THE WEBMASTER'S RECOMMENDED READING
Soon after its publication in 1857, Baudelaire's masterpiece was the subject of a famous obscenity trial. While the superb art of the collection was valued and understood by a happy few, for the general bourgeois public, the book was depravity incarnate. AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Although he abandoned poetry before he was twenty-one years old, and wrote for only five or six years in all, Arthur Rimbaud has had an extraordinary influence on modern poetry. His work helped inspire poetic Symbolism, Dadaism and Surrealism. AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Alfred Korzybski belonged to an old Polish family who had been mathematicians, engineers, scientists, etc. for generations. He was the founder and director of the Institute of General Semantics, established in 1938, and continued to lecture and write until his death in March, 1950. AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
"The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts...is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search for pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality." AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866?-1949) expressed the aim of this book as follows: "To destroy, mercilessly and without compromise whatever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world." AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Inspector J. Lee, Nova Police, defines the purpose of Nova Express as the exposure and arrest of nova criminals. "In Naked Lunch, Soft Machine and Nova Express I show who they are and what they are doing and what they will do if they are not arrested." The "boards syndicates and governments of the earth" are "liars cowards collaborators traitors," and their Garden of Delights is a "terminal sewer." AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Tragedy And Hope shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Robert Anton Wilson was a novelist, poet, playwright, lecturer, stand-up comic, futurist and psychologist. In science-fiction he is the author of the Schroedinger's Cat trilogy (called "the most scientific of all science-fiction novels" by The New Scientist). AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
A book of the voyage of the soul, which others call reincarnation, a "perpetual story" which unfolds itself in three cycles (after many others) or three lives, three "islands" which are situated in "this land here or any other". AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Lester Bangs was an original - one of the most innovative, influential, outrageous rock critics of the 1970s. His brilliant writings defined a critical journalism that, though unprecedented, seemed inevitable and long overdue. AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
Hugh Tremont Montague is one of the grand old men of the CIA, a man obsessed and nearly - but not quite - the WASP patrician he seems to be. The narrator of Harlot's story is Harry Hubbard, whose famous father also belongs to the founding generation of the CIA. AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM |
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