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* fs/ DUMAS' THE THREE MUSKETEERS - First Edition, 1894 - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Nabokov, _Pale Fire_ (with clueless introduction by Richard Rorty) - 1
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* God & Morality - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE) - 2
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* Is poet Kaye Starbird alive? (Born in 1916) - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Terry Pratchett review - 1 messages, 1 author
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* OBAMA GUILTY of BEING PRESIDENT WHILE BLACK - Released by BOOK EXPRESS - 2
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TOPIC: fs/ DUMAS' THE THREE MUSKETEERS - First Edition, 1894
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/b77f2407e1fcbea1?hl=en
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Date: Mon, Sep 28 2009 9:29 pm
From: "ventureman3"
First Crowell (NY) Edition in Two Volumes, 1894. Complete photos and details
for this direct sale are found on Rare Book Consignments:
http://www.RareBookConsign.com/threemusketeers1894/
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TOPIC: Nabokov, _Pale Fire_ (with clueless introduction by Richard Rorty)
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/a6f62aaf4e5f858b?hl=en
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Date: Tues, Sep 29 2009 12:23 am
From: The Other
John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> writes:
> "Pale Fire" is notoriously a figure/ground puzzle in words. Whether
> you insist that it's a vase, or that it's two faces, you're wrong.
Could you explain that to me? I don't follow. I know those old
figure-ground puzzles, but in PF, what's the vase and what's the two
faces?
Again, PF was undeniably a moralistic novel (Rorty did get that part
right in his intro), and I was interested in that moralistic aspect
partly because it is - or seems - accessible without following all
those word games, references to obscure 17th-century English poets,
etc. I found PF's morality pretty unambiguous, but that could have
been my own careless reading.
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TOPIC: God & Morality
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/5a4b9fc8e8ae86dd?hl=en
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Date: Tues, Sep 29 2009 12:33 am
From: The Other
"Francis A. Miniter" <faminiter@comcast.net> writes:
> I was just looking at "God: A Biography" by Miles Jack earlier today.
> He maintains that God as portrayed in the Hebrew Bible is a
> personality filled with contradictions and ambiguities.
I haven't read that book, but Jack Miles has some interesting things
to say. That point about the contradictions and ambiguities is a
truism that's been around for centuries, though.
One interesting thing he said somewhere was about Jesus' "turn the
other cheek". Specifically, Jesus said that if someone hits you on
the right cheek, turn the other cheek also. Miles noted that if the
aggressor is right-handed (a reasonably safe assumption for those
days), then it would have been natural to strike you on the right
cheek only if he was striking you with the back of his hand. Both the
back-handed slap and your turning the other cheek take on a whole
different meaning than if it were an open-handed slap. Your turning
the other cheek is not a gesture of submission, but of nonviolent
defiance.
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TOPIC: Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/92153a6882249799?hl=en
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Date: Tues, Sep 29 2009 4:35 am
From: Walter Bushell
In article <AeCdndEMadweb13XnZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Stanley Moore" <smoore20@comcast.net> wrote:
> I am in Houston which I agree is "South" and Texas was part of the
> Confederacy so by definition is South. Dallas on the other hand thinks it is
> western but it lies to the east of the real West. In reality the next city
> to the west of Dallas is Fort Worth which is the site of a army fort founded
> in 1849, one of a series to mark the western frontier. Fort Worth (where I
> was born) sometimes styles itself "Where the West Begins". So Dallas
> shouldn't call itself :western". Take care
Do the eastern and western sections of Fort Worth dispute at which
north--south street the border to the West lies?
--
A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
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Date: Tues, Sep 29 2009 7:55 pm
From: Evelyn Leeper
J wrote:
> Talk about "thread drift"...
Which also means I have to read all this stuff in case someone actually
has a useful update....
--
Evelyn C. Leeper
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods
when I nod; my shadow does that much better. -Plutarch
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TOPIC: Is poet Kaye Starbird alive? (Born in 1916)
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/8e1564475bbfdf6a?hl=en
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Date: Tues, Sep 29 2009 6:51 am
From: Lenona
I can't find any biographical information about her from the last 30
years, but one book jacket - from 1979 - gives her address as Fort
Lauderdale. (She's lived all over the States.)
She's written six books. The last one - "Grandmother Goose's Recycled
Rhymes," was published in 1988.
In "Don't Ever Cross a Crocodile," there's a poem about a little girl
and her friend, who reads too much. Last two stanzas:
The second time I went to play,
I thought we'd see some sights,
But Maisie sat around all day
And read "King Arthur's Knights."
And later on I had to hear
About some queen named Guinevere
Who loved a knight named Lancelot
A guy who took a chance a lot
And got into a jam a lot
Around a place called Camelot.
I'm here to tell you no one needs
A friend who either talks or reads;
So this I'd really like to say:
Unless you like to waste the day,
Then lie and yawn
Till nearly dawn
When all your thoughts are hazy...
Take my advice
And just think twice
Before you visit Maisie.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/tony.htm
(a pretty funny and witty poem about a 4-year-old too smart in school
for his own good)
http://www.brownielocks.com/kidpoems.html
(more than halfway down is her poem on oysters - this site includes
Ogden Nash & Shel Silverstein and it's called "Funny, Dumb, Silly Kid
(Children's) Poems about Food.")
And, "The Hound":
It's funny to look at a hurrying hound,
Pursuing a scent that's attractive.
He gallops around
With his nose to the ground
And only the back of him active.
Lenona.
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TOPIC: Terry Pratchett review
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/fd9699b394d54c4c?hl=en
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Date: Tues, Sep 29 2009 1:18 pm
From: Gabriel
Hi everyone,
I've started posting reviews of Discworld novels (among others) on my
page at
http://hubpages.com/profile/Dark+knight+rides
I'd be grateful if some of the members here would take a look and give
me some feedback on improving my reviews. I've tried to start at the
beginning with The Colour of Magic and have worked up to Witches
Abroad. I know you all have plenty of opinions [Smile] and I'd love to
hear some of them.
Thanks all,
Gabriel
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TOPIC: OBAMA GUILTY of BEING PRESIDENT WHILE BLACK - Released by BOOK EXPRESS
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/2b7467125692687c?hl=en
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Date: Tues, Sep 29 2009 5:50 pm
From: dtpollard
BOOK EXPRESS Publishing released OBAMA GUILTY of BEING PRESIDENT WHILE
BLACK by ESSENCE® best selling author D T Pollard. This book is an
examination of how racism has played a role in the treatment of the
first African American President of the United States.
Press Release:
http://www.prlog.org/10356107-obama-guilty-of-being-president-while-black-released-by-book-express-publishing.htm
Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBF62HOjHvI
Website: http://www.dtpollard.com/
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Date: Tues, Sep 29 2009 6:36 pm
From: Stratum101
On Sep 29, 7:50 pm, dtpollard <dtp...@aol.com> wrote:
> BOOK EXPRESS Publishing released OBAMA GUILTY of BEING PRESIDENT WHILE
> BLACK by ESSENCE® best selling author D T Pollard. This book is an
> examination of how racism has played a role in the treatment of the
> first African American President of the United States.
>
> Press Release:http://www.prlog.org/10356107-obama-guilty-of-being-president-while-b...
>
> Book Trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBF62HOjHvI
>
> Website:http://www.dtpollard.com/
Obama might be the victim of racism. I see the author
lives around here (Dallas) where I occasionaly run into
residual redneck attitudes that existed when I lived
here for a few years, many years ago.
While engaged in a research project at the main
branch of the Dallas Public Library several weeks
ago, I took a lunch break where I was joined by
another library patron who informed me that
Dallas city schools were in trouble
because of "all the blacks." Her purpose
for being at the library was doing
genealogical research to establish
her eligibility to join the Daughters of
the Confederacy.
And that was about all I cared to know
about her.
--
On TV in my left ear, Ferde Grofe, a Los Angeles
boy, is visiting the Grand Canyon for the first
time where he's getting ideas.
He has already distinguished himself
by orchestrating Gershwin's
"Rhapsody in Blue" for the upcoming
Whiteman concert at Aeolian Hall.
(Several years later, when GG writes
"American in Paris," he'll do his
own orchestration, thank you.)
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