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TIME does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!

There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Roots of Today's Science Fiction Go Back Centuries

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:41:03 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: Much more of the website,

Clip Source: io9.com

Science Fiction came of age in the 19th Century under the talents of writers like Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells. But before these authors stands a long history of proto-science fiction tales, replete with voyages to the moon, socially and technologically advanced civilizations, and visions of the future. We've delved into our scifi roots and found some of the surprisingly forward-looking works from poets, mathematicians, politicians, and philosophers that predate the year 1800.

Lucian of Samosata – A True History (2nd Centure CE):

his rousing tale of a trip to the moon, aliens armies, man-made men, and extraplanetary colonization is frequently recognized as the first known space opera.

Ibn al-Nafis – Theologus Autodidactus (c. 1270):

Thomas More – Utopia (1515):

Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis (1626):

Johannes Kepler – Somnium (The Dream) (1634):

Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (1726):

Voltaire – Micromegas (1752):

Tags: science fiction, sci-fi, history, literature

Kundalini, The Mother of the Universe

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:32:01 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: An interesting book from Sacred-Texts.com. Especially those who are into yoga and Kundalini discipline would love to browse it.

Clip Source: www.sacred-texts.com

Kundalini, The Mother of the Universe

by Rishi Singh Gherwal

Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped]

This little self-published work could be most charitably described as an anthology of material on Kundalini Yoga. Very little of this book was actually written by Gherwal; the majority of the material here consists of long quotes from other authors, notably Arthur Avalon.

Tags: hinduism, kundalini, goddess, yoga, culture, india

Books you should read before you die

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:28:54 GMT

clipped by: Brimstone
clipper's remarks: Most of the books on the list I have not heard of.
Like most lists, and most people, they have different perspectives. I'm glad to see that Haruki Murakami has several books on the list. Though i do believe that his new novel After Dark and his short stories are better that his popular Kafka

Currently I'm reading a Robert Ludlum (The Matarese Countdown), cant say that I'm that impressed.

What are you reading? And is it worth reading.

Clip Source: www.listology.com

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Saturday – Ian McEwan

On Beauty – Zadie Smith

Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee

Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson

The Sea – John Banville

The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble

The Plot Against America – Philip Roth

The Master – Colm Tóibín

Vanishing Point – David Markson

The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd

Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Colour – Rose Tremain

Thursbitch – Alan Garner

The Light of Day – Graham Swift

What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

Islands – Dan Sleigh

Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee

London Orbital – Iain Sinclair

Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry

Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

The Double – José Saramago

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

Unless – Carol Shields

Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami

The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor

That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern

Read Print-Free Online Library

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:34:14 GMT

clipped by: carrerinyes
clipper's remarks: A large selection at the site.

Clip Source: www.readprint.com

A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index. If you need help with something, feel free to drop us a line.

Bookmark us for future reference and use Amazon coupons to save money on textbooks!

The Invisible Man
The Wealth of Nations
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Animal Farm

1984
Paradise Lost
The Origin of Species
The Canterbury Tales
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Jane Eyre
Peter Pan
Pride and Prejudice
Inferno
Roughing It

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Yeats, William Butler

Lawrence, D.H.

Lamb, Charles

Love after Love

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:00:08 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.poemhunter.com

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott

Tags: poetry, walcott

What is the power of things we hold dear?

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:15:47 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: "In the interest of enriching these connections, Turkle pairs each autobiographical essay with a text from philosophy, history, literature, or theory, creating juxtapositions at once playful and profound."

Clip Source: mitpress.mit.edu

Evocative Objects

Things We Think With

For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas.

This volume's special contribution is its focus on everyday riches: the simplest of objects--an apple, a datebook, a laptop computer--are shown to bring philosophy down to earth. The poet contends, "No ideas but in things." The notion of evocative objects goes further: objects carry both ideas and passions. In our relations to things, thought and feeling are inseparable.

Emily Dickinson's Friend and Mentor

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:02:25 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Fascinating (to me).

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Gnomic and subversive, her poems are shots of triple-distilled whiskey that jolt going down, then radiate, leaving us wide-eyed and slightly fuddled.

Emily Dickinson in what is believed to be the only image of her as an adult, in the early 1850s.

Dickinson more demurely described each of her poems as a "letter to the World,"

Among the recipients of her poems -- and of hundreds of letters -- was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Massachusetts blueblood with a mid-19th-century reputation as a free-thinker and writer.

As reclusive as Dickinson's life was, his was cinematic. Father, husband, minister, naturalist, novelist, poet, politician, teacher -- he was these and more. Impatient with armchair reformers, he ran guns to besieged antislavery Free Soilers in antebellum Kansas, a bowie knife stashed in his boot.

• Read an excerpt from 'White Heat'

Dickinson's verse: "poetry torn up by the roots" that "takes one's breath away."

Tags: emily dickinson

The Dark Hours of my Being

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:32:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alionline.net

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that's wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:

a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs.

--Rilke

The George Orwell Diaries

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:59:20 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Published real-time in blog format with a 70 year lag.
http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/

Clip Source: orwelldiaries.wordpress.com

THE ORWELL PRIZE

In association with the Orwell Trust, Political Quarterly and Media Standards Trust

Clip Source: orwelldiaries.wordpress.com

The Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. From 9th August 2008, Orwell’s domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.

The diaries are exactly as Orwell wrote them.

For more information, click here.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Though as prolific as any blogger (his collected writings occupy some 20 volumes), Orwell, who died in 1950, never had the chance to spontaneously publish his thoughts to a waiting public. Now — with some lag time — they are being made available that way at orwelldiaries.wordpress.com.

Tags: george orwell, diary, politics, news, history, literature, writer

A Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever)

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:27:42 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: beware it`s not just a flower !!

it`s the most beautiful rose i ever saw ... -)

Clip Source: www.poetry-archive.com

TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME

by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

ED Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate,

I find under the boughs of love and hate,

In all poor foolish things that live a day,

Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

Come near, come near, come near -- Ah, leave me still

A little space for the rose-breath to fill!

And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know

Come near; I would, before my time to go,

Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:

Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

Clip Source: s197.photobucket.com

Tags: quotes, images, yeats

Rubaiyat (quatrains) of Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia (1048-1122)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:09:17 GMT

clipped by: Johanna_G
clipper's remarks: Medieval Sourcebook: Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat, c. 1120, trans. E. H. Whinfield
Irania.eu Omar Khayyam Robaiyat
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia (First edition)
Biography
Philosophy of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyám - Wikipedia EN

Clip Source: johammonia2.blogspot.com

Some look for truth in creeds, and forms, and rules;
Some grope for doubts or dogmas in the schools;
But from behind the veil a voice proclaims,
"Your road lies neither here nor there, O fools."

Young wooer, charm all hearts with lover's art,
Glad winner, lead thy paragon apart!
A hundred Kaabas equal not one heart,
Seek not the Kaaba, rather seek a heart!

Better to make one soul rejoice with glee,
Than plant a desert with a colony;
Rather one freeman bind with chains of love,
Than set a thousand prisoned captives free!

They who by genius, and by power of brain,
The rank of man's enlighteners attain,
Not even they emerge from this dark night,
But tell their dreams, and fall asleep again.

Although the creeds number some seventy-three,
I hold with none but that of loving Thee;
What matter faith, unfaith, obedience, sin?
Thou'rt all we need, the rest is vanity.

Tags: omar khayyam, rubaiyat, quatrains, poems, persia, literature, religion, philosophy, middle ages

Scientists on their "life-changing" books

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:59:46 GMT

clipped by: Mohir

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

I always enjoy hearing about the reading habits of people who are much smarter and more interesting than me. New Scientist has a feature package where seventeen big name scientists recommend books that they considered "life-changing." Here is the list of the scientists and the books they suggest, with each title linking to Amazon. Follow the link at the bottom of the post to the New Scientist article where you can read the scientists' thoughts on their picks. From New Scientist:

1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist

2. The Art of the Soluble - V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist

4. The Foundation trilogy - Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist

5. Alice in Wonderland - Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist

6. One, Two, Three... Infinity - Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist

13. Catch-22 / The First Three Minutes - Lawrence Krauss, physicist

15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Chris Frith, neuroscientist

Tags: books

The Alexandrian Library : Digital Resources

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:12:44 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: Very cool site, take a look:

http://www.bibalex.org/Libraries/Presentation/Static/12600.aspx?d=0

Clip Source: www.bibalex.org

As a library of the 21 st Century, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), along with its affiliated academic and cultural centers, is committed to digitization as a means of preserving, managing, and disseminating information and knowledge. The BA sets out to share them with a worldwide audience via the internet, thus promoting greater understanding and tolerance between cultures. To achieve this goal, the BA has formed partnerships with various cultural, academic, governmental, and corporate organizations for the creation of many significant and compelling digital projects. These projects cover a wide array of cultural and educational themes.

Tags: egypt, library, alexandrian, restored