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About meTo paraphrase Rudyard Kipling in "The Man Who Would Be King", I have been many things in my time; Pater Familias, land surveyor, explorer, archaeologist, anthropologist, author, poet, field scientist, Internet Professional, technology executive, teacher, lecturer, assistant professor, and one summer, was actually a forest ranger in Oregon (loved that job).
About my libraryIt is a work in progress. As an undergraduate at the University of Oregon I studied Japanese Literature, and need to add a lot more books from that period of my life.
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Favorite authorsRyūnosuke Akutagawa, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Campbell, Albert Camus, Raymond Chandler, Michael Connelly, Joseph Conrad, Umberto Eco, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eric Clifton Gibson, William Gibson, Günter Grass, Dashiell Hammett, Aldous Huxley, John Irving, James Joyce, Carl Jung, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Rudyard Kipling, Ross Macdonald, Thomas Mann, Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas Merton, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)
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Real nameEric C. Gibson Ph.D.
LocationTexas Hill Country
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Member sinceAug 11, 2008
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posted by AlexandraRobbins at 7:35 am (EST) on Apr 9, 2011
Boy, stories you could tell........
posted by Urquhart at 5:04 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2010
posted by anna_in_pdx at 5:34 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:35 am (EST) on May 8, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 4:35 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2009
posted by Oregonreader at 5:39 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2009
posted by stypulkoski at 5:00 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2009
Leigh Anne
part of the collection development team for the Reference Department @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main)
posted by clpreforders at 11:36 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2009
I give back to the earth what the earth gave,
All to the furrow, none to the grave,
The candle's out, the spirit's vigil spent;
Sight may not follow where the vision went.
I leave you but the sound of many a word
In mocking echoes haply overheard,
I sang to heaven. My exile made me free,
from world to world, from all worlds carried me.
Spared by the furies, for the Fates were kind,
I paced the pillared cloisters of the mind;
All times my present, everywhere my place,
Nor fear, nor hope, nor envy saw my face.
Blow what winds would, the ancient truth was mine,
And friendship mellowed in the flush of wine,
And heavenly laughter, shaking from its wings
Atoms of light and tears for mortal things.
To trembling harmonies of field and cloud,
Of flesh and spirit was my worship vowed.
Let form, let music, let all quickening air
Fulfill in beauty my imperfect prayer.
-- George Santayana
posted by theoldman at 2:09 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 2:38 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2009
How did you run across my book, The Road From La Cueva? In any case, I'm glad it's in your library. Please let me know what you thought of it, if you wouldn't mind.
Sheila Ortego
sortego@sfccnm.edu
http://www.sheila-novel.blogspot.com
posted by sortego at 6:03 am (EST) on Feb 24, 2009
Did receive the book--many thanks! I look forward to reading it soon . . . have a Cherryh book from the library I have to read first.
Cheers,
Elizabeth
posted by ejj1955 at 7:11 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2009