical American better exemplifies one aspect of the principle of the first coming last and the last coming first, the phenomenon of sacrifice that returns a thousand-fold to others, and being pitted with next to nothing in nourishment against impossible odds, than George Washington, forced to retreat and retreat again, wise though looking a fool, then giving up a part as monarch on life's stage unto actualities so much greater that few could, and yet cannot, guess? More importantly, Jesus either rose from death or not. Such is not but the greatest story ever told in every aspect. It is a question that nothing short of the origin of creation can match in importance and priority of understanding.
 
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Who shall conceive, much less perform, largely alone, the painting of a ceiling, every day for three years, on one's back? Not a few. And yet Mich makes a lot of artists, musicians and writers look like wannabe privileged, spoiled children more interested in easy life and looking hip than art, music or writing. Nor for but the Sistine alone. For instance, he spent as much time on theory and the implications of his work as he did performing it. Very well compensated, but no fly-by-night producing instant pieces of self-glory. Buy the classic by Vasari, The Lives of the Artists. Or the classic biographical novel, The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone.
 
Mother
Who took us to the library every week as children, and showed me the Beatitudes. (Now look at us.)
 
Wolfgang Mozart
Definitely not Mich. But when you connect with Genius instant pieces can become gravestones far exceeding other lack thereat. Why else would Al play secretary? If you happen to be listening at this moment you're at the right place. Buy Mozart:

             Complete Concertos

             Complete Symphonies

Sister
What Hegel meant by dialectic. Agreeing to disagree and disagreeing to agree, she says "north" and I "south" toward a future equator that has always already been. When it comes to the unknown greater we would all likely agree would we only see through the small stuff. Spontaneous creativity, generosity though her own well be empty, knowledge with wisdom, wit all too sensible of the logical, thus ridiculous, passion fearing not a swords match even with the likes of Captain Quill - this nonpretender unique is dialogue insofar as she thinks herself not above love.
 
Socrates
The capacity to see both sides of everything, thus the larger, can be bad for one's health (though good for 19th century philosophy: Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and 20th century physics). One would that he hung around in more places than libraries, and that some who've read Plato weren't so quick with their own boxes of certainty, judgment and hemlock. Buy Plato, the whole Big Bang.
 
Solomon
And punctuality (Ecclesiastes 3), which is the only "aim" of this website. Buy a King James Bible.
 
Pontius Pilate
Who said, "What is truth?" then went out to deal with the world of noise. There being safety in numbers all alike, most were certain that they knew much about God, and that a "blasphemer" in their midst needed to be taught an enormously cruel lesson. A few authorities, however, simply liked their comfortable lifestyle, "authority" then, as now, more generally purchased than actual. Truth be damned to keep it, and human being as replica be praised. Proverbially caught between Charybdis and Scylla, not to mention the caesar, what to do? Keep the peace via the sacrifice of one, in whom he found no guilt, or hold to truth with consequences rather worse?
 
Rolling Stones   Shop for Rolling Stones.
Don't play Simon Says. If you happen to be listening at this moment you're at the right place.

This much said, there are ghosts, und ein Geist, who the greater they are means the less acknowledgement they can receive, ignorance precluding appreciation.

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