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Start with Haddawy. His translation is the richest, and also the least censored. His edition, however, includes only the first 271 nights. If you still want more when you've finished that, then you are difinitely hooked, and you will have to go for Burton's set, with a stop along the way for...

The trick in all writing is not to write what they feel, but to write what they do. Their actions should show how they feel.

Mine says--um, wait a minute...

Search the catalog of the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov). Try the author's name. If you know the title, try that too. Try your family name as a subject. Also contact the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. If your family is associated with a particular place, inquire at the...

No printing of that edition known today has WBY embossed on it. Those are probably the initials of a previous owner.

The first two pages of Chapter 21.

Not sure what you want to know. It's probably from around 1895. Dore was the illustrator. He was a popular book illustrator in the mid-late 19th Century. Cassel did not always observe copyright restrictions meticulously, so it could be a bootleg edition. It's worth 100 dollars or more.

I feel that I came close to making personal comments, and may even have crossed that line, and I feel that Sitaram has indeed crossed that line: So, I will stop posting in this thread, and all of his others.

Yeah, that's pretty clear.

Sitaram, what I don't see from you is this: "I apologize for presenting this thread in a way that turned out to be misleading to some. I will try to be more careful in the future." What I see instead is defensiveness in the form of pseudo-intellectual bluster.

I, for one, am not suggesting that the joke was in poor taste. If you had taken the care to identify it as a joke, and to label it appropriately, I'm sure more of us could have appreciated it as a political and social comment, and discussed it accordingly. Since you labelled it carelessly...

Then stop doing it that way. Lesson learned.

No, here's what I find worth discussing: I did the following Google search: "barbara walters" landmines OR "land mines" Here are the first two results: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_land_mines.htm http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/landmine.htm Sitaram, this is...

Since I know Barbara Walters slightly, I opened this thread in fear that it was a notice of her passing. I hope that a moderator will change the title to A Joke, or move it to the joke thread.

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a...

Even first-person narratives that claim to recount waking events require suspension of disbelief. No one could remember as much dialogue as fills most novels. My favorite retelling of a dream is in the second chapter of Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. The images from the dream are rich...

My guess is that you mean Asmiov's story "The Last Question," which I recommend to everybody.

Oh. You're not talking about meaning, you're talking about immortality. You wish you could leave a lasting memory. Good luck.

This is a loaded question. It assumes nothing lasts. How is it, then, that I have read the Odyssey, or Sappho's poems, or Sumerian documents 5,000 years old? And why does meaning have to be lasting?

Yes, and that's the main reason I refer to online versions of books. I don't read them all the way through on the screen, but I use them as finding aids. I even use bootleg sites for this purpose. :o