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Browsing Archive: July, 2010

galabram's world

Posted by Nathan Neuharth on Monday, July 12, 2010,
I finished reading the People from the Other World.  Not as good as I was expecting.  The cover art, the title, and the theosophy is what turned me on to it.  The book ended up being about spiritualists who were really illusionists.  The author seemed to be hoodwinked because he wanted to believe so bad.

Now I'm reading the Knight by Gene Wolfe.  I'm only three chapters into it, but so far so good.  He's a good writer.  I like it.  It's got my attention.

I went to see Preditors at the theatre t...
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there is more than one way to do everything

Posted by Nathan Neuharth on Friday, July 9, 2010,

I finished reading Illium by Dan Simmons the other day.  Good book.  If you like soft science fiction and Greek mythology, you'll love it.  Achilles is an arrogant bad ass in it, but I've always prefered Hector.  Hector seems more like a good guy to me, Achilles like the indestructable brat.

I'm now reading People from the Other World by Henry S. Olcott (an enthusiastic theosophist).  First published in 1875, my copy was published in 1972.  I love old books.  The smell is such a comfort.

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“i want to be a poet and i am working to make myself a seer, you will not under stand this and i don't know how to explain it to you...it is a question of reaching the unknown by the derangement of all the senses...the sufferings are enormous, but one has to be strong, one has to be born a poet, and i know, i am a poet...” -Arthur Rimbaud

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned." - Lord Byron

"The time to fight for freedom is the time when freedom is threatened,
not the time when freedom is destroyed, for that later time is too late. Freedom is threatened now, the destruction of freedom is not far off. Now is the time to
fight." -Jack Parsons