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I have found a great wealth of information in the search engines regarding Milton and Calvinism and Arminianism and Cromwell. And I shall be posting shortly in this thread regarding a book I have in front of me by Erich Fromm, D.T. Suzuki, and Richard De martino entitled Zen and...

Thanks for your kind words. How curious that you respond to this particular poem. Just this morning I was looking at a thread here which inquires about "nature novels". I immediately thought of Rachael Carson's The Sea Around Us which I was required to read in 7th grade. Carson's book is...

This morning, Sitaram and Rex had a long discussion which started with the Milton Paradise Lost Thread. http://thebookforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2714 Rex has given permission for me to edit and post our discussion here. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Sitaram: Rex, you are...

Evil, Be Thou My Good In the long (5 hour) PBS (Public Television) interview of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers, there is a brief segment in which Campbell relates a Sufi tradition about Satan. God casts Satan out of heaven with a stentorian voice saying "Begone!" and that last word of God is...

Jorge Luis Borges short story, "The Aleph", Argentinian The google search engine found the complete text of the story in English

Installing additional browsers is a piece of cake. The new browser just becomes an icon on your desktop. If it asks you at some point whether you want to make it your system default browser, then just say no. Say no to browsers, no to drugs, and remember: no baloon, no party.

Amazing! Perhaps your purity of heart gives you an advantage. When I tried to make a little post like this, a few minutes ago, not only did the task lock, but I could not kill the task with task monitor, and I had to reboot the entire machine (which is rare). And we are talking about a new...

Someone once said: "A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager...

I often wonder if Larry is still alive. He was a fellow student, living in my dorm building. He only lasted one year. He did not want to study or do the readings. Writing poetry was his thing. In those days, writing poetry was my thing too. A Greek professor who knew of Larry's interest...

Cenotaph is an interesting word. It means empty tomb. Sometimes, cenotaphs are erected as memorials for decease who leave no bodily remains. Just a thought....

Ice, Try the following experiment.... Create a small post. Save it. Then, lengthen it in stages, using Edit/Update. With each chunk of text that you add, include a pair of bbcode quote tags somewhere in the addition, quoting a line or two. See how large you can get it without a...

"But for the grace of God, there go I" (something my mother used to say). We had one fellow who was described as a sociological wonder: he had completed four different freshman years in four different colleges. There was someone else who graduated St. Johns, but repeated each year twice.

I spent four years at a college where, twice each week, thirty people would sit around a huge table, for 2.5 hours discussing a reading from the "Great Books" in a most serious fashion. In my Freshman seminar, there was one student, Larry, who for the first several months remained utterly...

For those who prefer Internet Explorer, I suppose a re-install of IE would be a worthwhile experiment, or applying updates, if updates exist. You may download netscape first, to make certain you have some kind of browser working, before you play games with IE. Sometimes, I suppose, it can be...

Kookamoor Thanks for attachement which I just received (I am at work) and forwarded to rex_yuan in China. I shall examine attachment tonight. I learned from a Chinese nurse in the states that Western Union is a handy way to exchange money between China and US. I hope to go shopping in...

Delete all cookies It is worwhile to go into Internet Options and delete all cookies, and then log in again to TBF, simply to rule out a problem with cookies. It is worthwhile to download other browsers, such as netscape or opera, to rule out a browser problem. Another tactic is to test by...

I have the same problems at work and at home, one is Earthlink DSL and the other is Verizon DSL. I stopped having problems for now, since I never use bbcodes quote tags.

Part VIII I am a poet. There are two of us. "A poet is a man conscientiously alone." I have often said it. I say it now. He says it also. He too claims that he has often said it. Was it I who wrote it then, or he? Did he say it first, for me to hear. Did I tell him that he...

Part VII Now I feel that I could hear a glance, If in this room you should now glance at me. If you but notice, I will be aware. We are closest now. To touch your lips is but to taste your voice. In your hand the cry of hidden wants resides, And placing it in mine communicates...

Part VI Circle, spiral, cube, Square, cylinder, Tetrahedron, parallelogram, The shape of shapes, The artist's ordered space, The mathematician's tidy mind, A greedy architect who tries to steal from length The infant blocks which find the hands of youth. Build a world...