literary e-mail with a local, re reading list Great-looking stuff. I have not read any dfw yet, looking forward to it. Epictetus I have read in summary a few places, western philosophy. Have read two by Hesse, personally I say pass and catch elsewhere there. The rest look interesting and great. books downloads folder, on this computer, not looking to read all of them C:\various\books, twenty-seventeen computer, twenty-eighteen 01 - Robert E. Howard & Mark Schultz - Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The.epub 02 - Robert E. Howard & Gary Gianni - Bloody Crown of Conan, The.epub 03 - Robert E. Howard - Conquering Sword of Conan, The.epub Adams, Douglas - Dirk Gently 01 - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.mobi Adams, Douglas - Dirk Gently 02 - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.mobi Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker 01 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.mobi Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker 02 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.mobi Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker 03 - Life, the Universe and Everything.mobi Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker 04 - So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish.mobi Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker 05 - Mostly Harmless.mobi Adams, Douglas - Last Chance to See.mobi Adams, Douglas - The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.mobi Alexander, Lloyd - Prydain 01 - The Book of Three.mobi Alexander, Lloyd - Prydain 02 - The Black Cauldron.mobi Alexander, Lloyd - Prydain 03 - The Castle of Llyr.mobi Alexander, Lloyd - Prydain 04 - Taran Wanderer.mobi Alexander, Lloyd - Prydain 05 - The High King.mobi Asmiov, Isaac - Foundation 01 - Foundation.mobi Asmiov, Isaac - Foundation 02 - Foundation and Empire.mobi Asmiov, Isaac - Foundation 03 - Second Foundation.mobi Asmiov, Isaac - Foundation 04 - Foundation's Edge.mobi Asmiov, Isaac - Foundation 05 - Foundation and Earth.mobi Asmiov, Isaac - Foundation 06 - Prelude to Foundation.mobi Asmiov, Isaac - Foundation 07 - Forward the Foundation.mobi Austen, Jane - Emma.mobi Austen, Jane - Mansfield Park.mobi Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey.mobi Austen, Jane - Persuasion.mobi Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice.mobi Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility.mobi Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre.mobi Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch.mobi C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 01 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.mobi C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 02 - Prince Caspian.mobi C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 03 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.mobi C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 04 - The Silver Chair.mobi C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 05 - The Horse and His Boy.mobi C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 06 - The Magician's Nephew.mobi C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 07 - The Last Battle.mobi Christie, Agatha - And Then There Were None.mobi Christie, Agatha - Murder on the Orient Express.mobi Clarke, Arthur C. - 2001 A Space Odyssey.mobi (loved books three and four of this series) Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End.mobi Cooper, Susan - The Dark is Rising 01 - Over Sea, Under Stone.mobi Cooper, Susan - The Dark is Rising 02 - The Dark is Rising.mobi Cooper, Susan - The Dark is Rising 03 - Greenwitch.mobi Cooper, Susan - The Dark is Rising 04 - The Grey King.mobi Cooper, Susan - The Dark is Rising 05 - Silver on the Tree.mobi Diamond, Jared - Collapse.mobi Diamond, Jared - Guns, Germs and Steel.mobi Dick, Philip K. - A Scanner Darkly.mobi Dick, Philip K. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.mobi Dick, Philip K. - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.mobi Dick, Philip K. - The Man in the High Castle.mobi Dick, Philip K. - The Minority Report.mobi Dick, Philip K. - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.mobi Dick, Philip K. - Ubik.mobi Dick, Philip K. - Valis.mobi Herbert, Frank - Dune 01 - Dune.mobi Herbert, Frank - Dune 02 - Dune Messiah.mobi Herbert, Frank - Dune 03 - Children of Dune.mobi Herbert, Frank - Dune 04 - God Emperor of Dune.mobi Herbert, Frank - Dune 05 - Heretics of Dune.mobi Herbert, Frank - Dune 06 - Chapterhouse Dune.mobi Laurie, Hugh - The Gun Seller.mobi Obama, Barack - The Audacity of Hope.mobi phyllis_bottome__the_dark_tower__pg25829.txt phyllis_bottome__the_second_fiddle__pg41107.txt Plato - The Republic.mobi Pullman, Philip - His Dark Materials 01 - The Golden Compass.mobi Pullman, Philip - His Dark Materials 02 - The Subtle Knife.mobi Pullman, Philip - His Dark Materials 03 - The Amber Spyglass.mobi Religion - The Bible.mobi Roth, Philip - American Pastoral.mobi Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint.mobi Roth, Philip - The Human Stain.mobi Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter 01 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.mobi Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter 02 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.mobi Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter 03 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.mobi Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter 04 - Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.mobi Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter 05 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.mobi Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter 06 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.mobi Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter 07 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.mobi Rowling, J.K. - The Casual Vacancy.mobi Rowling, J.K. - The Tales of Beedle the Bard.mobi Russinovich, Mark - Zero Day.mobi Sagan, Carl - Contact.mobi Sagan, Carl - Cosmos.mobi Sagan, Carl - Pale Blue Dot.mobi Sagan, Carl - The Demon Haunted World.mobi Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein.mobi Steinbeck, John - Cannery Row.mobi Steinbeck, John - East of Eden.mobi Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men.mobi Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath.mobi Steinbeck, John - The Pearl.mobi Steinbeck, John - Tortilla Flat.mobi Stephenson, Neal - Anathem.mobi Stephenson, Neal - Cryptonomicon.mobi Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash.mobi Stephenson, Neal - The Baroque Cycle 01 - Quicksilver.mobi Stephenson, Neal - The Baroque Cycle 02 - The Confusion.mobi Stephenson, Neal - The Baroque Cycle 03 - The System of the World.mobi Stephenson, Neal - The Diamond Age.mobi Stoker, Bram - Dracula.mobi Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.mobi Thompson, Hunter S. - Hell's Angels.mobi Thompson, Hunter S. - The Great Shark Hunt.mobi Thompson, Hunter S. - The Rum Diary.mobi Thoreau, Henry David - Walden.mobi Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Children of Hurin.mobi Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit.mobi Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings 01 - The Fellowship of the Ring.mobi Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings 02 - The Two Towers.mobi Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings 03 - The Return of the King.mobi Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Silmarillion (Illustrated).epub Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Silmarillion.mobi Tolkien, J.R.R. - Unfinished Tales of N£menor and Middle-Earth.epub Updike, John - Rabbit 01 - Rabbit Run.mobi Updike, John - Rabbit 02 - Rabbit Redux.mobi Updike, John - Rabbit 03 - Rabbit is Rich.mobi Updike, John - Rabbit 04 - Rabbit at Rest.mobi Vonnegut, Kurt - A Man Without a Country.mobi Vonnegut, Kurt - Breakfast of Champions.mobi Vonnegut, Kurt - Cat's Cradle.mobi Vonnegut, Kurt - Deadeye Dick.mobi Vonnegut, Kurt - Galapagos.mobi Vonnegut, Kurt - Mother Night.mobi Vonnegut, Kurt - Player Piano.mobi Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five.mobi Wallace, David Foster - Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.mobi Wallace, David Foster - Consider the Lobster.mobi Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest.mobi Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine and the Invisible Man.mobi Wells, H.G. - The War of the Worlds.mobi Wheaton, Wil - Just a Geek.mobi Wolfe, Tom - Bonfire of the Vanities.mobi Wolfe, Tom - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.mobi Wolfe, Tom - The Right Stuff.mobi Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway.mobi Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse.mobi Zelazny, Roger - The Great Book of Amber.mobi Hesse quotes in ms bookshelf 2000, eleven quotations, Death and Dying The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Letter, 1950 (published in Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography, “Montagnola,” ed. by Volker Michels, 1973). See also: Allen on The Afterlife Wittgenstein on Eternity Life And Death Bridges on Lovers Shaw on Science Bright on War Kübler-Ross on War Historians You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Father Jacobus, in The Glass Bead Game, ch. 4 (1943; tr. 1960). See also: Durant on Civilization Hobsbawm on Nationalism History History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for power, of blood lust, violence, destruction, and wars, of ambitious ministers, venal generals, bombarded cities, and we too easily forget that this is only one of its many aspects. Above all we forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. The Glass Bead Game, ch. 11 (1943; tr. 1960). To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Father Jacobus, in The Glass Bead Game, ch. 4 (1943; tr. 1960). See also: Emerson on Biography Emerson on Minorities Camus on Nostalgia Johnson on Slander De Gaulle on Solitude Eliot on Women Home and Houses One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Frau Eva, in Demian, ch. 5 (1960). See also: The Homeless Housework Bowen on Loneliness Lebowitz on Snobbery The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Bible: New Testament. Jesus, in Matthew 8:20. Housekeeping ain’t no joke. Louisa May Alcott (1832–88), U.S. author. The cook Hannah, in Little Women, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1868). Humankind What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men—each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature—are shot down wholesale. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. The narrator (Sinclair), in Demian, Prologue (1960). See also: Nietzsche on Aesthetics Butler on Animals Smith on Business And Commerce Huxley on Change Pascal on Consciousness And The Subconscious Hebrew Bible on The Creation Billings on The Creation Cervantes on The Creation Morley on The Creation Twain on Embarrassment Gilbert on Evolution Butler on Fun Satta on God Ouida on Hope Johnson on Idleness Emerson on Intelligence Misanthropy Addison on Laughter Huxley on Morality Shaw on Parasites Miller on Potential Gay on Sociability Lawrence on The Soul Marvell on Survival Carlyle on Tools Chesterton on Virtue Calvino on The World Individuality In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Narrator (Sinclair), in Demian, Prologue (1960). See also: Cocteau on Criticism Music I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn’t. I have always found moralizing intolerable. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Sinclair, in Demian, ch. 5 (1960). See also: Stravinsky on Cinema Opera Popular Music Rap Music Rock ‘n’ Roll Song Simon on Spontaneity Bernstein on Technique Zappa on Time Suffering Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Steppenwolf, Preface (1927). See also: Weil on Dissatisfaction Byatt on Grief Austen on Places Weil on Punishment Hoffer on Purpose The Bourgeoisie The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self. … And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Steppenwolf, “Treatise on the Steppenwolf” (1927). See also: Weil on Accounts Engels on Class Grosz on Culture The Middle Class The Middle Class What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist, poet. Steppenwolf, “For Madmen Only” (1927). See also: Sutton on Class Friel on Repression The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press Steppenwolf looks promising, the two that I happened to read in my college years were Sidd and Demian. Glass beads.