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Ramsay Wood

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ICR London 2009 Lecture VIDEO
Extraordinary Voyages of the Panchatantra Lecture:
https://www.amazon.com/Ramsay-Wood/e/...

(Amazon's rules are that no author's video can be more than 10 minutes long, so this one is split into 3 parts (between photos) under my Author Updates).

BIO BITS — Me, Myself and I
I was a 1958 dyslexic teenage apprentice in Saigon to the photographer Henri Huet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Huet).

I ditched college in 1964 to study karate and photography with Robert E Fulton III (www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/12/...) before becoming a freelance photojournalist in Britain, East Africa, and Pakistan.

In 1968 I sold a 5 page spread of text and photos about the poet Robert Graves to LIFE magazine. Later I was reprima ...more

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	Kalila and Dimna #1 - The Panchatantra Retold (book 1 and 2 of 5) by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Doris Lessing (Introduction), Margaret Kilrenny (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 300 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalila and Dimna #2 — Fables of Conflict and Intrigue by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Gillian Whitworth (Illustrator), Michael Wood (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Extraordinary Voyages of the Panchatantra really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cat May Look at a King 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	INPOPA Anthology 2002: Poems by Doris Lessing, Robert Twigger and T.H. Benson by Doris Lessing, Robert Twigger, T.H. Benson 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil His Due by Douglas Arthur Hill (Editor), Keith Roberts (Contributer), Hilary Bailey (Contributer) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cat May Look at a King: & Eight other stories to tell your Cat really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conflito e Intriga: Contos de Kalila e Dimna by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Giliian Whitworth (Illustrator), Michael Wood (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalila et Dimna (vol 2) : Conflits et intrigues (Carnets DDB) (French Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	KALILA E DIMNA: Volume 1 by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Margaret Kilrenny (Illustrator), Daniela Daniela Buzzi (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A new KINDLE English Giveaway starts now— blending gritty FICTION with more sedate NON-FICTION. Two flavors in your-maybe FREE KD2 KINDLE.

(YES, oddly enough my two *Kalila and Dimna* PAPERBACKS are available now ONLY in French or Spanish — so far, anyway. . . .[contact Laura if you experience any sudden, unexpected inspirational Yankee-Doodle commercial flashes!]).

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Ramsay Wood answered a question about Extraordinary Voyages of the Panchatantra: Won this as a GoodReads giveaway, notified on July 5??? Still have not received... OK, Russty — I finally saw your message. I cannot explain why you didn't get your copy so many years ago. Whether it was me slipping up or the international postage from England is irrelevant: send me your address and I'll send you a copy via Air Mai See Full Answer
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“I am the slave of what I have spoken, but the master of what I conceal.”
― Ramsay Wood, Kalila and Dimna #1 - Fables of Friendship and Betrayal

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“Your Majesty, the formula for all human unhappiness is simple yet almost universally ignored: ‘Expectation, nondelivery!”
― Ramsay Wood, Kalila and Dimna #2 - Fables of Conflict and Intrigue

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“The world is a nectar-filled cup And we but gobbling flies. Some hang on the lip and modestly sup While others gorge up to their eyes.”
― Ramsay Wood, Kalila and Dimna #2 - Fables of Conflict and Intrigue

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“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: awareness, history, possibility, timing

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“Translation is at best an echo.”
― George Borrow, Lavengro

tags: meaning, translation, words

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“Life ain't all you want but it's all you got. Stick a flower in your hat and be 'appy.”
― Anonymous

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“The nightingale which cannot bear the thorn, it is best that it should never speak of the rose.”
― Idries Shah

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“The answer to the existence of a fool is silence.”
― Idries Shah

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