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the world is a place of amazement. Thrashing through day-to-day crud, it is important to slow down enough to always be fascinated. Read, listen, watch, study...

 

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  Great writers.
A few ...

Being a dyslexic, and not starting to read at all until I was ten, when words finally showed up for me, they stuck... reading books under the covers with a flashlight far past bedtimes, reading by the side of the road as a runaway, reading poetry and novels during boring college lectures, reading when there has been nothing else...

And every business deal I have ever done has somehow revolved around shared empathy for a work of literature...

Most of what we try to figure out has been figured out, we just need to find the right words..

Many of these links take you directly to the various author's works. Spend some time and read. Print out what you need to. Get away from the machines, away from the clutter.
Read, enjoy, live..
  Robert W. Service  
  Knut Hamsun  
  e.e. cummings  
  Charles Bukowski  
  Louis Ferdinand CELINE  
  William Saryoan  
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
  Anton CHEKHOV The Grasshopper
  A.B. Guthirie, Jr.  
  Richard Hugo  
  Henry Miller  
  Carl Sandburg Smoke and Steel
  The Sayings of Confucius  
  T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  Homer The Odyssey
  Eugene O’Neill  
  W.B. Yeates The Wind Among the Reeds
     
     

 

Favorite movies and books
My top ten lists...

 

 

Lists are abitrary, moody things. Here are a few movies and books that I think are great; watch, read, think.... (these are Not linked to anywere).


Moives
City Light 1931 Charlie Chaplin
The Circus 1928 Charlie Chaplin
Basquiat 1996 Julian Schnabel
Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott
Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant
Dodes 'Ka-Den 1970 Akira Kurosawa
Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa
Into the West 1993 Mike Newell
Brother from Another Planet 1990 John Sayles
Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders / Sam Shepard
Babebette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel

Books
Pan -- Knut Hamsun
The Crossing -- Cormac McCarthy
All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers -- Larry McMurtry
The Periodic Table -- Primo Levi
The Big Sky -- A.B. Guthrie
Love Is A Dog From Hell -- Bukowski
Notes From the Century Before -- Edward Hoagland
Lord Jim -- Joseph Conrad
The Alexandria Quartet (Justine...) -- Lawrence Durrell
First Circle -- A. Solzenitsyn
My Name Is Aram -- William Saroyan

 
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