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+ | ===== My Favorite Books and Stories ===== | ||
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+ | //Limbo// by Bernard Wolfe | ||
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+ | This book may be hard to find, but is worth the hunt. Originally published in 1952. Set in 1990. I am not sure what to say about this one - it had and continues to have quite an effect on me. (Of course that may just be because I had been told I "would never walk | ||
+ | again" and now I spend most of the day with a computer strapped to my side, I don't know...) If you have read it and want to discuss it, let me know! | ||
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+ | This book is now available as a public domanain e-text from [[gopher:// | ||
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+ | //The Art of Memory// by Frances Yates | ||
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+ | This book changed my way of viewing the world; let it do the same for you. Vassar Library has it, Barnes and Noble sells it, RFB has taped it. Here is the info from the Vassar Library Catalogue: | ||
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+ | Learn how to breathe | ||
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+ | Be careful, there are several translations out there, some of with have goals of their own; read a few, then decide. A good one to start with is in Volume One of // | ||
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+ | TITLE Understanding Jewish mysticism : a source reader | ||
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+ | [2] The philosophic-mystical tradition and the hasidic tradition. | ||
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+ | ADD NA/TI Blumenthal, David R. | ||
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+ | Once you have worked with it for a while, do yourself a favor and check out the Aryeh Kaplan' | ||
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+ | //The Seven Beggers //by Nachman of Bratislav | ||
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+ | Zalman Schacter-Shalomi telling the tale, but there are many translations in print. Look for collections of R. Nahman' | ||
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+ | TITLE Beggars and prayers : Adin Steinsaltz retells the tales of Rabbi | ||
+ | Nachman of Bratslav ; translated by Yehuda Hanegbi ...[et al.] | ||
+ | ; edited by Jonathan Omer-Man. | ||
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+ | ADD NA/TI Nahman, of Bratslav, 1772-1811. | ||
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+ | This page was writen using emacs 19.19 and psgml mode with an htmlplus dtd, then converted to HTML2, later to HTML3.2. and finaly to dokuwiki format with html2wiki. | ||
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+ | [[contact|Greg Priest-Dorman]] | ||
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