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The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Language, Thought and Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf
Act Two by Barrie Richardson
Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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TagsLiterature (71), Philosophy and Religion (30), Native American (20), Science and Math (17), Stage Magic (11), Alchemy (7), Chess (7) — see all tags
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About meBooks have been friends as long as I can remember. When I was very young, my parents and grandparents read children’s books to me. One benefit was that I learned to sit still and listen quietly—good habits to develop for reading. As I grew and gained reading skills, I began to seek books that interested me, especially those that stirred the imagination. A primary source for suggested readings was my grandfather, who read to me works like Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s and Mark Twain’s stories. Besides reading to me, he encouraged the desire for storytelling by relating adventures he had either experienced or heard about while he was a reporter for newspapers in Chicago. By the time I had reached fifth grade, my teacher gave students in her class special recognition for non-textbooks they had read outside of school. I quickly acquired an interest in history and found a new area of exploration: the pirates and buccaneers of the Caribbean Sea. I also found stories about Native American culture fascinating.
Now looking backward, I realize the influence that reading and, of course, books has played in my life. I enjoy delving into many different areas of human culture: past, present, or futuristic. I have spent thirty-six years as a college teacher, thirty-three of them at City College of San Francisco, teaching Humanities and English. Also, I have published three books and am working on a new one.
Humanities covers everything that humans have done—all the arts and sciences. Books are one channel for communicating and sharing personal visions of reality, but all the other arts forms—the visual arts, music, dramatic performances, dance, and architecture—are also excellent expressions of the human intellect and soul.
Homepagehttp://westgatehouse.com
Real nameYe Olde Consciousness Shoppe
LocationSan Francisco
Emailjcaris
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Member sinceNov 30, 2006
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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors;
No-yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever-or else swoon to death.
posted by theoldman at 11:59 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2009
posted by gregfindley at 6:31 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2007