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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

Complete Works - Plato

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:49:56 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.ac-nice.fr

Complete Works

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett

Lesser Hippias
Greater Hippias
Ion
Protagoras
Apology
Crito
Alcibiades
Charmides
Laches
Lysis
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Menexenus
Meno
Euthydemus
Cratylus
Symposium
Phaedo
Republic
Phaedrus
Theaetetus
Parmenides
Sophist
Statesman
Timaeus
Critias
Philebus
Laws

Epinomis

Letters
Alcibiades II
Hipparchus
Lovers
Theages
Cleitophon
Minos

Tags: plato, as translated, works, literature

50 Great Free Online Libraries

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:44:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.fotolia.com

Clip Source: www.attiaspace.com

50 Great Free Online Libraries

1. California Digital Library

2. The Online Books Page

3. Free Books

4. Project Gutenberg

5. Research Assistance

6. BookRags - E-Books and Book Notes

7. All Bookstores.com

8. FreeTech Books

10. Free E-Books.net

12. The eBook Directory

13. University of Virginia's E-Book library

14. BizzyDays Ebook Publications

15. Web Source

16. free-ebooks-4u.com

18. Free eBooks and Best Sites

19. Free Electronic Books

20. CIW Free E-Books

21. My Free EBooks

22. Free E-Books

25. EBookstand

26. Bibliomania

27. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

28. The eText Archive

29. Free Books 5000

33. Page by Page Books

34. bartleby.com

35. Free Books 4 Doctors

37. Chapter-a-Day - Free Books in Your E-Mail!

38. Free-Book.co.uk: The directory of free online books

39. FreeBooknotes.com - Free study guides for over 250 books

42. BeyondBooks.com

46. eBooks4free.net - Download free books and manuscripts

48. Free Joke Books

56. Be Successful!

57. Daily Literature

58. Bookyards: library to the world

4shared.com

ReadPrint.com

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.

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

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

Masters of Chiasmus

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:21:26 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: www.drmardy.com

The Oxford English Dictionary

defines chiasmus as

"A grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two of parallel clauses is inverted in the other."

Clip Source: www.drmardy.com

Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)

"Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps,
the end of the beginning."

Clip Source: www.drmardy.com

John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)

"Let us never negotiate out of fear;
but let us never fear to negotiate."

Clip Source: www.drmardy.com

Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)

"I wrote when I did not know life;
now that I do know the meaning of life,
I have no more to write.
Life cannot be written; life can only be lived."

Clip Source: www.drmardy.com

George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)

"Standing between you the Englishman,
so clever in your foolishness,
and this Irishman, so foolish in his cleverness,
I cannot in my ignorance be sure
which of you is the more deeply damned."

Clip Source: www.drmardy.com

William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)

"The shepard seeks the sheep,
and not the sheep the shepard;
but I seek my master,
and my master seeks not me;
therefore I am no sheep."

Tags: words, language, history, literature, writers

110 best books:The perfect library

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:42:04 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

110 best books: The perfect library

From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world… we present the ultimate reading list. Illustrations by David Juniper

CLASSICS

The Illiad and The Odyssey
Homer

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

POETRY

Sonnets
Shakespeare

Divine Comedy
Dante

Odes
John Keats

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Songs of Innocence and Experience
William Blake

LITERARY FICTION

The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

ROMANTIC FICTION

Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier

Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

Dr Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The Lord of the Rings
J.R. R. Tolkien

The Railway Children
E. Nesbit

SCI-FI

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

1984
George Orwell

2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick

CRIME

Tags: book, writing, history, literature, lists

Professor Paul Brians: Study Guides to Various Works

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:11:45 GMT

clipped by: Johanna_G
clipper's remarks: Very illuminative, engrossing, helpful, thought-provoking.

Clip Source: www.wsu.edu:8080

prepared by Professor Paul Brians of Washington State University for the use of students in his classes.

World Civilizations (General Education 110 and 111)

Science Fiction (English 333)

Science Fiction Film

Love in the Arts

Chinese and Japanese Love Poetry

The Song of Songs

Classical Greek & Roman Love Poems

Classic English Love Poems

Mystical Love Poetry

Medieval Love Songs

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Bernstein: West Side Story

Modern Women's Love Poetry

World Literature in English of India, Africa, and the Caribbean (English 222)

The Bible as Literature

18th and 19th Century European Classics (Humanities 303)

Beethoven: Symphony no. 9

Verdi: La Traviata

The Enlightenment

Voltaire: The Philosophical Dictionary

The Problem of Evil

Romanticism

Goethe: Faust

Women Artists Assignment

Realism & Naturalism

19th-Century Russian Literature

Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Misconceptions, Confusions, and Conflicts Concerning Socialism, Communism, and Capitalism

French Impressionist Painting

Tags: study guides, science fiction, love, arts, poetry, bible, dramas, philosophy, enlightenment, literature

The Pushkin factor in romantic relationships

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:36:26 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: Brainy women are probably more sensitive to literary deal breakers than are brainy men. Rare is the guy who’d throw a pretty girl out of bed for revealing her imperfect taste in books.After all, women read more, especially when it comes to fiction. “It’s really great if you find a guy that reads, period,” said Beverly West.“Most of my friends and men in my life are nonreaders,” she said, but “now that you mention it, if I went over to a man’s house and there were those books about life’s lessons learned from dogs, I would probably keep my clothes on.”

James Collins, whose new novel, “Beginner’s Greek,” is about a man who falls for a woman he sees reading “The Magic Mountain” on a plane, recalled that after college, he was “infatuated” with a woman who had a copy of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” on her bedside table. “I basically knew nothing about Kundera, but I remember thinking, ‘Uh-oh; trendy, bogus metaphysics, sex involving a bowler hat’...

Clip Source: www.disabledartistsnetwork.net

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

It’s Not You, It’s Your Books

Anyone who cares about books has at some point confronted the Pushkin problem: when a missed — or misguided — literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast.

These days, thanks to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, listing your favorite books and authors is a crucial, if risky, part of self-branding. When it comes to online dating, even casual references can turn into deal breakers. Sussing out a date’s taste in books is “actually a pretty good way — as a sort of first pass — of getting a sense of someone,” said Anna Fels, a Manhattan psychiatrist

“It’s a bit of a Rorschach test.”

“It tells something about ... their level of intellectual curiosity, what their style is,” Fels said. “It speaks to class, educational level.”

sometimes, it’s the Howard Roark problem as much as the Pushkin one

“I did have to break up with one guy because he was very keen on Ayn Rand,” said Laura Miller

this may be a gender issue

Tags: books, writers, writing, literature

Finally some one

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:19:01 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: Reflections on Thomas Metzinger’s “Being No One”

Clip Source: 64.233.183.104

ABSTRACT: I praise Metzinger's book On Being No One by calling my essay "Finally

Some One" meaning that I am pleased to see a first rate philosopher so carefully reading the

neurobiological literature.

My quarrel with Metzinger concerns his refusal to call first person accounts data. I

describe the rationale and strategy for placing heavy and confident emphasis on first person

accounts and show how our own methodology reveals reliable and valid data. I further argue that

such accounts must be accorded data states if we are to make any progress in solving the mind-

brain problem

“Finally some one” I say, “has taken the trouble to read the neurobiological literature and

has attempted its integration with philosophical criticism

How I became interested in Being No One

How to read Being No One

The book itself

Why I like the book

What I don’t like about the book

What approach should we take to phenomenology?

Lucid dreaming to the rescue

An empirical approach to phenomenology

Tags: hobson, metzinger, philosophy, self, model, subjectivity

The Fantastic in Art & Fiction

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:34:55 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: >>Images were selected for their intrinsic relationship to the topic, because they illuminated an important dynamic, or quite simply because they were unusually striking.Though, inevitably, some familiar pieces will be found in these pages, we have attempted to favor rare or unusual works that, to our knowledge, have not been reproduced before. Hence the concomitant emphasis on book illustration, and on a wealth of images that have remained more or less invisible in canonical art histories.

Because of its rich and varied modes of representation the Fantastic also lends itself quite easily to interdisciplinary approaches. Psychology and sociology, art and literary history, anthropology and folklore among other disciplines, can provide avenues of investigation useful in the study of such basic critical or analytical concepts for the Fantastic as repression, the uncanny, indeterminacy, or the postmodern.<<

Clip Source: fantastic.library.cornell.edu

About the Site

Sponsored by Cornell University's Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) this image-bank provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art. While the site emerges from a comparative literature course on the topic at Skidmore College, it is also intended to open the door to consideration of some of the constant structures and patterns of fantastic literature, and the problems they raise. In this sense, the materials presented here may find a use among students in a variety of disciplines.

In the context of western literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Fantastic involves dread, fear and anxiety in the face of phenomena that escape rational explanation, or that reveal the notion of reality to be no more than a construct.

Clip Source: fantastic.library.cornell.edu

Devil or Angel? Please say you'll be mine

Clip Source: fantastic.library.cornell.edu

Tags: art, fiction, pics, illustrations, dark, gothic

50 arts secrets revealed

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:55:29 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: arts.guardian.co.uk

50 arts secrets revealed

Do directors find sex scenes embarrassing? Is the urinal in my local pub art? How does a triangle player make a living? What's the difference between pornographic and erotic photos? Our experts from the worlds of music, literature, film and art answer those intriguing questions you've always wanted to ask.

Books

Q Is it always better to write about what you know?

Q Do children's books have to take the children's side?

Q Why don't we read short stories in Britain?

Q Does everyone have a novel in them?

Q How long does it take to write a novel?

Q Has anyone read Finnegans Wake from cover to cover?

Classical

Q How does the orchestra's triangle player earn a living?

Q What does a conductor do?

Q What do orchestras do to unwind?

Q How come many opera singers are so thin these days?

Drama

Q Are sex scenes as uncomfortable for directors as for actors?

Q How do actors remember their lines?

Q What's the hardest accent to adopt?

Q Does the show always go on?

Q Do star actors audition?

Tags: culture, arts, music

10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:07:47 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: You gotta love these!!!!

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

«The Effect of Country Music on Suicide»

«Love and Sex with Robots»

"Human-robot marriages will be legal by 2050"

«Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World's Literature»

«Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans»
(S. Ghirlanda, L. Jansson, M. Enquist; Stockholm University; 2002)
"The animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences"

«Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment»
(Satish Chandra Mishra; Charak Palika Hospital; 2005)
"A quick, simple and non-traumatic approach to penile zipper entrapment"

«Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo -- Calculations on Avian Defecation»
(V. Breno Meyer-Rochow and J. Gal; International University of Bremen and Lorand Eotvos University of Hungary; 2005)
"They get up, move to the edge of the nest, turn around, bend over... and shoot"

Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread»

Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory Responses and Thermal

Tags: bizarre

Top 10 Drunk American Writers

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:32:14 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: I'm looking for the women..

Clip Source: www.alternativereel.com

"After a month's sobriety my faculties became unbearably acute and I found myself unhealthily clairvoyant, having insights into places I'd as soon not journey to. Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety."

"As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind."

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

Tags: writers, list, american, quotes, drinking, drink, men, literature, photos

Clipmarks | Aribeth's 'literature' clips

The Roots of Today's Science Fiction Go Back Centuries

Complete Works - Plato

50 Great Free Online Libraries

50 Great Free Online Libraries

What is the power of things we hold dear?

The George Orwell Diaries

THE ORWELL PRIZE

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

Masters of Chiasmus

110 best books:The perfect library

110 best books: The perfect library

Professor Paul Brians: Study Guides to Various Works

Science Fiction (English 333)

The Pushkin factor in romantic relationships

Finally some one

The Fantastic in Art & Fiction

50 arts secrets revealed

50 arts secrets revealed

10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

«Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans»(S. Ghirlanda, L. Jansson, M. Enquist; Stockholm University; 2002) "The animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences"

«Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment»(Satish Chandra Mishra; Charak Palika Hospital; 2005) "A quick, simple and non-traumatic approach to penile zipper entrapment"

«Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo -- Calculations on Avian Defecation»(V. Breno Meyer-Rochow and J. Gal; International University of Bremen and Lorand Eotvos University of Hungary; 2005) "They get up, move to the edge of the nest, turn around, bend over... and shoot"

Top 10 Drunk American Writers

«Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans»
(S. Ghirlanda, L. Jansson, M. Enquist; Stockholm University; 2002)
"The animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences"

«Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment»
(Satish Chandra Mishra; Charak Palika Hospital; 2005)
"A quick, simple and non-traumatic approach to penile zipper entrapment"

«Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo -- Calculations on Avian Defecation»
(V. Breno Meyer-Rochow and J. Gal; International University of Bremen and Lorand Eotvos University of Hungary; 2005)
"They get up, move to the edge of the nest, turn around, bend over... and shoot"