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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose (Paperback) by B. R. Myers I was looking at a copy of B.R. Myers’ Manifesto and was tempted to purchase it. He does in places harshly criticize Annie Proulx, whom I admire. My admiration for Proulx...

http://www.tsu.edu/academics/arts/whatsnew/Chronicle_Feb_2005.pdf W.W. Norton has brought together a wealth of general literature resources, available to students and instructors, in one location, Norton Literature Online available to students and instructors. Some resources are book...

Perhaps it is mentioned in this link: http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~jcherney/apocbib.html I am doing some google searching on : christian fiction apocalyptic 1994 action If I find other promising links, I shall post in this thread

I just now had a chat with my friend Ladybug in Tehran, and asked her what time it is. For her it is 10:30pm Sunday, and for me, GMT-5 east coast USA, it is 3pm. I explained to her that at 2am this morning, we all set our clocks ahead one hour, and explained the "Spring ahead, Fall back"...

Check out this essay http://www.msu.edu/~penickd1/pages/penick04.htm

http://www.greenmanreview.com/mozart.htm John Updike wrote an introduction to Karl Barth's biography of Mozart. Also see http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week812/exclusive.html Updike speaks on religion.

excerpts from 415 - John Updike and the Funny Theologian at http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/ under Literary Topics (various excerpts, scattered throughout the article) Updike's love for Barth finds obvious expression in such full-blown Barthian characters as the Reverend Thomas...

I have long felt that existentialism appears inchoate in Pascal's Pensees. "The heart has reasons of which Reason knows nothing." and that Pensee about the unfeeling universe which may crush me, yet I am superior to it, because I KNOW my frailty, but the universe knows nothing. I...

"The Atlantic Monthly" seems to be the same publication where Thoreau and Emerson published: http://www.transcendentalists.com/f_b_sanborn.htm Here is one link which mentions some issues from the 19th century. http://www.transcendentalists.com/f_b_sanborn.htm I was reading some of...

That Nietzsche quote is at the top of the home page of http://www.fyodordostoevsky.com A few years ago, I went into a very large Barnes and Noble book store, with a very large philosophy section, and noticed that nearly half the books were about Nietzsche, which led me to believe that he is...

Well, you see, in the Qu'ran, and in Islamic tradition, all of the 128 Surahs were revealed to Muhammed by the angel Gabreel (Gabriel). It was felt that Allah would not speak directly to anyone, which is in stark contract to the Jewish scriptures, in which Jehoveh-Yahweh-Hashem (take your pick)...

The reason for my recent renewed interest in The Satanic Verses is a Farsi word I learned from, of all things, the DVD of the movie Crash. The family owning the small store, with the broken lock and door, is obviously from somewhere like Pakistan, or India, but we are not really told where...

You have the better makings of a lawyer than a friend, perhaps, in part, because you are so passionately concerned with being right, rather than rightly concerned with being compassionate. You cavil in your argument between the concept of weight and mass. Were some of the carbon dioxide...

This is a very informative link to read regarding "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie http://www.webcurrent.com/rushdie.html

At the risk of provoking even more thinking, or worse yet, provoking Libre, consider the following hypothetical scenario: I place a chunk of dry ice (frozen Carbon Dioxide) upon a scale, and it happens to register 1 pound (pardon me for not saying a kilo, but I am a true blue North...

My wife sometimes listens to a corny Gospel song with a refrain of "Standing, standing, standing on the promises ...." So, I say the tortoise stands upon promises. And since reason abhors an infinite regress in axiomatic systems, therefore I declare the tortoise promises as axiomatic. - Q.E.D.

We must carefully distinguish between the everyday notion of weight, which involves gravity, and the concept in Physics of mass.

Everyone knows the earth is on the back of a very large tortoise!

One bit of wisdom that changed my life: "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose (unless you are on Brokeback Mountain)."

You mean, with my shoes on, or off? (Ha Ha, just kidding, Aw, give us another chance) I think I want to check out your question on Time. I like the metaphysical. One of my my big hang ups for years is Revelation 10:6 where it says, literally, in the Greek, "And time shall be no longer."...