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"Through clouded eyes we glimpse the cliffs that loom over yon distant shores. The waves they break with giant’s strength and boom like oaken castle doors. Lightning threatens from above while frenzied sharks await below. Danger it is all about. In every element lurks a foe. Creation. Destruction. Birth and Death. The same. The same. The same. Fire melts the eternal ice, which transformed, douses the flame. Onward we sail, toward those cliffs, determined to reach the beckoning shore. And on landing make what our fathers made—glorious art and glorious war. Thus read the final lines of The Lay of Hadding, the anonymously penned late 19th century poem that later stirred a generation of young writers (including W.B. Yeats and Wyndham Lewis), and the inspiration for the stories presented in Men·Art·War. From the Egyptian deserts to the green fields of Gaul to the small towns of North Carolina; from 332 B.C.E. to eleven years after tomorrow; here are ten rousing tales of art and war, and the men who wage both." |
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This week's (w/c 10/10/2011) reading to complete is: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (3 Vols.) Israel Jacob Yuval's 'Two Nations in your Womb' Isaac Deutscher's 'Stalin' Vladimir Naumov and Jonathan Brent's 'Stalin's Last Crime' Helge Ingstad's 'Westward to Vinland' & 'Land under the Pole Star' Excluding journals and periodicals etc. |
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Ghosts of November (about Jonestown)
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I picked up a bunch of Penguin Classics for .50 cents. Finished Plutrarch's "The Age of Alexander" two years ago. Still have Quintus Curtus Rufus' "The Age of Alexander" to read. Will make a note to finish Plutarch's "Parallel Lives" of the Greeks and Romans.
On "The Age of Alexander" I was amazed at how easy it was to identify these ancient Greeks and how similar their thought process was to ours. Just finished "The Last Days of the Romanovs" by Robert Wilton. Don't claim to be a heavy duty reader like you guys though. |
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Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey.
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The Archeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry, by R. Ewart Oakeshott.
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Sorry, Karl; I should've specified Parallel Lives, Volume I (II's on the back-burner).
I buy most of my classics and epics from The Modern Library and Everyman's Library. For new cloth-covered books it's hard to beat their prices. I plan on reading Moralia, also by Plutarch, at the next opportunity.
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If it's any comfort to you, you and I are not alone in our appreciation of Plutarch. Late greats such as Emerson, Boswell, Jonson, Milton, Bacon (Francis), Browning, and none other than The Bard himself -- to name but a few -- were much in awe of the man and in fact borrowed heavily from him. Among the ancient Greeks and Romans, I personally find him more interesting than epicists such as Homer or Virgil, or for that matter, historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Too bad Plutarch and other great ancients are so under-appreciated -- if appreciated at all -- in modern-day society. Then again, with authors such as Danielle Steele and Dean Koontz topping the New York Times bestseller list every other week, who the hell's got time to read works by those irrelevant, oh-so-boring DWMs?
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"The Wood Beyond the World". My copy is great. I found it in a second hand bookstore for I think three dollars or so, and it's an exact replica of the 1894 copy, right down to the font and offset printing. Looks just like this:
I recommend Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror, the Calamitous 14th Century". Wow, that book was amazing! I devoured it. It was exactly like traveling back in time to our ancestors' world. It's non fiction, btw. I especially enjoy the part about angry peasants on a fiefdom roasting their greedy landlord on a spit while his wife and children were forced to watch. And the idiot aristocrat who threw a party where everyone soaked themselves in torch fuel. He made it known to his servants that there were to be no torches in the hall lit at this time, so it was dark. Of course, one servant didn't get the message and lit up a torch to look for the teenager in the dark hall and succeeded in lighting half the group on fire. It's an excellent book full of all kinds of stuff you forgot or never knew about Europe and the daily lives of the people. From the most mundane to the jaw dropping. Each page is full of spellbinding detail. Fascinating stuff.
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Read Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich over the weekend. (The Amereon House edition is a mere 134 pages -- 34 of them introduction -- so you can actually knock it out in one sitting if you have a mind to.) Excellent little read; highly recommended.
And speaking of introductions, in Richard Blythe's intro to the book I come to find that that Leo wasn't exactly a lion; he had a very inordinate fear of dying. He was so obsessed with the prospect in fact, that many of his contemporaries -- Gorky most notably -- were "disgusted" with his preoccupation with death; thought it "egotistical" of a man to be so overly concerned with his own mortality. Blythe says that Tolstoy was almost driven to the point of insanity with his fear of what would one day claim us all.
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This week:
Otto Rahn's 'Crusade against the Grail' and 'Lucifer's Court' Arthur Penty's 'Post Industialism' Richard Cavendish's 'King Arthur & the Grail' Moses Luzzatto's 'Mesillat Yesharim' (- 'The Path of the Upright') |
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