2025 Reading Challenge

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January
Ulysses notes:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

~~The Odyssey January 3,4,5 chapter 4,7@18%~~ 1/14/16
~~And The Odyssey of Homer~~ 4.5 hours finished January 4.

Group reading og The Odyssey
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Villette/b> (January and February) 22/ 2= 11. About 3 hours a week

Fiction to Realty
~~The Beautiful and Damned~~January 4@6%,5@16%,9@28%,11@55%,12@72%1/14/16

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life 20@24%

~~Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be~~ 1:30 for 4 weeks January 1,2,3,4,5,7, 9

The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
Goal 20% a month January 1, 4@7%,5@ 9%,21@13%, 28@14%

~~The Mythology of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome 2:30 for 2 weeks January 5@54%, 7@66%, 9@85%,~~ January 15, 2016

~~Parzival January 2,3,4,5 @ 66%, 16@71%,18@76%,21@82%,25@86%[the story is finished, notes for second reading to go.~~
Rudolf Steiner and folk/mythology/ legend videos
https://m.youtube.com/#/channel/UCqX4...

Dead Writers Society
The January side project, which you can find here has some easy reading challenges for your reading pleasure:
I want to do one and four.

1. Read 1500 pages
2. Read a book with snow on the cover, either pictures or word in title [book:Hidden Messages in Water|33335]
3. Read a cozy mystery
4. ~~In honor of Winnie the Pooh day (18th) read a book by A.A. Milne January 17,@ 79%~~
5. Read the first book in a new to you series:
The Sword in the Stone
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... not going to finish

[All About Books] Seasonal Non-fiction Theme January-March 2016 (Inventions and Discoveries)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

~~The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler~~ January 5, 7@36%, 16@52%, 17@ 94,18@100%

Your Body's Many Cries For Water January 6,7, 24@65%,25@76

~~Effortless Healing: 9 Simple Ways to Sidestep Illness, Shed Excess Weight, and Help Your Body Fix Itself~~ January 6

The G.I. Diet Clinic January 16 @18%

Catcher In The Rye group read
The Catcher in the Rye
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Infinite Jest6 hours
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...
Have been listening to David Foster Wallace interviews
http://www.dfwaudioproject.org/interv...

Heart of Darkness buddy read with Mkfs
22@55% January 23
Thomas Carlyle
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoma...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg...

~~King Leopold's Soliloquyby mark twain~~ January 31@100%
http://www.archive.org/stream/kingleo...

Did it stop their mouths? No,
they merely pointed out that it was a commis-
sion composed wholly of my "Congo butchers,"
"the very men whose acts were to be inquired
into." They said it was equivalent to appoint-
ing a commission of wolves to inquire into dep-
redations committed upon a sheepfold. Noth-
ing can satisfy a cursed Englishman!*

They
remind the world that from the earliest days my
house has been chapel and brothel combined,
and both industries working full time

They remark that "if the innocent
blood shed in the Congo State by King Leopold
were put in buckets and the buckets placed side
by side, the line would stretch 2,000 miles; if
the skeletons of his ten millions of starved and
butchered dead could rise up and march In single
file, it would take them seven months and four
days to pass a given point;
And they do
similar miracles with the money I have distilled
from that blood and put into my pocket.

Well ... no matter, I
did beat the Yankees, anyway ! there's comfort in
that. [Reads with mocking smile, the Presi-
dent's Order of Recognition of April 22, 1884

"Other
Christian rulers tax their people, but furnish
schools, courts of law, roads, light, water and
protection to life and limb in return; King Leo-
pold taxes his stolen nation, but provides nothing
in return but hunger, terror, grief, shame, cap-
tivity, mutilation and massacre."

The poets — how they do hunt that
poor Czar! French, Germans, English, Ameri-
cans — they all have a bark at him. The finest
and capablest of the pack, and the fiercest, are
Swilburne (English, I think), and a pair of
Americans, Thomas Bailey Eldridge and Colon-
el Richard Waterson Gilder, of the sentimental
periodical called Century Magazine and Louis-
ville Courier-Journal.

They never bark at me; I wonder why that is.
I suppose my Corruption-Department buys
them. That must be it, for certainly I ought to
Inspire a bark or two;
There is no
longer any dispute in the mind of any reasonable person as to
what is going on in the Congo. It is the economical
exploitation of half a continent carried on by the use of
armed force wielded by officials the aim-all and be-all
of whose existence is to extort the maximum amount of
rubber in the shortest possible time in order to pay the
largest possible dividend to the holders of shares in the con-
cessions."

[book:Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone|595069]

Gone with the Wind
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
10% a month for 10 months
January 23@7%, 24@10%

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph goal 2 hours January 26@15%, 28@20%

Literary Birthdays 2016
In this challenge, you will read one book each month by a dead author who was born in that month.
https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Reading
~~A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh born January 18~~

~~Edith Wharton The Glimpses of the Moon 1922 19@42%~~ January 21
"kiss with a future on it"

J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit January 30 @21%

~~The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin~~ January 23 @22%, 24@64%, 26@100%

The Aetiology of Obesity
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypllo.... January 22

Part 2:
https://youtu.be/dimP7IdM2Og January 24

Part 3:
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Zbnsh...

Part 4
https://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&r...

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February
Top of page:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Joyce Project
http://joyceproject.com/
Audio book:
https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-A...

Ulysses
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Jan 30-Feb 5: Episodes 4 & 5 (Calypso & Lotus Eaters) (22 pgs)
45/ 42 read January 31<

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyp...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibra...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metem...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus
Cacti are native to the Americas, ranging from Patagonia in the south to parts of western Canada in the north—except for Rhipsalis baccifera, which also grows in Africa and Sri Lanka.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge...
Forget-me-nots are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the setaceous Hebrew character.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepid...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setac...
One quirk of some Viola is the elusive scent of their flowers; along with terpenes, a major component of the scent is a ketone compound called ionone, which temporarily desensitises the receptors of the nose, thus preventing any further scent being detected from the flower until the nerves recover.[citation needed]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Greek anemōnē means "daughter of the wind", from ánemos the wind god "wind" + feminine patronymic suffix -ōnē.[4] The Metamorphoses of Ovid tells that the plant was created by the goddess Venus when she sprinkled nectar on the blood of her dead lover Adonis. The name "windflower" is used for the whole genus as well as the wood anemone A. nemorosa.[

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone

~~Feb 6-12: Episode 6 (Hades) (20 pgs)~~ February 16
1:08
Theme:
In the midst of death we breed life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliu...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin...

~~Feb 13-19: Episode 7 (Aeolus) (38 pages)~~ February 16

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herme...

Sufficient is the day of the newspaper thereof.
(Instead of sufficient is the day is the evil there of.)

~~Feb 20-26: Episode 8 (Lestrygonians) (23 pages)~~
1:08/ 31 February 16

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_K...
They buy the place up with gold and still they have all the gold. Swindle in there somewhere.

Sun spots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archd...

those judges have. Crusty old topers in wigs. Bear with a sore paw. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.

Professor:
Bloom blood sacrifices, blood of the lamb, lamb is another term for the children of Israel. Where the adults do not enter but the children or lambs do. Lot of talk about Moses who sees the promise land but doesn't enter it.

Bloom is a free mason.

Rabbi Br. Isaac Wise, in The Israelite of America, March 8, 1866: “Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, degrees, charges, passwords and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end.”

Benjamin Disraeli, Jew, Prime Minister of England, in The Life of Lord George Bentick: “At the head of all those secret societies, which form provisional governments, men of the Jewish race are to be found.”

like this thought of Bloom's, relating to seeing Parnell's brother, and AE 'Coming events cast their shadow before.' An interesting idea.

[book:The Rothschilds - The Financial Rulers of Nations|26241876]

The Rothschilds - Financial rulers of nations Quintessential Classics
https://play.google.com/books/reader?...
Feb 27-Mar4: Episode 9 (Scylla & Charybdis) (25 pgs)
56/ 20

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan, #6) readFebruary 8, @32,10@68\98

~~Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life~~ February 21

The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
2hrs January @13%, February 2@16% February 21@17%

~~Gone with the Windgoal-10%,~~February 1@13%, Feb 20%

~~Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and LivingstoneJanuary@27%,~~ February 21
Great book! Well written and the ending was good!

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Chapters 1 - February 8

The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back AgainJanuary@27% Quit
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I have given up on the Hobbit. It is just too boring. The descriptions of places are bland. After you hear of one dark forest another is just another. Naming the spider "sting" just childish geberish. His son was right, this was a good book for a 5-9 year old. I think they might improve reading, reading this book because the vocabulary repeats enough.

DWS February ~ Romance
Villette 11 hrs read 50% February 26

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY

Buddy read:
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
January 25@4%,29@11%, Feb 1 @35%,Feb 3@41%
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Digressions are the sunshine, the life, and the soul of reading, says Tristram: "Take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them." The author's problem is serious: if he digresses, the whole book stands still, "and if be goes on with his main work, — then there is an end of his digression." But he has constructed the book so that, like one wheel within another, the "digressive and progressive movements" go on together, and "it shall be kept a-going these forty years."

we continue to know more about Uncle Toby's character even though Tristram is ostensibly talking about something else.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature...
Uncle Toby's "life was put in jeopardy by words," not by ideas.

Writing is like conversation, says Tristram: you leave your partner something to imagine. Imagine, then,

The Lockean concept of Duration, which Walter pompously and elaborately paraphrases, is that "men derive their ideas of duration from their reflection on the train of ideas they observe to succeed one another in their own understandings." It is a basic part of Tristram's method of presenting his story; together with the "psychology of the train of ideas," it enables Tristram to break away from the conventional scheme of temporal and spatial reporting.
Book 3:chapters 13-20

The mention of Rabelais and Cervantes points up their importance to the author; there are many references to both of these writers' works, and there
Parlor games
http://www.victoriaspast.com/ParlorGa...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

~~1984~~
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
April 4
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

Birthday https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_...
Decadence: And Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph January @21%,10@30%

Short story group
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I, Robot
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

A Farewell to Arms

The Aeneid by Virgil see library

All's Well That Ends Well

Challenges:
Patras -Greece
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
6 Audio books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1. Winesburg, Ohio Feb 28
2. The Sorrows of Young Werther Feb 18
3. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone February 21
4. 1984
5. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life February 21
6. Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan, #6) February 28

Xi-an China challenge 3 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Bookworm has given us our monthly tasks here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1. Read 1500 pages
2. Read a book with red, pink or flowers on the cover, either picture or word in title
3. Read a pair of linking titles (intertwined love) - titles link with like word
.....ie. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

4. Short month, so read a collection of short stories
~~Winesburg, Ohio~~ 2/27 February 28
5. It's the Year of the Monkey, read a book with a monkey in it (Chinese New Year, February 8)Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan, #6)

Wuthering Heights
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

~~The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families~~ February 28
~~The Lessons of History~~ February 28
Movies:
Dark Journey
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RYZkd...

“A good novelist creates powerfully vivid images in the reader’s mind and nothing is more natural than that the beginning novelist should try to imitate the effects of some master, because he loves that writer’s vivid world. But finally imitation is a bad idea.” ---------- One effective way to start writing novels is to type out a novel you love, word for word, page by page. You will develop a real feel for what it takes to write a good novel (getting the craft even into your muscles and fingers). However, as John Gardner notes, this is a beginner’s practice – at some point, sooner rather than later, you are on your own.

From:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Character building
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/j...

Character sketch:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chara...

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Dec 16, 2015 09:43PM

March
Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wi...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarians
Mar 19- Apr 1 (2 weeks): Episode 12 (Cyclops) (37 pgs)
CHIMNEY SWEEP
https://www.midtownsweeps.com/the-spa...

In the year 1841 the number of chimney sweeps in Britain totaled 5028. More than one hundred and twenty of them were widows who had taken over their husband's businesses. There were eight hundred chimney sweeps in and around London and those tradesmen employed four hundred journeymen and sixty two boys. Although there were a large number of chimneys to sweep, most of their income still came from collecting and selling soot. - See more at: https://www.midtownsweeps.com/the-spa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimn...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o29PuFb...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy... famine:

Biscuit Tin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscu...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balor Balor of the Evil Eye

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_O...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_...

Dark Horse
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_...
Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian...
Africa and Ireland:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.a...

The Description of Wales
by
Gerald of Wales
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1092/1...

Jews and Ireland
http://www.aish.com/jw/s/Jews-and-Ire...

Pistachio
Archaeology shows that pistachio seeds were a common food as early as 6750 BC.[2] Pliny the Elder writes in his Natural History that pistacia, "well known among us"

Lionel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lione...

Trojan Horse
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troja...

http://www.eirefirst.com/archive/unit...
The morality rates and the horror

Study
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.a...

1.Mar 19-25: up to "The proceedings then terminated." (19 pgs)
2. Mar26- Apr 1: from "Amongst the clergy present were the......" to the end. (18 pgs)

~~The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman~~ March 1,
"soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloth'd at the same time; and if he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination, genteelized along with him—so that he has nothing to do, but take his pen, and write like himself."

"Toby, I love mankind more than either; and as the knowledge of arms tends so apparently to the good and quiet of the world—and particularly that branch of it which we have practised together in our bowling-green, has no object but to shorten the strides of Ambition, and intrench the lives and fortunes of the few, from the plunderings of the many—whenever that drum beats in our ears, I trust, corporal, we shall neither of us want so much humanity and fellow-feeling, as to face about and march."

for there you would have learnt that there are two Loves—I know there were two Religions,...amongst the ancients—one—for the vulgar, and another for the learned;—but I think One Love might have served both of them very well— I could not; replied my father—and for the same reasons: for of these Loves, according to Ficinus's comment upon Velasius, the one is rational— —the other is natural—the first ancient—without mother—where Venus had nothing to do: the second, begotten of Jupiter and Dione—

Ficinus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsi...

" Love, you see, is not so much a Sentiment as a Situation,"

"love keeps peace in the world— —In the house—my dear, I own— —It replenishes the earth; said my mother— But it keeps heaven empty—my dear; replied my father. —'Tis Virginity, cried Slop, triumphantly, which fills paradise. Well push'd nun! quoth my father."

"This is precisely my situation. For in this long digression which I was accidentally led into, as in all my digressions (one only excepted) there is a master-stroke of digressive skill, the merit of which has all along, I fear, been over-looked by my reader,—not for want of penepenetration in him,—but because 'tis an excellence seldom looked for, or expected indeed, in a digression;—and it is this: That tho' my digressions are all fair, as you observe,—and that I fly off from what I am about, as far, and as often too, as any writer in Great Britain"

Lost Illusions

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Money:

Bookmark kindle 145158

~~Robinson Crusoe started March 15,18@75%~~

Reminds me of Robinson Caruso:
1610, A New Description of Ireland was published. Its author, Barnaby Rich wrote:

"The time hath been, when they lived like Barbarians, in woods, in bogs, and in desolate places, without politic law, or civil government, neither embracing religion, law or mutual love. That which is hateful to all the world besides is only beloved and embraced by the Irish, I mean civil wars and domestic dissensions .... the Cannibals, devourers of men's flesh, do learn to be fierce amongst themselves, but the Irish, without all respect, are even more cruel to their neighbors." (6.)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.a...
THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN.
http://www.luminarium.org/editions/tr...
English writer Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, lampooned the notion of English superiority in a poem, "A True-born Englishman". The preface began: "The intent of the satire is pointed at the vanity of those who talk of their antiquity, and value themselves upon their pedigree, their ancient families, and being True-Born; whereas it is impossible we should be True-Born: and if we could, should have lost in the bargain."

Defoe then listed the diverse peoples who had settled in England: Romans, Gauls, Greeks, Lombards, Scots, Picts, Danes and "slaves of every nation", and concluded: "From this amphibious ill-born mob began that vain ill-natured thing, an Englishman." (10.)

All the Books on Shackleton's bookshelf:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-3563...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph @31%, March 14 @33%

~~Gone with the Wind@20%, March 25 @27%,26@31%~~

The Decline of the West@17_March 2,@20%_

~~Sun Tzu & Machiavelli Leadership Secrets: How To Become A Superior Leader Utilizing The Principles Of The Art Of War And The Prince~~

~~Villette@50%March 2 @61%~~ March 26
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
74% March 15.

CHALLENGES
Cities of the World - Agrigento, Sicily
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Literary birthday:
https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Joseph Campbell
~~The Power of Myth~~ March 31
He mentions this book:
https://archive.org/stream/essaysonre...
What is love:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trist...
Character sketches:
http://www.eudaemonist.com/biblion/ch...

Fiction protocol
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przi... No. 1_____________________

Little Ice Age
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littl...

_https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_W...

Buddy Read:
We March 14
My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
We Topical Discussions
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_...

Symbols:
http://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php...

Buddy:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5...

Nominated the book for April
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
______________________________________

101 books before you die.
Catch-22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Non Fiction/ Fiction
~~A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science~~ March 3@55%, 4@100%

Books finished:
We March 14

~~Robinson Crusoe~~ March 20

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Dec 16, 2015 09:44PM

April
Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Ulysses April

I think Molly equals America or Bolden equals America

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Ulysses Buddy Read:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Apr 9-15: Episode 14 (Oxen of the Sun) (30 pgs)

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=NdbhX...

Apr 16- May13 (4 weeks): Episode 15 (Circe) (120 pgs)
1. Apr 16-22: to & including Paddy Dignam "Pray for the repose of his soul" (30 pgs)
2. Apr 23-29: from Tom Rochford "(A hand to his breastbone)" to & including Virag's Head "Quack" (30 pages)
3. Apr30- May 6: from Stephen "(over his shoulder to Zoe")" to & including Lynch "the mirror up to nature"

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

April 11
Babbitt
Satire of:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_T...
To read with Amanda
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4...

April ~ Family saga
Buddy Read
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
The Challenge Factory discussion
♦Buddy Read Challenge♦ > April Buddy Read Discussion

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

http://www.bookdrum.com/books/the-for...

The Forsyte Saga
Read 23% between April 1-7
Read 46% between April 8- 14
Read 69% between April 15-22
Read 92% between April 23-30
Read 100% between May 1-7
FAMILY TREE AND LIST OF CHARACTERS
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

My last comment on the group:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Queen was dead, and the air of the greatest city upon earth grey with unshed tears. Fur-coated and top-hatted, with Annette beside him in dark furs, Soames crossed Park Lane on the morning of the funeral procession, to the rails in Hyde Park. Little moved though he ever was by public matters, this event, supremely symbolical, this summing-up of a long rich period, impressed his fancy. In '37, when she came to the throne, 'Superior Dosset' was still building houses to make London hideous; and James, a stripling of twenty-six, just laying the foundations of his practice in the Law. Coaches still ran; men wore stocks, shaved their upper lips, ate oysters out of barrels; 'tigers' swung behind cabriolets; women said, 'La!' and owned no property; there were manners in the land, and pigsties for the poor; unhappy devils were hanged for little crimes, and Dickens had but just begun to write. Well-nigh two generations had slipped by—of steamboats, railways, telegraphs, bicycles, electric light, telephones, and now these motorcars—of such accumulated wealth, that eight per cent. had become three, and Forsytes were numbered by the thousand! Morals had changed, manners had changed, men had become monkeys twice-removed, God had become Mammon—Mammon so respectable as to deceive himself: Sixty-four years that favoured property, and had made the upper middle class; buttressed, chiselled, polished it, till it was almost indistinguishable in manners, morals, speech, appearance, habit, and soul from the nobility. An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money, he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonised hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be. A great Age, whose transmuting influence nothing had escaped save the nature of man and the nature of the Universe.

Classics without all the class:
For the month coming up, April, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer had a huge victory over all the other titles so we're going to be having quite a challenge coming up!

Crime and Punishment
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I Capture the Castle
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY
Zola Émile
Finish Money:

Daniel Defoe

Gulivers Travels

That reality is best described by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels:

"A crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither, at length a boy discovers land from the topmast, they go on shore to rob and plunder; they see an harmless people, are entertained with kindness, they give the country a new name, they take formal possession of it for the King, they set up a rotten plank or a stone for a memorial, they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple of more by force for a sample, return home and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity, the natives driven out or destroyed, their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people."

https://www.rt.com/usa/341023-bundy-g...

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May

Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Apr30- May 6: from Stephen "(over his shoulder to Zoe")" to & including Lynch "the mirror up to nature"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil...
Isn't Blooms daughter Millie? His wife is in the theater...her name Molly?

I think the costumes are significant in Circes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonic...
Or woodbine
The tubular, two-lipped flowers[2] are creamy white or yellowish and very sweet smelling (especially during the night). The plant is usually pollinated by moths or long-tongued bees and develops bright red berries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowle...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4. May 7-13: from Shakespeare "(in dignified ventriloquy)" to end of episode

The Nostos
May 14-20: Episode 16 (Eumaeus) (36 pgs)

May21- June3 (2 weeks): Episode 17 (Ithaca) (52 pages)
1. May 21-27: to & including "Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological influences upon sublunary disaster?" (26 pgs)
2. May28- June 3: from "What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?" to end of episode (26 pgs)

The Good Earth
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

DWS- May ~ Mystery/Thriller

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY

Beauty and the beast
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Dec 16, 2015 09:45PM

June

Schedule for Ulysses by James Joyce
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

My schedule for Ulysses:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Buddy Reads
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

May21- June3 (2 weeks): Episode 17 (Ithaca) (52 pages)
1. May 21-27: to & including "Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological influences upon sublunary disaster?" (26 pgs)
2. May28- June 3: from "What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?" to end of episode (26 pgs)

June 4-16 (2 weeks): Episode 18 (Penelope) (31 pages)
Molly's section is one long, long sentence. It's also the only time we have to spend with her. It would be interesting to take her section slow and discuss her thoughts over a 2 week stretch.

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

DWS- June ~ Biography/Memoir/Diary

Gone with the Wind
Buddy read:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Master and Margarita
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY
Thomas Hardy

Moby Dick
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Success literature

http://www.inc.com/quora/9-habits-of-...

https://www.quora.com/Productivity-Ti...

Read these
The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

Bull's Eye: The Power of Focus

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

https://www.quora.com/topic/Tips-and-...

https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep...

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/...

http://storybistro.com/best-books-lea...

https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzus-Art-P...

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...

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Dec 16, 2015 09:45PM

July

Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Infinite Jest
http://www.bookdrum.com/books/infinit...

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4...

Finished

Gone with the Wind
July ~ Fantasy

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded: The Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Novel with its Many Hidden Meanings Revealed need 22 dollars
Finished July 11

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Birthday
The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

The Divine Comedy comment
https://www.goodreads.com/user_status...

I have been into self help material lately:

http://www.inc.com/quora/9-habits-of-...

https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep...

Storytelling games
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/...

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...

There is a structure in the way the animal society is set up, that is possibly hard for Americans to recognize. The entire novel is actually the British class system in miniature. Badger is the crusty old squire, with the authority -- appealed to whenever there is something that has to be done, and the dispenser of goodies to the suitably deferential. Toad is the rich young playboy who inherited Dad's estate -- even when he gets into trouble his life is not actually destroyed. Ratty and Mole and even Otter are the minor gentry of the neighborhood. Notice how they do not have to work at jobs. They live on their income.
And in this analysis the weasels and stoats are clearly the working class. Refusing to stay in their place, grabbing at things they do not deserve and cannot appreciate

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Dec 16, 2015 09:46PM

August

Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Sometimes a Great Notion

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28434/...

The Black Tulip

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...

DWS- DEAD WRITERS SOCIETY
August ~ War

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY

Leaves of Grass

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Wordsworth) by Edward Gibbon

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) by James Fenimore Cooper

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Dec 16, 2015 09:46PM

Sept

Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-...
JFK to 911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick
65 min

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conra...

Passing of the Third Floor Back, 1935, Conrad Veidt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nUL2Lxa...

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

DWS
September ~ Myths, Fables, & Fairy Tales

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY

Finished:

Presence Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy

9/6/16

Candide

9/7/16

Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest Improve your Memory and Learning, Organize Your Brain, and Effectively Manage Your Knowledge by Helmut Sachs

Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest: Improve your Memory and Learning, Organize Your Brain, and Effectively Manage Your Knowledge

~~The 42nd Parallel~~

The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A., #1) by John Dos Passos

September 30

The Canterbury Tales

~~The Mayor of Casterbridge~~ September 22, 2016

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World

Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction

Jung's Map of the Soul An Introduction by Murray Stein

Pale Fire

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

~~Breakfast at Tiffany's~~

~~The Art of X-Ray Reading~~

September 27, 2016

Inflation is a slow tax.

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Dec 16, 2015 09:47PM

October

Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

~~Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph~~

Brighton Rock
Finished 10-12-16

The Financier

The Financier (Trilogy of desire, #1) by Theodore Dreiser

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Anna Karenina

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Rereading

~~book:The 42nd Parallel|7101]~~

https://archive.org/details/progressa...

1919

The Decline of the West
https://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&r...
October ~ Horror

Dark allianceDark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY

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Dec 16, 2015 09:47PM

November

Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1919

Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction
Jung's Map of the soul

Profiles in Courage

How Great Science Fiction Works

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Big Money

The Big Money (U.S.A., #3) by John Dos Passos

DWS
November ~ Historical/Social Fiction

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY

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Dec 16, 2015 09:47PM

December

Top of page:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus December 6

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildu...
In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn]; German: "novel of formation, education, culture"),[a] novel of formation, novel of education,[2] or coming-of-age story (though it may also be known as a subset of the coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age),[3] in which character change is extremely important.[4][5]

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

STARTED MY 2017 CHALLENGE HERE!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

DWS
December ~ Humor

DWS - LITERARY AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY

Joseph Conrad

Thomas Hardy
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introductionfinished December 7

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Dec 16, 2015 09:52PM

RESERVED

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Dec 16, 2015 09:58PM

TOP ON MY LIST THIS YEAR IS ULYSSES BY JAMES JOYCE.
Map of Ulysses
http://joyce-ulysses.net/?q=node/20

Yale University discussion of Ulysses:
http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wi...

JOYCE IMAGES
http://joyceimages.com/

Reviews by Sheila Omalley
http://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=1177

Audiobook
https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-A...

Ulysses

Reading schedule:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1Telemachus https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... 45 minutes January 4

2Nestor https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 32 minutes

3Proteus https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 48 minutes

4Calypso https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... 45 minutes

5Lotus Eaters https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... 42 minutes

6Hades. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 1: 08 hour/minutes

7Aeolus https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

8Lestrygonians https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1:08 hour/minutes
31 minutes

9Scylla and Charybdis https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
56 minutes
20:16 minutes

10Wandering Rocks. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1 hour
24:14

11.Sirens. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1 hour
27 minutes

12Cyclops https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1:02 hours
1:11 hour

13Nausicahttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
58:36 minutes
45:minutes

http://home.earthlink.net/~mdmeighan/...

14Oxen of the Sun https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
57 minutes
1 hour
20minutes

15Circe https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Part 1 1:07 hours/minutes
Part 2 59 minutes
Part 3. 1:09 hour/minutes
Part 4. 1:01 hour/minutes
Part 5. 30 minutes
16 Eumaeus https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Part 1. 1:01 hours/minutes
Part 2. 1:11 hour/minutes
17Ithacahttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Part 1. 55 minutes
Part 2. 58 minutes
Part 3. 42 minutes
18Penelope. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Part 1. 59 minutes
Part 2 54 minutes
Part 3. 21 minutes

Joseph Campbell Wings of art on James Joyce:
1/6
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...
2/6
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...
3/6
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...
3b/6
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...
4/6
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthu...
He said it would seem that or collective consciousness is like a novel we are acting out, who wrote the novel.
In India this was called:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu

5/6
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...

6/6

Notes on James Joyce's Ulysses
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~fa1871/joy...

Ulysses online, it is a completely interactive version of the full text. Click on any phrase you don't interstand and a popup window situates and explains the text. Fabulous.

http://joyceproject.com/

podcast. It's BBC Radio 4, In Our Time - Culture with Melvyn Bragg and a couple of guests dated 26 November 2009. It's titled 'Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', but it's not only about the book but also an excellent introduction to Joyce, putting him in context.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=In+our+...

It was 42 minutes well spent.
downloaded 4 other podcasts in the same series, which may be relevant. They are:

26 April 2001 Literary Modernism
9 September 2004 The Odyssey
13 March 2008 The Greek Myth
14 June 2012 James Joyce's Ulysses

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https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Ulysses
Modern Scholars series or Great Courses
Professor Biography....................................................................................i Acknowledgments......................................................................................iii Course Scope...............................................................................................1 Lecture One The Story of a Modern Masterpiece..................3
Lecture Two Telemachus at the Martello Tower....................7
Lecture Three Nestor at School...............................................11
Lecture Four Proteus on Sandymount Strand........................15
Lecture Five Breakfast with Calypso....................................19
Lecture Six Leopold Bloom and the Lotus Eaters...............23
Lecture Seven Hades...............................................................27
Lecture Eight A Bag of Winds...............................................32
Lecture Nine Lestrygonians at Lunchtime.............................36
Lecture Ten Scylla and Charybdis, I....................................40
Lecture Eleven Scylla and Charybdis, II...................................44
Lecture Twelve Wandering Rocks.............................................49
Lecture Thirteen The Sirens of the Ormond Hotel......................54 Lecture Fourteen Citizen Cyclops, I.............................................59
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Lecture Fifteen Citizen Cyclops, II...........................................63
Lecture Sixteen Nausicaa at the Beach......................................67
Lecture Seventeen Oxen of the Sun...............................................71 Lecture Eighteen Circe of Nighttown, I.......................................75
Lecture Nineteen Circe of Nighttown, II......................................79 Lecture Twenty Eumaeus...........................................................83

Lecture Twenty-One Return to Ithaca, I............................................87 Lecture Twenty-Two Return to Ithaca, II...........................................91
Lecture Twenty-Three Molly Bloom Speaks........................................95
Lecture Twenty-Four Joyce and the Modern Novel...........................99

Table of Contents The Odyssey of Homer Professor Biography....................................................................................i
Course Scope...............................................................................................1
Lecture One Heroes’ Homecomings.......................................3
Lecture Two Guests and Hosts................................................8
Lecture Three A Goddess and a Princess................................12
Lecture Four Odysseus among the Phaiakians......................16
Lecture Five Odysseus Tells His Own Story........................20
Lecture Six From Persephone’s Land to the Island of Helios...........................................................24
Lecture Seven The Goddess, the Swineherd, and the Beggar.................................................27
Lecture Eight Reunion and Return.........................................31
Lecture Nine Odysseus and Penelope....................................35
Lecture Ten Recognitions and Revenge...............................39
Lecture Eleven Reunion and Resolution...................................43
Lecture Twelve The Trojan War and the Archaeologists..........47 Timeline.....................................................................................................51 Glossary.....................................................................................................54 Biographical Notes....................................................................................58 Bibliography..............................................................................................66

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Dec 16, 2015 09:59PM

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Swans way
A-2 https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...
Total pages read

The Beautiful and Damned

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

*Authors are new to me.

Books i have TBR.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
A People's History of the United States
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Meditations
Gone with the Wind
The Complete Essays
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline of the West

Poetry

Hilda Doolittle
http://www.amazon.com/Trilogy-Directi...

I would like to read 30 short stories:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

3 poetry books
1. Kora and Ka with Mira-Mare by Hilda Doolittle 1934
poetry.
2. The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
3. Leaves of Grass

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Dec 19, 2015 12:09PM

Good luck with your challenges, Cosmic! It looks like you have some great books picked out already.

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Dec 20, 2015 04:45PM

Weight watchers movie list https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Dec 22, 2015 05:36PM

Volume 1 Harvard Classics Volume 1: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Journal of John Woolman; Some Fruits of Solitude

Volume 2The Harvard Classics, Volume 2: The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato, the Golden sayings of Epictetus, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Volume 3 The Harvard Classics, vol. 3

~~Volume 4 The Harvard Classics Volume 4~~ January 2015

Volume 5 Harvard Classics Volume 5: Essays and English Traits

Volume 6 Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Volume 7 The Confessions/The Imitation of Christ

Volume 8 Nine Greek Dramas

NINE GREEK DRAMAS
Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, and Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus
Oedipus the King and Antigone, by Sophocles
Hippolytus and The Bacchae, by Euripides
The Frogs, by Aristophanes

Volume 9 Harvard Classics Volume 9: Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

Volume 10 Harvard Classics Volume 10: Wealth of Nations

Volume 11 Origin of Species

Volume 12 Plutarch's Lives: V12 Harvard Classics

Volume 13 The Harvard Classics - Virgil's AEneid, Volume 13

~~Volume 14 Don Quixote of the Mancha~~ November 2015

Volume 15 Harvard Classics, Volume 15: Pilgrim's Progress, Donne and Herbert

Volume 16 Stories from The Thousand and One Nights

Volume 17 Harvard Classics Volume 17: Folklore and Fable
Volume 17 contains:
82 of Aesop's Fables
41 of the Household Tales from the Brothers Grimm
20 Tales from Hans Christian Andersen

Volume 18Harvard Classics Volume 18: Modern English Drama

Volume 19 Harvard Classics Volume 19: Faust, Egmont, Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe

Volume 20 Harvard Classics Vol. 20 The Divine Comedy

Volume 21 Harvard Classics, Vol. 21: I Promessi Sposi

Volume 22 The Odyssey

Volume 23 Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After

Volume 24 The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume IX: The Revolutionary War, 1794-1797, and Ireland

Volume 25 Harvard Classics Volume 25: Autobiography, Etc., Essays And Addresses, J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle

Volume 26 Harvard Classics Volume 26: Continental Drama
Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA
Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
Phèdre, by Jean Racine
Tartuffe, by Molière
Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
William Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller

Volume 27 Harvard Classics Volume 27: English Essays

Volume 28 Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays English and American

Volume 29 Voyage of the Beagle: Part 29 Harvard Classics

Volume 30 Harvard Classics Volume 30: Scientific Papers

The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday
On the Conservation of Force and Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann von Helmholtz
The Wave Theory of Light and The Tides, by Lord Kelvin
The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb
Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie

Volume 31 Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Volumne 32 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Montaigne and What is a Classic?, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan
The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich von Schiller
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant
Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini

Volume 33 Harvard Classics, Voyages and Travels (Volume 33); Ancient and Modern
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS
An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus
Germany, by Tacitus
Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols
Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty
Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies
The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh

Volume 34 Harvard Classics Volume 34: French and English Philosophers
FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES
Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
On the Inequality among Mankind and Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

Volume 35 Harvard Classics Volume 35: The Chronicles and Romance of Jean Froissart, The Holy Grail, and A Description of Elizabethan England
CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD
Chronicles, by Jean Froissart
The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory
A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison

Volume 36 Harvard Classics Volume 36: Machiavelli, More, Luther
MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER
The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Ninety-Five Theses, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, and On the Freedom of a Christian, by Martin Luther

Volume 37 Harvard Classics Volume 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME
Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume

Volume 38 The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers
HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR
The Oath of Hippocrates
Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
Scientific papers, by Louis Pasteur
Scientific papers, by Charles Lyell

Volume 39
Vol. 39. PREFACES AND PROLOGUES
Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY
Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD
Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN
Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1
Confucian: The sayings of Confucius
Hebrew: Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes
Christian I: Luke and Acts
Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2
Christian II: Corinthians I and II and hymns
Buddhist: Writings
Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran
Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1
Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2
The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker
The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger
Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL
Thoughts, letters, and minor works, by Blaise Pascal
Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
Vol. 50. INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES
Vol. 51. LECTURES
The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields: history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, travelogues, and religion.
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction Edit
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also features an index to Criticisms and Interpretations.

Vol. 1. HENRY FIELDING 1
The History of Tom Jones, part 1, by Henry Fielding
Vol. 2. HENRY FIELDING 2
The History of Tom Jones, part 2, by Henry Fielding
Vol. 3. LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN
A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Vol. 4. SIR WALTER SCOTT
Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
Vol. 5. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1
~~Vanity Fair, part 1, by William Makepeace Thackeray~~
Vol. 6. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 2
~~Vanity Fair, part 2, by William Makepeace Thackeray~~ 2008
Vol. 7. CHARLES DICKENS 1
David Copperfield, part 1, by Charles Dickens
Vol. 8. CHARLES DICKENS 2
David Copperfield, part 2, by Charles Dickens
Vol. 9. GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
Vol. 10. HAWTHORNE, IRVING, POE, BRET HARTE, MARK TWAIN, HALE
The Scarlet Letter and "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", by Washington Irving
"Eleonora", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Purloined Letter", by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Luck of Roaring Camp", "The Outcasts of Poker Flat", and "The Idyl of Red Gulch", by Francis Bret Harte
"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog", by Samuel L. Clemens
"The Man Without a Country", by Edward Everett Hale
Vol. 11. HENRY JAMES, JR.
~~The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James~~2009
Vol. 12. VICTOR HUGO
~~Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo~~ 2002
Vol. 13. BALZAC, SAND, DE MUSSET, DAUDET, DE MAUPASSANT
~~Old Goriot, by Honoré Balzac~~ 2014
The Devil's Pool, by George Sand
The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset
"The Siege of Berlin", "The Last Class—The Story of a Little Alsatian", "The Child Spy", "The Game of Billiards", and "The Bad Zouave", by Alphonse Daudet
"Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure" and "Two Friends", by Guy de Maupassant
Vol. 14. JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
~~Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe~~ 2014
Vol. 15. GOETHE, KELLER, STORM, FONTANE
The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller
The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm
Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane
Vol. 16. LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 1
~~Anna Karenina, part 1, by Leo Tolstoy~~
Vol. 17. LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 2
~~Anna Karenina, part 2,~~ and Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy
Vol. 18. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
~~Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky~~
Vol. 19. IVAN TURGENEV
~~A House of Gentlefolk and Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev~~ November 2015
Vol. 20. VALERA, BJØRNSON, KIELLAND
Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera
A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland

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Dec 23, 2015 11:42AM

A list of classic fairytale books

This volume is designed for ease of use on the Nook, including an active Table of Contents, and contains the following works:

* Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch
* The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens
* The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths, by Padraic Colum
* Aesop's Fables
* Grimms' Fairy Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
* Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
* The Arabian Nights, by Andrew Lang
* The Blue Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Brown Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Crimson Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Green Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Grey Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Lilac Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Olive Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Orange Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Pink Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Red Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Violet Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* The Yellow Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
* Czechoslovak Fairy Tales, by Parker Filmore
* Indian Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs
* Irish Fairy Tales, by William Butler Yeats
* Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki
* Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends, by Gertrude Landa
* Russian Fairy Tales, by Robert Nisbet Bain (less)

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message 21: by Cosmic (last edited Jan 02, 2016 02:46PM) (new)

Jan 01, 2016 03:43AM

Around the world challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

Greece: Odyssey
Ireland: Ulysses
London: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

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message 22: by Megan (new)

Jan 09, 2016 11:01AM

Good luck with all your challenges!

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message 23: by Cosmic (new)

Jan 09, 2016 02:06PM

Health Books i would love to read

Lick the Sugar Habit
The Colon Book by Walker
Your Body's Many Cries For Water
Effortless Healing: 9 Simple Ways to Sidestep Illness, Shed Excess Weight, and Help Your Body Fix Itself

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message 24: by Cosmic (last edited Jan 30, 2016 12:21PM) (new)

Jan 27, 2016 07:22PM

January
The Telmachiad
Jan 16-29 (2 weeks): free reading of the Telemachiad section (Episodes 1-3; Telemachus, Nestor and Proteus) (35 pgs).

Discussion of Episode 1 (Telemachus) could probably start 4-5 days into the read (Jan 20th or thereabouts), with discussions progressing naturally into the other episodes over the 2 weeks.

Telemachus 45 January 4
Haines is a jew condemning another jew, German Jews.
I think Leopold may be named after this guy

Superman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Casement Report was a document of 1904 written by the Irish diplomat Roger Casement (1864–1916), detailing abuses in the Congo Free State which was under the private ownership of King Leopold II of Belgium. This report was instrumental in Leopold finally relinquishing his private holdings in Africa. Leopold had had ownership of the Congolese state since 1885, granted to him by the Berlin Conference, in which he exploited its natural resources (mostly rubber) for his own private wealth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger...

Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honored in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru. He then made efforts during World War I to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising which sought to gain Irish independence.

What I think I'd interesting about this is that Haines, who is Jewish talks about the Jews in Germany being against Britain.

The usurper

Nester 32 January 9
History a fable
Our land. Is a pawn shop

Riddle to be woven on the churches loom

Sums = Futility
Mother saved him from being trampled under foot
Shakespeare ghost hamlets father
His strong hold for the gold
Savings box symbols of beauty and symbols of greed and power
Three nooses
Money is power. Shakespeare says out money in your purse.
Pride of the English ....the sea, the east coast trading company
Be just. I fear those words that make us unhappy. Out of Darkness

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croppy
Rebels = justice = skulls on a stake.
War give you the right to steal
Hermes= gambling, horse races (war) dice. Mercury hat.
Foot and Mouth Disease
Harlots cry from street to street.
Merchant one that sells high buys cheap.
History is a nightmare that i am trying to awake
A cry from the street is god.

Proteus 48 January 9

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus

Some who ascribe to him a specific domain call him the god of "elusive sea change", which suggests the constantly changing nature of the sea or the liquid quality of water in general. He can foretell the future, but, in a mytheme familiar to several cultures, will change his shape to avoid having to; he will answer only to someone who is capable of capturing the beast. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, with the general meaning of "versatile", "mutable", "capable of assuming many forms". "Protean" has positive connotations of flexibility, versatility and adaptability.

Sell your soul for that, do, dyed rags pinned round a squaw. ( it was the
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativ...
Disease as a weapon against Native Americans Edit

"You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians, by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." — Jeffery Amherst[9]

Out of our regard to them we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect."

William Trent, William Trent's Journal at Fort Pitt
This event is well known for the documented instances of biological warfare. British officers, including the top British commanding generals, ordered, sanctioned, paid for and conducted the use of smallpox against the Native Americans. As described by one historian, "there is no doubt that British military authorities approved of attempts to spread smallpox among the enemy", and "it was deliberate British policy to infect the indians with smallpox".[10]

He stared at them proudly, piled stone mammoth skulls. Gold light on sea, on sand, on boulders. The sun is there, the slender trees, the lemon houses.

Weak wasting hand on mine. They have forgotten Kevin Egan, not he them. Remembering thee, O Sion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierc...
Green eyes, I see you. Fang, I feel. Lascivious people.

THE JOYCE PROJECT
http://joyceproject.com/
Joyce's Ulysses
Cross and Magic mirrors
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

CROSSROADS OR CROSS
Hecate -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecate
and Hermes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes

Crossroads are a natural liminal space, interaction with otherworldly forces and spirits are heightened - hence "pacts made with the Divil"
The crossroads is usually where the Guardian of the Gate, as such, sits. The Devil fulfills a similar role in testing and presenting a choice to those he "meets" at the crossroads, only instead of opening the gate to the otherworld, he opens it to Hell
Its well documented that crossroads can be haunted places. Crossroads were places to bury criminals and suicide victims, its said the crossed roads confused the 'spirits' of the departed and stopped them returning to haunt the dead.
Interesting that you say the Devil opens the door to Hell. In my own opinion Hell is the place of realization of a part of the psyche that is hidden within. It is, in my mind, the coming to the realization that a juxter positioned self is within one and is able to manifest it's self upon our mundane self. Its attributes may run counter to the morals that one holds and thus cause a hatred or self loathing in part for ourself.
http://www.traditionalwitch.net/forum...

Yellow robe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catha...

Yes, if I recall correctly, Deasy's speech to Stephen reminded me of Polonius' advice to Laertes.

And here's Polonius' text...

Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! 55
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay’d for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 60
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. Beware 65
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 70
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 75
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 80
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gover...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish...

Influenced by:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8...

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message 25: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:36PM) (new)

Mar 08, 2016 03:35PM

DISLOCATING ULYSSES
http://web.uvic.ca/~achris/zaxis/inde...

~~Feb 27-Mar4: Episode 9 (Scylla & Charybdis) (25 pgs)~~
March 2

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message 26: by Cassandra (new)

Mar 09, 2016 12:47PM

Good luck with your challenges! It looks like you have a lot of fun things planned.

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message 27: by Cosmic (new)

Mar 09, 2016 05:06PM

Thank you!

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message 28: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:37PM) (new)

Mar 18, 2016 06:54AM

"Throb always without you and the throb always within."

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message 29: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:38PM) (new)

Mar 18, 2016 07:09AM

Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy, the two barmaids, are for the most part referred to as "Bronze" and "Gold," respectively;

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message 30: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:40PM) (new)

Apr 08, 2016 09:27AM

Ulysses Buddy Read:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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message 31: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:41PM) (new)

May 11, 2016 03:16PM

May:Circe
In 1904 the world crash began to appear on the horizon.

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message 32: by Cosmic (new)

May 24, 2016 05:55PM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1881

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message 33: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:43PM) (new)

May 27, 2016 06:50PM

British involvement
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadi...

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message 34: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:44PM) (new)

Jun 05, 2016 04:12PM

June

Paradoxes seem to define the life and career of Edward Alexander (Aleister) Crowley

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message 35: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:50PM) (new)

Jun 20, 2016 12:37AM

IODINE

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message 36: by Cosmic (last edited Jun 20, 2016 01:24AM) (new)

Jun 20, 2016 01:23AM

Enchanted Shawl

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/libra...

I’ve combined elements of water, earth and trees in this shawl knit with Kettle Tweed and Crock-O-Dye. You can use 2 hanks of either yarn or 1 of each in high or low contrasting colors. Shown is Kettle Tweed in #4435 Bamboo and Crock-O-Dye #564 Teal.

The lace border is knit first, sideways following a very simple chart. The main body of the shawl is then picked up along the long edge and filled in with bands of motifs and short rows.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/4281235...

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message 37: by Cosmic (new)

Jun 20, 2016 01:26AM

Leadership Strategy

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...

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message 38: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:53PM) (new)

Jul 16, 2016 11:08PM

The Scarlet Letter

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message 39: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:54PM) (new)

Jul 26, 2016 09:54AM

I have been reading

""But we shall live to see the day, I trust," went on the artist, "when no man shall build his house for posterity.

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message 40: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:56PM) (new)

Jul 27, 2016 08:31AM

I am on chapter 17 again.

"Despite all that I have written I am not really sure how they relate to each other or to what Nathaniel Hawthorne was trying to say. I haven't read any summaries, because I don't want them to prejudice me. ReaR
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message 41: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 09:57PM) (new)

Jul 27, 2016 09:02AM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charl...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charl...
Fourier characterized poverty (not inequality) as the principal cause of disorder in society, and he proposed to eradicate it by sufficiently high wages and by a "decent minimum" for those who were not able to work.[12] Fourier used the word civilization in a negative sense and as such "Fourier's contempt for the respectable thinkers and ideologies of his age was so intense that he always used the terms philosopher and civilization in a pejorative sense. In his lexicon civilization was a depraved order, a synonym for perfidy and constraint...Fourier's attack on civilization had qualities not to be found in the writing of any other social critic of his time."[13]

Fourier was also a supporter of women's rights in a time period when influences like Jean-Jacques Rousseau were prevalent. Fourier believed that all important jobs should be open to women on the basis of skill and aptitude rather than closed on account of gender. He spoke of women as individuals, not as half the human couple. Fourier saw that "traditional" marriage could potentially hurt woman's rights as human beings and thus never married.[16] Writing before the advent of the term 'homosexuality', Fourier held that both men and women have a wide range of sexual needs and preferences which may change throughout their lives, including same-sex sexuality and androgénité. He argued that all sexual expressions should be enjoyed as long as people are not abused, and that "affirming one's difference" can actually enhance social integration.[17]

Fourier's concern was to liberate every human individual, man, woman, and child, in two senses: Education and the liberation of human passion.[18]

Nathaniel Hawthorne in chapter 7 of his novel The Blithedale Romance gently mocks Fourier saying
"When, as a consequence of human improvement", said I, "the globe shall arrive at its final perfection, the great ocean is to be converted into a particular kind of lemonade, such as was fashionable at Paris in Fourier's time. He calls it limonade a cedre. It is positively a fact! Just imagine the city docks filled, every day, with a flood tide of this delectable beverage!" (hide spoiler)]

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message 42: by Cosmic (new)

Jul 27, 2016 07:24PM

The "Worship of Silence" is Carlyle's name for the sacred respect for restraint in speech till "thought has silently matured itself, …to hold one's tongue till some meaning lie behind to set it wagging," a doctrine which many misunderstand, almost wilfully, it would seem; silence being to him the very womb out of which all great things are born.

This is what we see in Clifford. I think the judge being dead made him come to life.

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Jul 28, 2016 08:11AM

One object, above all others, would take root in the imaginative observer's memory. It was the great tuft of flowers,—weeds, you would have called them, only a week ago,—the tuft of crimson-spotted flowers, in the angle between the two front gables. The old people used to give them the name of Alice's Posies, in remembrance of fair Alice Pyncheon, who was believed to have brought their seeds from Italy. They were flaunting in rich beauty and full bloom to-day, and seemed, as it were, a mystic expression that something within the house was consummated.

http://www.theknightstemplar.org/hist...

In 1095 when Pope Urban II issued the call for the First Crusade, the Western Christian World saw this as a defensive action. Since the early 8th century, Europe had been under ceaseless attacks from Islamic forces beginning with the Iberian Peninsula. Not only was most of Christian Spain conquered, but Islamic armies penetrated into the heart of France, only to be halted by Charles Martel in 732. Still, Islamic forces continued to threaten Europe, occupying Sicily, most of Southern Italy, and even besieging Rome in 846 and sacking St. Peter’s Basilica. Yet the First Crusade was not directed at Islam itself, but against the Seljuk Turks, who in their conquest of Palestine replaced the previous Arab tolerance of Christian pilgrims with intolerance and violence. By the end of July 1099, the First Crusade had achieved its objective of restoring the Holy Places to Christian control.

Little is known about what became of the Templar’s fleet of ships. There is record of 18 Templar ships being in port at La Rochelle, France on October 12, 1307 (the day before Friday the 13th). But the next day, the fleet had vanished. Interestingly, two Templars had survived the fall of Acre. In about 1340, they were discovered, married with families and serving a Sultan in Palestine. They were repatriated, provided with pensions, and received with great honor by the papal court. But a secret line of Grand Masters may have continued as recorded in the Larmenius Charter. Referred to as the “Brotherhood.”

Restoration of the Order, 1700-

Thus the Templars may have survived as an underground order after 1314, both on the continent of Europe and in Scotland. The Order came into semi-public view in Versailles, France in 1705, when a Convent General of the Order elected Philippe, Duke of Orleans, later Regent of France, to the Grand Mastership of the Order.

In 1736 Andrew Michael Ramsay, a Scottish Freemason and Catholic, delivered a speech to the Masonic Lodge in Paris, insisting that Freemasonry had begun in Palestine among the crusades, particularly the military orders. The result was a frenzy of new rituals, symbols, and myths based on the Crusades and the military orders. When the battle of Culloden in 1746 ended any hope of a Stuart restoration, French Freemasonry began to develop its own identity. Now a German noble and Freemason, the Baron Karl von Hund, revealed his belief that he had discovered a new form of Freemasonry, known as the Strict Observance, directly descendant from the Templars. It was based on Templar survival in the British Isles, particularly in Scotland. This belief in Templar survival became very popular among various Masonic lodges. Meanwhile, continental lodges were being influenced by the rationalism of the Enlightenment with many members becoming supporters of revolutionary change directed against absolute monarchy and a social order based on birth and privilege. Then came the French Revolution in 1789, with its promise of a New Order founded on brotherhood, equality and liberty.

fabre-palaprat
Dr. Fabre-Palaprat

Out of the turmoil created by the Revolution, a “child of the Revolution”, Napoleon Bonaparte, rose to power, promising to spread the ideals of the Revolution to all of Europe. After conquering most of continental Europe, he had himself proclaimed Emperor. In that same year of 1804, the restored Ordre du Temple (Order of the Temple) was founded by Dr. Fabre-Palaprat, a chiropodist, Ledru, a medical Doctor, Claude-Mathieu, and Radix de Chevillon. Fabre-Palaprat accepted the office of Grand Master.

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It was one thing to conquer; now the challenge was to rule. Immediately two problems confronted the newly created Kingdom of Jerusalem, being one of the worst examples of feudal fragmentation. The vassals of the King of Jerusalem were carving out their own feudal estates and becoming more powerful than their feudal lord. They were even engaging in conflict among themselves, often hindering efforts to counter any renewed threat from Islam. The second problem was the lack of a reliable fighting force to defend the conquest. Once the Crusade was finished, most of the surviving crusaders, having fulfilled their vows, returned home. The Knights Templar would provide the solution by becoming the first international standing army.

http://www.catholic.com/magazine/arti...

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message 44: by Cosmic (last edited Mar 13, 2021 10:00PM) (new)

Jul 29, 2016 04:39PM

I have been listening to
https://rosicrucian.org/podcast/about...

This talked about mummification and karma and the soul.
At the end there is quotes to meditate on. One is by Kant, and one by Somosa. More relevant to The Catcher

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Jul 31, 2016 08:35PM