Selected Footnotes

Selected Footnotes
The Concentrated Reading Project

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In a concentrated reading project I started reading 120 books in four months from 17.7.2008. This
experiment resulting in 1 book / day had been intended to test a thesis of synergy to be caused by
concentrating a huge amount of information (120 books) within a limited time (4 months).
Of course I had been reading some of these books in the previous years, but I wanted to see what
happened if the existing knowledge had been refreshed in details. The books have been read in an
ad-lib sequence1.
There is some interesting result in concentrated reading, which may have been caused by contacting
correlating data and details in the reliable short-time memory, which would be impossible to be
processed in the more unreliably operating long-time memory. It turned out data could be checked
more easily if they had been read a few days or weeks before.
In Chronicles Bob Dylan reports the huge amount of reading libraries of books and hearing vinyl
recordings, which allowed him to create so much famous songs. In his later episodes he feels sorry
to have failed to reach the level of these creative phases again and again. I decided to test whether
the concentrated reading and hearing might have influenced creativity.
In order to memorize details I decided to document some Remarkable Footnotes worth to be
memorized for later use and re-finding in a quickly growing database which now contains 175
entries. Data have been registered in several languages and may easily be accessed by several
search procedures. The closing of my Google-groups resulted in a new form of database in a pdf-
file, which in contrast to the previous structure has been sorted in languages and publication dates.
The concentrated reading project mainly resulted in insight to the evolving relations between
matrimonial partners in an incredibly changing religious Catholic system between 1930 and 1960.
In the former Catholic system men considered women as their servants, who were not allowed to
serve at the altar and were not allowed to manage their own lives. Those days the pregnant women
were forced to accept a dangerous “treatment” with baptismal water 2. Studying these religious
prescriptions we hardly imagine any happy matrimonial relation created between 1930 and 1960.
1 which had been registered in the Google-group Konzentriertes Lesen (“concentrated reading” and/or my Google-
Library (both structures have been closed and deleted now).
2 From e.g.: Moral Theology: O.F.M. CAP., J.C.D. Rev. Heribert Jone
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English
1. Zohar, Bereshith to Lekh Lekha (1300)

• Zohar, Bereshith to Lekh Lekha
• published by Forgotten Books
• ISBN 1605067466, 9781605067469
• Contents: 101 chapters, 410 pages
→ Link to the Complete text of the Zohar
The most important Cabballistic Hebrew book Zohar is available at several online-web-sources.
The symbolism in the four characters of holy, secret name Tetragrammaton (YHVH respectively
IHVH) is documented as follows:
• The great Being who in himself is both male and female. And who is He? The eternal One,
En Soph, the boundless One, from whom hath proceeded all life and breath and all things.
( Source: Zohar - Chapter 2 )
• The two supreme letters of the divine name, Y and H are ruling and dominating the two
remaining letters, V and H, that form their chariot. (Source: Zohar - Chapter 3 )
• The letters yod and he symbolize the father and the mother ( Source: Zohar - Chapter 7 )
• The V in the divine name IHVH is the son or child of I and H, the Father and the Mother
(Source: Zohar - Chapter 12 )
The first man Adam has been created androgynous, with faces turning one to the right, the other to
the left.
Both the male and female half felt lonely and had to be separated by God. The divine Being
decorated the female half like a bride and did lead her in front of her male companion to see him in
the eyes for the very first time. See the Zohar's documentation:
• The Holy One then separated them and having clothed the latter in a form most fair and
beautiful brought her to man, as a bride is adorned and led to the bridegroom. Scripture
states that He took one of the sides or parts (of the androgynous form) and filled up the place
with flesh in its stead. Then Adam and Eve ceased to be androgynous and gazed into each
other's faces, as is the case with heaven and earth, the one reflecting the image of the other.
(Source: Zohar - Chapter 16 )
The rainbow provides a special covenant's description in a 4-headed and 4-colours scheme,
referring the deity's symbolism to 3 animals: lion, ox and eagle. The Zohar documents:
• It is termed the bow of the covenant, as the ray in the how though refracted in three others is
one way, so is the celestial light reflected downward by the firmament supported by the four
cherubic forms of the heavenly or divine chariot. Therefore it is forbidden to gaze at the
rainbow that appears in the heaven because thereby the Schekina of which it is an image is
profaned.
• Above them is the glittering firmament, whose cardinal quarters reflect the image of each
of their forms when turned towards them, as also the colors peculiar to each of them. They
are the forms of a lion, an ox, an eagle and a man. In three of these, the human countenance
is so prominent, that the lion resembles a lion man and so with the two others, that are
termed the eagle man, the ox man, and thus as scripture 71b states, 'They four had the face
of a man.'Ez. 1:10 As the firmament was above them it not only reflected their forms but also
the colours peculiar to each of them and that correspond to the four letters of the sacred

name I. H. V. H. and visible to man, as green, red, white and blue. ( Source: Zohar -
Chapter 57 )
• For this reason the Holy One (blessed be He) is called powerful, great, mighty and terrible,
which four names are symbolized by the four letters of the tetragrammaton, IHVH, which
includes all names.
These four forms are graven on the divine chariot, thus: on the right side, the face of a man;
on the left, that of an eagle; on the front, of a lion; and behind, of an ox. These forms are
likewise graven on the four quarters of the world. ( Source: Zohar - Chapter 2 )
Although the Zohar does not explicitly define the ranking and ordering sequence of the symbols we
may identify a Father (first character Y, green, lion), a Mother (second character H, red, ox) and a
Son (third character V, white, eagle) and a fourth character H (blue, man) to be arranged in the 4
cardinal quarters (in analogy to the Sventovid-sculpture as documented by Saxo Grammaticus in
Danish History).
A Father and a Mother clearly identify the 4-headed idol as an androgynous symbol and there
cannot be any doubt the androgynous deity En Soph should create an androgynous creature Adam
as an image of the androgynous "Father and Mother"-Creatorgod.
The Tetragrammaton
From Tetragrammaton-entry at Wikipedia we may learn:
The four letters or the Tretagrammaton are usually transliterated from Hebrew as:
• IHVH in Latin,
• JHWH in German, French and Dutch, and
• YHWH in English.
The third character "V" respectively "W" may be a placeholder for "O"/"U" vowel (see mater
lectionis).
Most commonly, yud ? indicates i or e, while vav ? indicates o or u.
Wikipedia's entry: Mater lectionis
In the spelling of Hebrew and some other Semitic languages, Matres lectionis (Latin "mothers of
reading", singular form: mater lectionis, Hebrew: ??? ???????? mother reading), refers to the use of
certain consonants to indicate a vowel. The letters that do this in Hebrew are ? aleph, ? he, ? waw
(or vav) and ? yod (or yud). The yod and waw in particular are more often vowels than they are
consonants. In Arabic, the matres lectionis (though they are much less often referred to thus) are alif
?, waw ?, and ya' ?.
IU
If the third character "V" respectively "W" may be a placeholder for "O"/"U" vowel, the
Tetragrammaton may just as well reduce to the basic androgynous IU-core, in which the first
character "I" is a male and the third character "V" (or "U") represents the female element. A core IU
in a divine name directly refers to IU-piter's core "IU" and Tuisco's core "UI", which both are
equivalent androgynous symbols.
This thesis however contradicts to the Zohar's explanation, in which "I" is the male and "H"
represents the female element. Both letters "H" (He) in the Tetragrammaton do not seem to
contribute to the androgynous symbolism. Authors who define the Tetragrammaton's letter "H" as a

female symbol already lost the key to symbolism, which has happened in the web-version of the
Zohar and in the Cabbala by Papus.
In contrast Blavatsky correctly interpreted the androgynous symbolism in JHVH, as she writes in
the Secret Doctrine:
Yet identical with the sacred name Jehovah . . . which written in unpointed Hebrew with
four letters, is J-E-V-E or JHVH (the H being merely an aspirate and the same as E).
This process leaves us the two letters I and V (in another form U);

2. A History of the Conquest of Peru – William H. Prescott (1847)
• Volume: 416 pages
• Reprint: Mentor / Ancient Civilisations
• Online: The History of the Conquest of Peru / William Hickling Prescott
Notes
• Feather work (113)
• The absence of money (115)
• Gold – Curimayo (115)
• Balsa (158)
• Copper and traces of tin (114)
But the material on which they relied for the execution of their most difficult tasks
was formed by combining a very small portion of tin with copper. This composition
gave a hardness to the metal which seems to have been little inferior to that of steel.
…
It is worthy of remark, that the Egyptians, the Mexicans, and the Peruvians, in their
progress towards civilization, should never have detected the use of iron, which lay
around them in abundance; and that they should each, without any knowledge of the
other, have found a substitute for it in such a curious composition of metals as gave
to their tools almost the temper of steel; 21 a secret that has been lost — or, to speak
more correctly, has never been discovered — by the civilized European.
• The footnotes are a remarkable section with a great number of detailed information, e.g.:
– quipo knot-record (392, note 16)
– coca (392, note 17)
– four species of cameloids (393, note 18)
– balsas (395, note 24)
– isle of Puna (396, note 26)
– Atahuallpa's ransom room (page 400, footnote 38)
– Atahuallpa's ransom (note 39)
– causeway of Anta (401, note 42)

3. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases - by P.M. Roget
(1852)
• edited: Betty Kirkpatrick
• publisher:Penguin Books (1987)
• 1086 pages
• ISBN: 0-14-051204-7
Structure
The Thesaurus is divided into 6 classes.
The first 3 classes cover the external world:
1. Abstract relations
2. Space
3. Matter
The last three classes deal with the internal world of human beings.
1. Intellect: the exercise of the mind
2. Volition: the exercise of the will
3. Emotion, religion and morality
Notes:
• The Thesaurus has been applied by Dylan Thomas for writing poetry. Dylan Thomas used
the Thesaurus's numbering system to keep track of references.
• The thesaurus does contain a number of shortcuts, e.g. referencing to, but not explaining:
IOU ( From the pronunciation of "I owe you", not the initial letters. the phonetically
identical expression for: "I Owe You" ) (page 385, "title deed") seems to be one of the oldest
English shortcuts.
• A number of other shortcuts may be expanded:
2Bornot2B = to be or not to be
U2 = you too / you two
U2 4U 2C = U2 for you to see
Ceefax = see facts
XQQ = Excuse
AYZ = a wise head
FEG = effigy
XLNC = excellency
OICYRNT = Oh, I see you are empty
in Dutch: (Ivo de Wijs in De Tijd van 24/8/1990)

KU2R = kutweer
onverw8 = onverwacht
dol3st = doldriest
bakboord3m = bakboordriem (nog beter is: bakboor3m)
bees80 = beestachtig
• As an example for the lunacy of English spelling, George Bernard Shaw "designed" the
word Ghoti.

He suggested that the gh-combination is pronounced like f in cough,
the vowel o is pronounced like a short i in the word women,
and the ti -combination is pronounced like sh in the word nation.
Hence ghoti is pronounced fish.
• Alternative: Roget's II Desk Thesaurus
- Synonyms and antonyms -
Home, School and Office Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company (1992)
ISBN: 0-395-62027-9
containing an entry for "man", explaining the word as a neutral human being, without
restricting to male or female sex.
man noun
1. HUMAN BEING.
2. MANKIND.
Man noun POLICEMAN.
which may explain a creation legend in which an androgynous man "Adam" has been split
up into a male and a female person.

4. Phallic Worship - by Hodder M. Westropp (1870)
• (online) published by Forgotten Books
• first publishedin 1870
• ISBN 1606200437, 9781606200438
• Size: 14 pages
Notes
• Two causes: generative (active, male) power and productive (passive, female) power rule the
world (page 2)
• By structural design of the human brain and psyche these ideas arise independently in
various parts of the world (2)
• Plutarch: the sky performs as a father (-> male) and the earth like a mother (-> female)
• Egypt: ->> Khem (father) and Maut (Mother)
• Hindoos: Purusha (male) and Prakriti (female) -> manifestation of one God (page 3).
Lingam and Yoni (page 7)
• Assyrians: Bel (male) and Mylitta (female)
• Assyrians: Vul (male) and Shala (female)
• Phoenician: Ouranos (mal) and Ghe (female) (page 4)
• Greeks and Romans: Jupiter (the sky) and Juno (the earth) (page 5)
Lingam and Cteis (page 7)
• Teutons and Scandinavian: the phallic god Fricco is corresponding to the Roman god
Priapus - in Spain the phallic god Hortanes (page 7)
• St. Augustin: The phallus was consacrated in the temple of Liber (father), the vulva in the
temple of Libera (mother). (page 5)
• Central America: Famagostad (male) and Zipaltonal (female) (page 5)
• Tahitians: Taroataihetounou (male) and Tepapa (female)
• Tahitians: the sun and the moon were gods and they had begotten the stars. Eclipses were the
time of their copulation (page 5)
• New Zealand: Rangi (heaven, father) and Papa (Earth, mother).
• Reproductive symbols: Phallus and Cteis, Lingam and Yoni (page 6)
• According to Ptolemy Phallus has been used as a symbol in: Assyria, Persia.
According to Jerome Baal-Peor in Syria was represented with a phallus in his mouth. The
Jews (Ezekiel xvi 17) are manufacturing phalli of gold en silver (page 7).
• Phallic worship in Mexico, Peru and Haiti (page 7)
• Phallic worship still in Yucatan, Panuco, Tlascala, India and Tibet (page 7)
• Phallic worship at the Pacific Islands of Mariana: deity Tinas (page 8)
• Overview of male deities documented at page 8
• Swearing an oath is to be confirmed by laying a hand on the membrum virile (page 10)
• Dissolute morals: More enlightened times are more corrupt (11)
• Phallic worship arises if progeny has priority (page 13)

5. The Secret Doctrine - by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1888)
• Online Link to The Secret Doctrine
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Vol. 1 of 2: ISBN 1605065455, 9781605065458
• Vol. 1 of 2: ISBN 160620131X, 9781606201312
• First published: 1888
Notes
Androgynous
• Kwan-Shai-Yin is identical with, and an equivalent of the Sanskrit Avalokiteshwara, and as

such he is an androgynous deity, like the Tetragrammaton and all the Logoi* of antiquity. It
is only by some sects in China that he is anthropomorphized and represented with female
attributes,** when, under his female aspect, he becomes Kwan-Yin, the goddess of mercy,
called the "Divine Voice."*** The latter is the patron deity of Thibet and of the island of
Puto in China, where both deities have a number of monasteries.**** (See Part II. Kwan-
Shai-Yin and Kwan-yin.) (Page 112)
• In the Egyptian as in the Indian theogony there was a concealed deity, the ONE, and the
creative, androgynous god. Thus Shoo is the god of creation and Osiris is, in his original
primary form, the "god whose name is unknown." (See Mariette's Abydos II., p. 63, and Vol.
III., pp. 413, 414, No. 1122.) (Page 115)
• According to Manu, Hiranyagarbha is Brahma the first male formed by the undiscernible
Causeless CAUSE in a "Golden Egg resplendent as the Sun," as states the Hindu Classical
Dictionary. "Hiranyagarbha" means the golden, or rather the "Effulgent Womb" or Egg. The
meaning tallies awkwardly with the epithet of "male." Surely the esoteric meaning of the
sentence is clear enough. In the Rig Veda it is said:-- "THAT, the one Lord of all beings . . . .
the one animating principle of gods and man," arose, in the beginning, in the Golden Womb,
Hiranyagarbha -- which is the Mundane Egg or sphere of our Universe. That Being is surely
androgynous, and the allegory of Brahma separating into two and recreating in one of his
halves (the female Vach) himself as Viraj, is a proof of it. (Page 127)
• * The sentence in the Sepher Jezirah and elsewhere: "Achath-Ruach-Elohim-Chiim" denotes
the Elohim as androgynous at best, the feminine element almost predominating, as it would
read: "ONE is She the Spirit of the Elohim of Life." As said above, Echath (or Achath) is
feminine, and Echod (or Achod) masculine, both meaning ONE. (Page 167)
• This stanza is translated from the Chinese text, and the names, as the equivalents of the
original terms, are preserved. The real esoteric nomenclature cannot be given, as it would
only confuse the reader. The Brahmanical doctrine has no equivalent to these. Vach seems,
in many an aspect, to approach the Chinese Kwan-yin, but there is no regular worship of
Vach under this name in India, as there is of Kwan-Yin in China. No exoteric religious
system has ever adopted a female Creator, and thus woman was regarded and treated, from
the first dawn of popular religions, as inferior to man. It is only in China and Egypt that
Kwan-Yin and Isis were placed on a par with the male gods. Esotericism ignores both sexes.
Its highest Deity is sexless as it is formless, neither Father nor Mother; and its first
manifested beings, celestial and terrestrial alike, become only gradually androgynous and

finally separate into distinct sexes. (Page 172)
• The ancients taught the, so to speak, auto-generation of the Gods: the one divine essence,
unmanifested, perpetually begetting a second-self, manifested, which second-self,
androgynous in its nature, gives birth in an immaculate way to everything macro- and micro-
cosmical in this universe. (Page 432).
• Aristophanes (in Plato's Banquet), speaks of a race androgynous and with round bodies.
(Page 839).
• In the Book of Enoch we have Adam,** the first divine androgyne, (Page 869).
• The compound name of Jehovah, or Jah-Hovah, meaning male life and female life -- first
androgynous, then separated into sexes -- is used in this sense in Genesis from ch. v.
onwards. As the author of "The Source of Measures" says (p. 159): "The two words of
which Jehovah is composed make up the original idea of male-female, as the birth
originators"; for the Hebrew letter Jod was the membrum virile and Hovah was Eve, the
mother of all living, or the procreatrix, Earth and Nature. The author believes, therefore, that
"It is seen that the perfect one" (the perfect female circle or Yoni, 20612, numerically), "as
originator of measures, takes also the form of birth-origin, as Hermaphrodite one; hence the
phallic form and use." (Page 870).
• Every nation held its first god and gods to be androgynous; nor could it be otherwise, since
they regarded their distant primeval progenitors, their dual-sexed ancestors, as divine Beings
and Gods, just as do the Chinese to this day. And they were divine in one sense, as also were
their first human progeny, the "mind-born" primitive humanity, which were most assuredly
bi-sexuals as all the more ancient symbols and traditions show. (Page 875).
• Meshia and Meshiane were but a single individual with the old Persians. "They also taught
that man was the product of the tree of life, growing in androgynous pairs, till they were
separated at a subsequent modification of the human form.**" (Page 878).
• *** Eugibinus, a Christian, and the Rabbis Samuel, Manasseh ben Israel, and Maimonides
taught that "Adam had two faces and one person, and from the beginning he was both male
and female -- male on one side and female on the other (like Manu's Brahma), but
afterwards the parts were separated." The one hundred and thirty-ninth Psalm of David
recited by Rabbi Jeremiah ben Eliazar is evidence of this. "Thou hast fashioned me behind
and before," not beset as in the Bible, which is absurd and meaningless, and this shows, as
Prof. Wilder thinks, "that the primeval form of mankind was androgynous." (Page 879).
YHVH
• A charming allegory is found in the Zohar, one which unveils better than anything ever did
the true character of Jehovah or YHVH in the primitive conception of the Hebrew Kabalists.
It is now found in the philosophy of I'bn Gebirol's Kabbalah, translated by Isaac Myer. (Page
427).
• Moreover, in the Kabala the name YHVH (or Jehovah) expresses a He and a She, male and
female, two in one, or Hokhmah and Binah, and his, or rather their Shekinah or synthesizing
spirit (grace), which makes again of the Duad a Triad. This is demonstrated in the Jewish
Liturgy for Pentecost, and the prayer, "In the name of Unity, of the Holy and Blessed Hu
(He), and His Shekinah, the Hidden and Concealed Hu, blessed be YHVH (the Quaternary)
for ever." "Ha is said to be masculine and YAH feminine, together they make the [[hebrew]]
i.e., one YHVH. One, but of a male-female nature. (Page 664).

• As various writers have shown, and as brutally stated in Hargrave Jennings' Phallicism (p.
67) "We know from the Jewish records that the Ark contained a table of stone. . . . that stone
was phallic, and yet identical with the sacred name Jehovah . . . which written in unpointed
Hebrew with four letters, is J-E-V-E or JHVH (the H being merely an aspirate and the same
as E). This process leaves us the two letters I and V (in another form U); then if we
place the I in the U we have the 'Holy of Holies'; we also have the Lingha and Yoni and
Argha of the Hindus, the Isvara and 'supreme Lord'; and here we have the whole secret of its
mystic and arc-celestial import, confirmed in itself by being identical with the Linyoni (?) of
the Ark of the Covenant." (Page 1246).
Red and Blue

• ** Rudra, as a Kumara, is Lilalohita -- red and blue. (Page 943).
See keynotes to The Tetragrammaton

6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – by James Joyce (1916)
• Editor: The Viking Press
• Initial line: Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes (Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII, 188)
• Structure: 5 Chapters titled: I, II, III, IV, V and A note on the Text.
Notes
• The meaning of the Tower of Ivory – but protestants could not understand it (42)
• Tower of Ivory - House of Gold (43)
• Napoleons happiest day of his life was the day of his first holy communion (47)
• Jesuit Motto = A.M.D.G.3 - Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (70)
• This fellow has herisy in his essay (79)
• Greatest writer: Cardinal Newman (80)
• Best Poet: Lord Tennyson (80) / Byron (81)
• Ejaculations (147)
• Les Jupes (152)
• A girl like a beautiful seabird (171)
• Her image has passed into his soul forever (172)
• You are an artist (185)
• The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful (185)
• Like Ignatius he was lame (186)
• He is a ballocks – the only English dual number (231)
3 It once was common for students at Jesuit schools and universities to write the initials at the tops of their pages, to
remind them that even their schoolwork ought to be dedicated to the glory of God. - Ad maiorem Dei gloriam

7. Ulysses - by James Joyce (1922)
• The first edition has been published in 1922
• Foreword: by Morris L. Ernst and the decision of the U.S. District Court
• Version: complete and unabridged with marginal page numbers to the 1934 first American
edition
• Publisher: The modern Library New York (1961)
• Size 783 pages
• ISBN: --
Structure
The book does not provide in a table of contents, but the reader may identify 3 structural "chapters".
1. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan ... (page 2)
2.
3. Preparatory to Anything else... (page 613)
In fact Ulysses may have been designed according to the following 18-episode-scheme
(copied from Utopia, Technical University Eindhoven, June 1969, and to be completed some day..):
part of the
Title Scene Hour Topic Colour Symbol Style
body
Narrative
Telemachus The Tower 8 AM Theology White, gold Heir
(young)
Catechism
Nestor The School 10 AM History Brown Horse
(personal)
Monologue
Proteus The Strand 11 AM Philology Green Tide
(male)
Narrative
Calypso The House 8 AM Kidney Economics Orange Nymph
(mature)
Botany,
Lotus-eaters The Bath 10 AM Genitals Eucharist Narcism
Chemistry
The
Hades 11 AM Heart Religion White/Black Caretaker Incubism
Graveyard
The
Aeolus 12 noon Lungs Rhetoric Red Editor Enthymemic
Newspaper
Lestrygonians The Lunch 1 PM Esophagus Architecture Constables Peristaltic
Scylla and Startford,
The Library 2 PM Brain Literature Dialectic
Charybdis London
Wandering
The Streets 3 PM Blood Mechanics Citizens Labyrinth
Rocks
The Concert Fuga per
Sirens 4 PM Ear Music Barmaids
Room canonum
Cyclops The Tavern 5 PM Muscle Politics Fenian Gigantism
Tumescence,
Nausicaa The Rocks 8 PM Eye, nose Painting Grey, blue Virign
detumescence
Oxen of the Embryonic
The Hospital 10 PM Womb Medicine White Mothers
sun development
Locomotor
Circe The Brothel 12 midnight Magic Whore Hallucination
apparatus

Narrative
Eumaeus The Shelter 1 AM Nerves Navigation Sailors
(old)
Catechism
Ithaca The House 2 AM Skeleton Science Comets
(impersonal)
Monologue
Penelope The Bed Flesh Earth
(female)
Notes to the manuscript

• Bloomsday is 16th of June, 1904
• Joyce worked for 6-7 years on the manuscript: Trieste-Z?rich-Paris, 1914-1921
• The "monologue int?rieur" is used to express a plain coding of someone's thoughts: a
"stream of consciousness".
Notes on Molly's Monologue

As a member of the OpenOffice-forum I remembered Ulysses for it's extremely long paragraph in
the last chapter of Molly's monologue.
In fact Joyce is using the paragraph (which will not allow the lines to prematurely break up and start
new lines in the book) to describe the mechanisms in the human thinking process: in a worst case
situation thinking is expanding without any structure and it will unload and generate an endless
stream of unwinding thoughts...
In April 2007 I used the example to demonstrate the need for editing extremely long paragraphs in a
test-processor: OpenOffice-writer.
Due to an early design-error OpenOffice-writer is unable to process paragraphs of more than 65.535
characters.
Copy-/pasting the contents from Word to a Writer-document results in a Writer-document
containing 65759 characters
(including one big paragraph containing 65535 characters).
Responding to a user's remark:

Using a generous 8 characters per word ( in my old typing class I think we used 5) that works
out to 8,000 word paragraph which is about 7-8 pages. Even the most long-winded academic
writer should have at least one paragraph every 4 or 5 pages.
I responded:
Ok, just for fun I checked the most voluminous paragraph in literature, which is of course
Molly's monologue at the very end of "Ulysses" by James Joyce.
I took the unabridged manuscript with marginal page numbers to the 1934 first American
Edition,
started counting at the line: "Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask...."
and stopped at:"... his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes".
I identified Molly's paragraph from page 738 to 783 (in US-original: page 722->768) and
statistically found 10-12 words/line and 43 lines/page.
Adding up and using your conservative counting number of 5 characters per word
(Joyce prefers short words between seldom used very long expressions) I found a paragraph
length of:

45 pages x 43 lines/page x 10 words/line x 5 characters/word = 96.750 characters
Even conservatively counting we will be reaching the 64 kCharacter limit.
My conclusion: Joyce would not have been able to use OOo-writer for his masterpiece
Ulysses!
We do not have to edit Ulysses any more, but it will be difficult for students in literature to
add Molly's paragraph as a quotation to their OOo-scripts
Regards -Hans-
Strictly spoken this section is provided with end-of-paragraph-signs; there is a period and an end-of-
paragraph at the third line of page 759 (in US-original: page 743). To me as an average reader this
period more or less breaks the stream of consciousness... I guess the period has to be used for
technical (IT-processing) reasons. If anyone knows please respond to clarify the situation.

8. Jacob's Room - by Virginia Woolf (1922)
• Edition: reprint
• Published by Triad, 1976
• ISBN: 0586044450, 9780586044452
• Size: 173 pages
• Category: Novel
Recension
The novel describes Jacob Flanders growing up between several relatives and others, as others see
him and as he sees them, explaining "Nobody sees anyone as he is". In the flow of reading the novel
clearly sketches the environment and the person's character.
Most persons are lonesome individuals: his mother Betty, captain Barfoot and Jacob's friend
Bonamy.
Obviously a lonely Jacob Flanders has been killed in Flanders.
"The guns? said Betty Flanders, half asleep, getting out of bed and going to the window, which was
decorated with a fringe of dark leaves.
'Not at this distance,' she thought. 'It is the sea.'
Again, far away, she heard the dull sound, as if nocturnal women were beating great carpets. There
was Morty lost, and Seabrook dead; her sons fighting for their country. But were the chickens safe?
Was that someone moving downstairs? Rebecca with the toothache? No. The nocturnal women
were beating great carpets. Her hens shifted slightly on their perches".
Notes
While reading this novel I noticed the concept of Beauty which seems to occur at Jacob's age of 22
(page 69) and has not been found in the first part of the book. Obviously Virginia Woolf is
spreading her definition of beauty over the contents of the book. At this stage beauty must have
been important to her and she describes it as dumb, transient, a compromise, an inheritance and a
barrier, a bore...
• Beauty goes hand in hand with stupidity (page 79).
• Beauty is always dumb (page 93).
• Male beauty in association with female beauty breeds in the onlooker a sense of fear (page
93).
• As for the beauty of women, it is like the light on the sea, never constant to a single wave.
They all have it, they all lose it. Now she is dull and thick as bacon; now transparent as a
hanging glass. The fixed faces are the dull ones (page 111-112).
• And forever the beauty of young men seems to be set in smoke, however lustily they chase
footballs, or drive cricket balls, dance, run, or stride along roads. Possibly they are soon to
lose it (page 114).
• In Greece: everything is appropriate to manly beauty (page 133).
• In Olympia: How beautiful the evening was! and her (Sandra's) beauty was its beauty. She
would write it down. And moving to the table where her husband sat reading she lent her
chin in her hands and thought of the peasants, of suffering, ofher own beauty, of the
inevitable compromise, and how she would write it down (page 137).
• 'Everything seems to mean so much,' said Sandra. But with the sound of her own voice the
spell was broken. She forgot the peasants. Only there remained with her a sense of her own

beauty, and in front, luckily, there was a looking-glass.
• 'I am very beautiful,' she thought. She shifted her hat slightly. Her husband saw her looking
in the glass; and agreed that beauty is important; it is an inheritance; one cannot ignore it.
But it is a barrier; it is in fact rather a bore. So he drank his soup; and kept his eyes fixed
upon the window (page 138).
In human life beauty seems to be:
• a relative concept (Socrates has an ugly face, but a beautiful mind).
• a transient like the flowering flowers in nature, just another aid in evolution to mix up the
correct genes...
• dangerous and a barrier as the useless energy for conservation leaves little time for study and
education.
• evidently lost too soon and ultimately reversing the beautiful to the ugly.
It may even be advantageous to be ugly form the very beginning...

9. Zeus by Arthur Bernard Cook (1925)
• Sub-title: a Study in Ancient Religion Vol 2 Part I
• Web-version: Zeus a Study in Ancient Religion Vol 2 Part I
• size: 858 pages
• Cambridge University Press
Notes
The book Zeus by Arthur Bernard Cook (1925) still is a good lecture with numerous excellent
graphics, although it is being loaded with lots of footnotes.
The book documents the historical impact of Roman/Greek trading and the religious boundary
conditions of Janus/Zan as the world's support pillars, their successors Jou- respectively Jeu-
piter/Zeus, who gradually have been replaced by younger successors.
My notes have been documented in 7 extra files:
• Notes to "Zeus" by Arthur Bernard Cook (1925) published 27/5:2014, consisting of
1. The E-Inscription at the Omphalos of Delphi - Notes (1)
2. In the Name of Zeus - Notes (2)
3. The Holiest Spot in All Hellas - Notes (3)
4. Januslike Deities - Notes (4)
5. Amber Trading - Notes (5)
6. Retrospect - Notes (6)
7. Synthesis of the Data in 'Zeus' by Arthur B. Cook (1925)

10. The Bridge of Saint Louis the King (T. Wilder, 1927)
• Author Thornton Wilder
• Size 59 pages
Notes4
The first time I did read Thornton Wilder's “The Bridge of Saint Louis the King” I unfortunately
and fortunately happened to pick up the German translation.
Keywords in Th. Wilder's “The Bridge of Saint Louis the King” 5

This version fortunately had been followed by an analysis by Helmut Viebruck 6, who claims that
Thornton Wilder uses explicit verbal expressions to control our interpretation of the novel's text. He
also gives some samples of the keyword's usage.
The explicit keyword Helmut Viebruck specifies is “surprise”, which in English language may be
used in various ways for passive and active actions. In other languages the word “surprise” may
translate to different wordings, in which Thornton Wilder's concept may be lost. And unfortunately
German also uses different translations for “surprise”, which invited me to read the book in its
original version English.
Chapter Page (1→56) Quotation “surprise” Number
1 5 ...so surprising that... 1
1 6 .. to surprise the ... 2
1 6 ...could surprise His... 3
2 14 ...poet?—surprising through... 4
2 16 ... by surprise, hours ... 5
2 19 ... to surprise, if ... 6
3 23 ...suddenly surprised and... 7
3 30 ...fishermen surprised him ... 8
3 33 ... be surprised at ... 9
3 37 ... very surprising to ... 10
4 44 ...so surprised. One... 11
1: “Surprise”-Quotations in Th. Wilder's “The Bridge of Saint Louis the King”
4 The Keyword „Surprise“ in in Th. Wilder's “the Bridge of Saint L...

5 All keywords (“Surprise”-Quotations) by Helmut Viebrock have been highlighted in green, other surprise-references
have been marked yellow.
6 Fischer, ISBN 3-596-20001-6

Surprise in Chapter 1
In the first chapter brother Juniper already uses the word “surprise” to express “insight” into life and
death:
“surprise”-quotation #2
But the divine revelation clearly may be identified in the word “surprise” to express a discovery:
In reading the novel we observe the communication between survivors and victims, which often in
retrospect seems to be ruled by misunderstanding and corrections. The bridge between the living
and the dead must carefully be built by language as a standard communication.
In Part II Thornton Wilder concentrates on written correspondence, especially between Doña María
and her daughter Clara. And also rereading a letter, written by her companion Pepita (but addressed
to the Abbess) plays an important role in understanding Doña María's problems in communication
with her daughter. In this case surprise describes a discovery (to unveil):
Two days later, returning to Lima, both Doña María and Pepita are on the bridge when it collapses.
In Part III the twin brothers Esteban and Manuel are scribes for transcribing comedies, ballads for
the crowds, advertisements, etc.
In their youth they are so close that they have developed a secret language that only they
understand. No one ever succeeded in telling the boys apart, except Camila Perichole, who
identifies Esteban as the “younger” of the twins.
One of the youngster dies and his brother is to become a victim of the collapse. However the reader
is unsure whether Esteban or Manuel has been killed at the bridge's destruction. In contrast to the
second chapter, which had been devoted to letters, the third chapter seems to concentrate on
copying, security, secrets and twin communication.
Now the surviving twin brother (Esteban?, but named Manuel) tries to commit suicide, but the
captain advises him to push on:
In part IV Thornton Wilder describes theater and methods of teaching. As a teacher uncle Pio acts as
Camila Perichole's agent and helps her to develop to a great actress in the Old Comedy by
expressing perpetual disappointment with her performances.
Uncle Pio understands his mistake in applying perpetual disappointment. He begs her to allow him
to take one of her children (Jaime) and teach her son as he taught her. They leave the next morning
for Lima. Uncle Pio and Jaime are the #4 respectively #5 victims on the bridge to Lima when it
collapses.

According to Helmut Viebrock Thornton Wilder reuses the expression in “surprise”-quotation #11
in “The Ides of March” to symbolize the divine illness of Julius Caesar.
In part V the author describes the Abbess as the central link interconnecting the fate of Pepita, the
twin brothers, Camila Perichole, her son and uncle Pio, Doña Clara and Doña María.
The novel ends with the Abbess's observation: "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead
and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
A bridge as a communication link

The mechanism of love may be interpreted as bridging communication links, which need to be
developed by tools such as writing, telepathy and teaching. In the end the bridges are to be lost by
death or - in the model of the suspending bridges – by a physical collapse.
Copyright problems in publishing this essay

Scribd's Copyright Filter filtered my manuscript (including some of the novel's lines with the
keyword “surprise” and “surprised”) out and refused to publish this essay 7, which invited me to
remove all links and original quotations. This merely requires some searching the novel's text for
the keywords. The quotations for “surprise” and “surprised” have been numbered in their order of
appearance ranging from #1...#11, which makes their identification possible without infringing the
copyright (see the overview in the appendix).
7 This is a notification that Scribd’s BookID copyright protection system has temporarily disabled access to "The
Keyword „Surprise“ in Thornton Wilder's “the Bridge of S... L... R..”" (id: 271257330).

11. Cities of the Plain - by Marcel Proust (1928)
• Cities of the Plain - by Marcel Proust (1928)
• Publisher: The Modern Library (1928 / 1955)
• Translator's Dedication: To Richard and Myrtle Kurt and Their Creator
• Author: Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
• Original Title: Sodome et Gomorrhe Part I (1921) and Part II (1922)
• Size: 350 (Part I) & 384 pages (Part II)
Structure
• Part I: Chapters I and II
• Part II: Chapters II, III and IV
Notes:
• Marcel Proust starts his book Cities of the Plain by quoting in Part I: "Introducing the men-
women, descendants of those of the inhabitants of Sodom who were spared by the fire from
heaven".
"La femme aura Gomorrhe et l'homme aura Sodome" - Alfred de Vigny (page 1)
• Proust refers to homosexual activity as: "inversion".
• Explanation for a number of town names (part II, page 47->51)
• Amfreville-la-Bigot (part II, page 49)
Introduction to Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust

in which Marcel Proust (1871-1922) describes the mechanisms for separating the vital animal
genes from premature consummation by mechanical and psychic methods, which may have been
coded into the name of the sky-deity "Dyaeus", consisting of a male identifier "y", an isolating
barrier "ae" and a female symbol "u".
The Cities of the Plain starts with Marcel's observations of the courting flowers as a metamorphose-
model for the courting youngsters he described in "Within a Budding Grove". The cities of the plain
are Sodome et Gomorrhe, both condemned by the Hebrew God and the Church).
Mixed up with extremely long sentences and observations of the Dreyfus case, the Boer wars, the
concept of man-woman and homosexuality he develops a marvellous sequence of observations
towards metamorphoses and a model of human courtship.
Impressed by the detailed comparison of flowering plants with flowering human beings I
remembered the oil-painting I created 2004 for the exhibition "Metamorphoses" at Weissach im Tal,
which had been flowering beings as well...
The Intro to the Cities immediately starts with an observation of the plants and animals, but
concentrates on human behaviour, in which mothers expose their offspring in the courtyard...
-Page 2-
I was peering through the shutters of the staircase window at the Duchess's little tree
and at the precious plant, exposed in the courtyard with that insistence with which
mothers "bring out" their marriable offspring, and asking myself whether the unlikely
insect would come, by a providential hazard, to visit the offered and neglected pistil.

We recognize the marvellous idea of the word courtyard, which seems to be used for "courting" a
girl by the boy's attention. Marcel Proust leaves no doubt he is comparing the courtship of flowering
plants with the flowering damsels.
-Page 3-
Then, realising that no one could see me, I decided not to let myself be disturbed again,
for the fear of missing, should the miracle be fated to occur, the arrival, almost beyond
the possibility of hope (across so many obstacles of distance, of adverse risks, of
dangers), of the insect sent from so far as ambassador to the virgin who had so long be
waiting for him to appear. I knew that this expectancy was no more passive than in the
male flower, whose stamens had spontaneously curved so that the insect might more
easily receive their offering; similarly the female flower that stood here, if the insect
came, would coquettishly arch their styles, and, to be more effectively penetrated by
him, would imperceptibly advance, like a hypocritical but ardent damsel, to meet him
half-way.
Now Proust recognises the complex mechanism of the most marvellous flowers in helping the
insect to insert the carriers for the unique genes and chromosomes at the optimized location.
Whereas in human life the girl's tiny eye-pupils select the partner the female orchid cannot select
her partner and is completely dependant of the insect's senses, which -of course- requires a more or
less equal attractiveness for the male and the female flowers.
Proust goes as far as comparing the man's humming sound of satisfaction in his courtship with the
humming of a bumble-bee, which -of course- is entering the court-yard "for courting". The flower
-of course- is to be an orchid, the most beautiful and exclusive of all flowers at the summit of
attractiveness. And we remember good old Darwin recognized the optimized attractiveness of
flowering and girls as the optimizing process in evolution. Nature selects the best and the fittest.
The bee will have to concentrate on the job to avoid the death of the virgins, whatever may happen
on the way between the male and the female flowers.
-Page 8-
At the same instant, just as M. de Charlus disappeared through the gate humming like a
great bumble-bee, another, a real bee this time, came into the courtyard. For all I knew
this might be the one so long awaited by the orchid, which was coming to bring it that
rare pollen without it must die like a virgin.
Marcel correctly write "she" for the bee, which is a female word in French language but the
translator ignores the fact that the bees visiting the flowers are female insects and (for dramatic
purposes?) describes the bee as a male fertilizer.
I had lost the sight of the bee. I did not know whether he was the insect that the orchid
needed, but I had no longer any doubt, in the case of an extremely rare insect and a
captive flower, of the miraculous possibility of their conjunction.
There is plenty of evidence of Marcel's thoughtdreams over homosexuality in nature's fertilising

role.
-Page 33-
The boy who has been reading erotic poetry or looking at indecent pictures, if he the
presses his body against a schoolfellow's, images himself only to be communing with
him in an identical desire for a woman.
Now Proust observes the intended isolation of the male and female elements, which must be

separated and have to wait for the humming-birds to transport the pollen. To me there is no doubt
the ancient peoples recognized the isolation of the male and female elements in mankind and
transformed the isolation in a androgynous Creation Legend (as documented by Plato) and
androgynous sculptures like the Hermes of Roquepertuse. Of course the opposite position of male
and female faces - symbolising the isolation of the genes - has been designed to optimize evolution
and had to be considered as a divine concept in creation.
-Page 38-
Like so many creatures of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, like the plant, which
would produce vanilla but, because in its structure the male organ is divided by a
partition from from the female, remains sterile unless the humming-birds or certain tiny
bees convey the pollen from one to another, or man fertilises them by artificial means...
But then he eliminates the bees and identifies the wind as a sense-less fertiliser, carrying the lightest
pollen to the most distant flowers, which will need some device to stop the forbidden self-
fertilisation...
-Page 39-
If it is the wind that must provide for the transportation of the pollen, she (nature)
makes that pollen so much more simply detachable from the male, so much more easily
arrested in its flight by the female flower, by eliminating the secretion of nectar which is
no longer of any use since there is no insect to be attracted, and that the flower may be
kept free for the pollen which it needs, which can fructify only in itself, makes its secrete
a liquid which renders it immune to all other pollens.
Marcel even identifies the hermaphrodites fertilising other hermaphrodites, providing the same kind
of device to stop the forbidden self-fertilisation...
-Page 41-
Such as we find in so many hermaphrodite flowers, and even in certain hermaphrodite
animals, such as the snail, which cannot be fertilised by themselves, but can by other
hermaphrodites.
Proust also identifies the idea of parental decisions as one of the selective filters for the genes. And
if a parent is to shut the eyes, the blinded partner may as well feel like marrying a veiled bride,
whose characteristic qualities are not be checked by her husband or anybody else involved...
-Page 43-
If I had a daughter to marry and was one of the rich myself, I would give her to the
Baron with my eyes shut.
In the end Marcel is unable to observe the fertilising process as the introduction closes with a
statement:
-Page 45-
I as distressed to find that I had, by my engrossment in the Jupien-Charlus conjunction,
missed perhaps an opportunity of witnessing the fertilisation of the blossom by the bee.

12. The Classic Works - by Virginia Woolf (1929)
• Publisher: Granada Publishing, Panther (1977)
• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Titles
• A Room of One's Own
• Orlando
• Jacob's Room
• Mrs Dalloway
• The Years
Notes to A Room of One's Own (1929) ISBN 0 586 04449 3

• - 6 chapters - (based on two papers read in October 1928)
• A woman needs money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction (page 6)
• Veiling yourself by using the name of a man (49)
• Coleridge: a great mind is androgynous (94)
• woman must have intercourse with the man in her (94)
It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized (94)
• Shakespeare's mind has been androgynous (94)
Androgynous: Shakespeare, Keats, Sterne, Cowper, Lamb, Coleridge, Proust. (98/99)

13. Axel's Castle – Edmund Wilson (1931)
• Subtitle: A Study In The Imaginative Literature Of 1870-1930
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, N.Y.
• based on lectures - 15 years earlier held by Edmund Wilson's teacher (and his master of
criticism) Christian Gauss (→ dated ca. 1916).
• Size: 319 pages
• Concept: a bundle of essays as an introduction to the literature of the 20th century with
criticism on W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude
Stein.
• The conclusive essay “Axel en Rimbaud” is based on Axël (by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-
Adam) and results in the advice for authors to follow only two courses either (1) Axel's or
(2) Rimbaud's (287 → pdf: 307).
• Axel's Castle at Internet Archive
Notes
1. Symbolism (9)
• A relevant prophet of Symbolism was Edgar Allan Poe, (page 12 → pdf: 32)
• The symbolism of the Divine Comedy is conventional, logical and definite. But the symbols
of the Symbolist school are usually chosen arbitrarily by the poet to stand for special ideas
of his own they are a sort of disguise for these ideas. "The Parnassians, for their part,"wrote
Mallarmé, "take the thing just as it is and put it before us and consequently they arc deficient
in mystery: they deprive the mind of the delicious joy of believing that it is creating. To
name an object is to do away with the three-quarters of the enjoyment of the poem which is
derived from the satisfaction of guessing little by little: to suggest it, to evoke it that is what
charms the imagination;” (page 20 → pdf: 40)
2. W.B. Yeats (26)

• The other self, the antiself or the antithetical self, as one may choose to name it, comes but
to those who are no longer deceived, whose passion is reality. (page 45 → pdf: 65)
• As a young man, Yeats frequented clairvoyants and students of Astrology and Magic;
Madame Blavatsky, the necromantic Theosophist, seems to have made upon him a
considerable impression. (page 47 → pdf: 67)
• Yeats, like Shaw a Protestant for whom the Catholic's mysticism was impossible, has in "A
Vision" made the life of humanity contingent on the movements of the stars. "The day is far
off," he concludes, "when the two halves of man can divine each its own unity in the other
as in a mirror, Sun in Moon, Moon in Sun, and so escape out of the Wheel." (page 60 →
pdf: 80)
3. Paul Valéry (64)

• Action cramps and impoverishes the mind. For by itself the mind is able to deal with an
infinite number of possibilities it is not constrained by the limitations of a field. The mind by
itself is omnipotent. And consequently the method, the theory, of doing anything is more
interesting than the thing done. (page 68 → pdf: 88)

4. T.S. Eliot (93)
5. Marcel Proust (132)

• Proust constructs a moral scheme out of phenomena whose moral values are always shifting.
(Perhaps the narrator's grandmother may be taken as playing for Proust the same role that
the speed of light does for Einstein: the single constant value which makes the rest of the
system possible!) (page 163 → pdf: 183)
• We perceive that "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu” which begins in the darkened room of
sleep, stands alone as a true dream-novel among works of social observation. (page 179 →
pdf: 199)
• Proust's novel kept him up till he had finished it; but when he had finished it, he died.(page
185 → pdf: 205)
6. James Joyce (191)

• Joyce said, in composing his books, to work on the different arts simultaneously. (page 210
→ pdf: 230)
• Joyce has as little respect as Proust for the capacities of the reader's attention; (page 215 →
pdf: 235)
• The author suggests, in connection with Valéry and Eliot, that verse itself as a literary
medium is coming to be used for fewer and fewer and for more and more special purposes,
and that it may be destined to fall into disuse. (page 221 → pdf: 241)
• Joyce's people think and feel exclusively in terms of words, for Joyce himself thinks in
terms of words.(page 225 → pdf: 245)
7. Gertrude Stein (237)

• Les chants de Maldoror (255 → pdf: 275)
8. (conclusion): Axel and Rimbaud (257)

• (Detailed) Biography of Rimbaud's life (269 → pdf: 289)
• Axel (by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam) (259 → pdf: 279)
• In the circles of the new Symbolist school, Rimbaud had become a legendary figure, an
attempt having even been made to found a new literary system on a sonnet in which he had
assigned different colors to the vowels. (280 → pdf: 300).
• If actions can be compared with writings, Rimbaud's life seems more satisfactory than the
works of his Symbolist contemporaries, than those even of most of his Symbolist
successors, who stayed at home and stuck to literature (283 → 303).
• Literature, according to Valéry, has become “an art which is based on the abuse of language
that is, it is based on language as a creator of illusions, and not on language as a means of
transmitting realities. Everything which makes a language more precise, everything which
emphasizes its practical character, all the changes which it undergoes in the interests of a
more rapid transmission and an easier diffusion, are contrary to its function as a poetic
instrument." (284 → pdf: 304).
• I agree with Valéry that "the development in Europe, since 1852, of literary works which are
extremely difficult, subtle and refined, which are written in a complicated style, and which,
for that reason, are forbidden to most readers, bears some relation to the increase in number
of literates," and to the consequent "intensive production of mediocre or average works."
(285 → pdf: 305).

• There are, as I have said, in our contemporary society, for writers who are unable to interest
themselves in it either by studying it scientifically, by attempting to reform it or by satirizing
it, only two alternative courses to follow Axel's or Rimbaud's, (287 → pdf: 307).
• The productions of Eliot, Proust and Joyce, for example, are sometimes veritable literary
museums. (290 → pdf: 310).
• All the exponents of Symholism have insisted that they were attempting to meet a need for a
new language. (294 → pdf: 314)
• Valéry himself had followed Mallarmé in an effort to push to a kind of algebra the classical
language of French poetry; Gertrude Stein has explained that her later writings are intended
to "restore its intrinsic meaning to literature"; and Joyce, in his new novel, has been
attempting to create a tongue which shall go deeper than conscious spoken speech and
follow the processes of the unconscious....(295 → pdf: 315)
Appendices
• Three Versions of a Passage from James Joyce's New Novel (Finnegans Wake) (1925-1928)
(301 → pdf: 321)
• Memoirs of Dadaism by Tristan Tzara (→ Tristan Tzara about Dada) (304 → pdf: 324)
Notes (and translations)
Index

14. Brave New World - by Aldous Huxley (1932)
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Version: Modern Flamingo Classic, published 1994
• Size: 237 pages
• Officially the page numbering starts at the manuscript “Brave New World”.
contents
• Introduction by David Bradshaw
• Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
• Quotation by Nicolas Berdiaeff (French)
• Huxley's Foreword (1946)
• Brave New World
Summary
Huxley largely describes the standard manipulation methods of religious and/or political systems,
which are well-known to the the “Alphas” (insiders/leaders), and remain hidden to the lower castes
(named “Epsilons”). The methods involve brainwashes, delusion, “soma”, satisfaction for the
laborers. An Alpha authority explains the Savage how society works. He will have to be conditioned
to feel satisfied either partially by labor or by soma. Any other behavior will lead to instability, pain
and suffering. There is no god except for the idea of absence.
God manifests himself as an absence. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific
medicine and universal happiness. People believe in God because they've been conditioned
to believe in God. Society designs its gods as just, but their code of law is dictated by the
people who organize society. For this reason Huxleys books have been banned from or
censored in many eras and countries.
In fact Huxley does not describe a Utopia nor a distopian society. In fact he describes the current
standard, an iceberg-shaped hierarchy of unknowing Epsilon masses being ruled by a minority of
Alphas, who manipulate the underdogs by somatic means (alcohol, drugs, freshly printed money,
whatever may be found...). Political ignorance seems to prevail, but nobody cares, except for an
early warning observer like Huxley. That is – in short – the Brave New World, our brave new world.
There is not too much to be discussed. If you disagree to Huxley's theses you might belong to the
ignorant lower class – and if you are sure and agree you may also be one of the Alphas. It is true
that aged people loose their violent aggression and may devote the rest of their life to Soma. It is
true that growing old leads to pain and despair. It would be fine to end life before the pains become
unbearable. Just observe what happens to your parents and you will see where the sorrow starts and
ends. There is no doubt the Utopian vision may lead us to a better control of life spans. But that is
just a minor detail of Huxley's observations. His major topic (manipulation) obviously has not been
identified as an existing mechanism.
I wonder why Huxley's book has been considered as fiction. The idea to consider it as fiction
merely proves how good the manipulation is doing its job. Society probably never changed the
basic mechanisms. In the end people look back to their life and identify how their life may have
been controlled by mechanisms like religion, payment, somatic beverages and pills. To me this is
just magic: describing a standard process as if it were utopian – and none of the readers will notice
the author merely describes reality...

Notes to the introduction
• In an essay published May 1931 D.H. Lawrence described how New Mexico changed him
forever by liberating him from the great era of material and mechanical development.
Huxley's Savage Reservation appears to owe much to this essay, the Plumed Serpent (1926)
and Mornings in Mexico (1927) (8).
• In the 1946 Foreword Huxley explains that in a newly written Brave New World he would
offer the Savage a third alternative option (9).
Notes to the intro “Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)”

• Contacting D.H. Lawrence, Russell, Maria Nys (1919) (2)
• Huxley was condemned by the Daily Express, his books were censured and censored, or
even burned in Cairo (3) (No wonder for an author who is warning by telling the plain
truth).
• Resistance against the vulgarity and perversity of mass civilization (ca. 1927) (4)
• In Ape and Essence (1948) rapid deforestation, pollution and ecological “imbecility” are
leading to an apocalypse (6)
• Walt Disney merely understood every third word (in Huxley's synopsis of “Alice in
Wonderland”) (6)
• Time must have a stop (1944) is an anthology illustrating “the highest common factor of all
higher religions” (6)
• “The Art of seeing” (1942): defending Bates' method of eye-training (7)
• The Doors of Perception (1954) → inspired the Doors, → psychedelic sixties (mescalin) (7)
• After a fire, which destroyed all his belongings Huxley felt like a man without possessions
and without a past (8).
• In the end his eyesight was damaged (9)
Foreword (1949)
• Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean (1)
• The Savage is only offered two alternatives: an insane life in Utopia or the life of a primitive
in an Indian village (2)
• The Savage's religion, that is half fertility cult and half Penitente ferocity (2)
• Religion would be the conscious and intelligent pursuit of Man's Final End (→ Tao / Logos)
(3)
• Great is the truth, but still greater is silence about truth (8)
• Marriage licenses like dog licenses, good for 12 months (10)
• “You pays your money and you takes your choice” (10)
Notes to Brave New World

• Stamp collectors compose the backbone of society (2)
• In Epsilons we don't need human intelligence (12)
• The secret of happiness and virtue is: Liking what you've got to do (13)
• We condition the masses to hate nature and to love sports (19)
• Most historical facts are unpleasant (20)
• The child's mind is the sum of the applied suggestions and the adults' mind too. But all these
suggestions are our suggestions – the suggestions from the State (25)
• “Oh Ford!”, he said, “I've gone and woken the children.' (25). As an alliteration “Oh, Ford!”

equals “Oh, Lord!” (25, 71)
• College of Emotional Engineering (59)
• Pretty good at inventing phrases – the words that make you jump. It's not enough for the
phrases to be good, but what you make with them ought to be good too. (62)
• All men are physico-chemically equal (65) and useful sources for phosphorus recovery (65)
• Religious symbolism: Sign of the T - “I drink to my annihilation” - a couple of Solidarity
Hymns – Soma tablets - “For I am U and U are I” - “Orgy–Porgy”, “Kiss the girls and make
them One” (capitalized!) (72-75)
• “She doesn't mind being meat” (82)
• Soma doses: “I take a gramme and only am” (94)
• “By his heretical views on sport and soma, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our
Ford.... he has proved himself an enemy of Society...” (134)
• “O, brave new world, that has such people in it” (144) as a “semi-religious” hymn.
• Most of our girls are Freemartins (146)
• “Love's as good as soma” (150) in a song.
• Optimal populations are always ice-berg shaped: 10% (the Alphas) above, 90% (the
Epsilons) below levels – no strain on the mind or the muscles: Seven and a half hours of
mild, unexhausting labor and then the soma ration, games and unrestricted copulation and
the feelies. → What more can they ask for? (204).
• Technically it would be simple to reduce the labor to a four hours/day level. It has been
tried, but it didn't work: instability, unrest and an excessive abuse of soma (204).
• Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive. Even science may be considered
as an enemy... (205).
• Happiness has got to get paid for (208).
• Authors may produce better scripts in bad climates (209)
• There used to be something called God – before the Nine Years' War: “God in the safe and
Ford on the shelves” (210)
• Independence was not made for man – it is an unnatural state (212)
• As passions grows calm our reason becomes less troubled in working, less obscured by
images – whereupon God emerges as from behind a cloud. You can only be independent of
God while you've God youth and prosperity. Well, we've got youth and prosperity right up to
the end. What follows? Evidently, that we can be independent of God. Religious sentiment
therefore is superfluous. (212-213)
• God manifests himself as an absence. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific
medicine and universal happiness. People believe in God because they've been conditioned
to believe in God (214).
• The gods are just, but their code of law is dictated by the people who organize society (215).
• Christianity without tears – that's what soma is. (217)
• Once in a month we flood the system with adrenalin (219).
• The Savage is claiming the right to be unhappy (219).
• Pain's a delusion (229).
• Maiden of Matsaki (229).
• In the end the Savage probably commits suicide (237).

15. Essays in Literary Critisism – Herbert Read (1938)
• Subtitle: Particular Studies
• SBN: 572 08364 1
• Reprint: 1967
• Size: 244 pages
Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
1. Froissart
2. Malory
3. Descartes
4. Swift
5. Vauvenargues
6. Tobias Smollett
7. Sterne
8. Hawthorne
9. Charlotte and Emily Brontë
10. Bagehot
11. Coventry Patmore
12. Gerrard Manley Hopkins
13. Henry James
• Index
Notes
• Swift produces contingent literature: See the distinction between
1. contingent literature (writing for others) and
2. absolute literature enjoying writing as a free and creative activity (page 62)
• A man without passion is the definition of a true clerk, the intellectual, the scholar (65)
• Master passion is the anger against injustice and oppression (71)
• Vauvenargue: the code of human behavior is an illusion. There is only the science of
individual behavior, which is psychology (98)
• Sterne: A work of art is born to a finite shape. (113)
• All great epics of the world are local epics (114, 138)
• Humor is an exposure of the contrast between the godlike and the trivial exhibited in a
personality (117).
• The little is made great and the great little on order to destroy both (117)
• We are like iron and must be heated before we can be wrought (120)
• Romanticists see all men as gods or trivialities of existence (126)
• Shaking words (129)
• Nietzsche calls Sterne the freest write of all time (130)
• Hawthorne: His defects are defects of education (133)
• Man is no longer an animal his clothes are as natural to him as his skin and sculptors have
no right to undress him (133)
• The flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep (137)
• Brontë: Charlotte's little stories have been written between the age of 13 and 23 (147)

• Psychical hermaphroditism (148)
• Mingling the strong and the sweet (148)
• Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials
(150)
• In the English sense style is picturesqueness, but in the French sense clarity and brevity
(151).
• Making histories like growing potatoes in a cellar (155)
• Real experience is perennially interesting, and to all men. However real experience of each
individual may be very limited (155).
• shibboleth (163)
• Bagehot: there are two spheres in human life: thought and action (167)
• Keats' preface to Endymion: “The imagination of a boy is healthy; the imagination of a man
is healthy; but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the way of
life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted”. (169)
• Essay on “The Ignorance of Man” (175)
• Imagination which does not build on experience is baseless fabric (177)
• The most perfect books have been written not by those who thought much of books but by
those who thought little ...” (178)
• “Those who know a place or a person best are not those most likely to describe it best. Their
knowledge is so familiar that they cannot bring it out in words “(179).
• Coventry Patmore: Gladstone's leprosy is so perfect that men call him clean (182).
• That which is unseen is known by that which is seen” (186)
• The Tree of Learning (in Genesis) leads to denial of knowledge (186)
• In his essay on Mrs. Meynell he says “A strong and predominatingly masculine mind has
often much to say, but a very imperfect way to say it; the predominatingly feminine mind
can say anything, but has nothing to say. But with the double-sexed insight of genius...”
(190)
• The faith which declares man and woman to be priest and priestess to each other of relations
inherent in Divinity itself … (193)
• The lost masterpiece “Sponsa Dei” which Patmore destroyed when Hopkins warned him
that it was “telling secrets” …. (193)
• It is implicit in the Odes (194)
• Hopkins's Poetry (200)
• Running Rhythm, Sprung Rhythm, Trochaic and Dactylic, Reversed Feet and Reversed or
Counterpoint Rhythm (207)
• Inventing words,such as shivelight, firedint, …. (212)

16. Thomas More - by Daniel Sargent (1938)
• Publisher: Unicorn Books (1938)
• Volume: pocket 280 pages
Contents
1. More's education
2. More's calling
3. More and Erasmus
4. More's household
5. More and the temporalty
6. More and the spritualty
7. The church's champion
8. The king's wilfulness
9. The king's chancellor
10.More's retirement
11.The Tower of London
12.Execution
Notes
• Contacts to his friend Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (page 45)
• In an epitaph More describes his wife Jane Colt: Uxorcula Mori - my little wife.
Within a month he marries again: for the sake of his 4 children (51)
• More devotes much time to pilgrimages, e.g. to the shrines of the Virgin (53)
• The Hunne-case (54)
• The voyage of Americus Vespucius and The Praise of Folly inspired More to the Utopia-
project.
However the humorous part II of Utopia has been the first part to be written (60)
• Explanation of Utopia: Folly rules all the men that really exist. You have to go to
NOWHERE to find men who are governed by reason. (63).
• "hinterland" (63)
• In the time of More two English governments were fronted: the ecclesiastical (Spiritualty)
and the civil (Temporalty) government. (93)
• Chief oppenents are two priests (Tyndale and Frith, maybe included: Friar Barnes) and two
lawyers Simon Fish and Christopher Saint-German (142).

17. Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie (1943)
• Publisher: Dent & Sons
• foreword: by Pete Seeger
• 430 pages
Notes
• Like many Oklahoma farmer he (Woody Guthrie) had long taken a dim view of bankers
(page X, foreword by Pete Seeger)
• Oil gushers: Dog Days, dying fish, dying grass,trees tanglewood and weeds (114)

18. The Natural History of Nonsense by Bergen Evans (1946)
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• dedication : To Jean
• Size: 262 pages
• pdf-version: The Natural History of Nonsense
• intro: Truth's a dog must to kennel; he mast be whipped out, when Lady the brach may
stand by the fire and stink. (King Lear, I, iv, 124-126)
Notes
• In modern times mankind still feels fettered in a world of voodoo. Hotels omit thirteen from
all floor and room numbers. We trust astrologer and the horoscope (5-6).
• Did Adam and Eve have a navel (7)
• As late as 1675 the learned Jesuit Kircherus catalogued mermaids and griffins among the
animals in Noah's ark.. (11)
• Footnote: The finding of the Ark was reported in The Pathfinder, July 3, 1944, p. 26. It is
said to have been discovered by one Roskovitsky, a Russian aviator in World War I, while
on "a routine flight" over Ararat. Theutterly unprejudiced condition of his mind is revealed
by the fact that at first he "thought it was a submarine." The news of the finding was
suppressed by the Bolsheviks, who came into power soon after and realized that this
verification of the Bible would be a death blow to their antireligious campaign. (11)
• The last legal execution for witchcraft took place late in the eighteenth century, so that our
grandfathers could have known. men who had seen men and women put to death for
associating with the Devil. (12)
• Between 1926 and 1936 the New York Times carried stories of more than fifty cases of
witchcraft. Fifteen of these were in the United States, distributed among New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts. They came
into the news not because witchcraft in itself constituted news, but because the supposed
witch was injured or killed by those who thought themselves victimized by his or her art.
The most sensational case was that of Nelson D. Rehmeyer, a farmer living near York,
Pennsylvania, who was murdered by three of his neighbors who wanted a lock of his hair to
do "hexing" with. The coroner, in his report on Rehmeyer's death, said that more than half
the inhabitants of that part of Pennsylvania believed in witchcraft. (13)
• Siamese Twins (110-111)
• Menstruation as an unnatural state: most of the time the women used to be pregnant (12o)
• Drowned women
• Suicide (131)

19. All the Kings's Men – Robert Penn Warren (1946)
• Bantam Classic
• 438 pages
• Dedicated to Justine and David Mitchell Clay
Notes
• no individual can ever be responsible for the consequences of any action within the chaos
and tumult of history and time.

20. Over to You - ten stories by Roald Dahl (1946)
• Dedication: to S.M.D.
• Publisher: Mayflower
• Size: Paperback, 142 pages
Contents
• Death of an Old Old Man
• An African Story
• A Piece of Cake
• Madame Rosette
• Katina
• Yesterday Was Beautiful
• They Shall Not Grow Old
• Beware of the Dog
• Only This
• Someone Like You

21. The Heart of the Matter - by Graham Greene (1948)
• Author: Graham Greene (1904-1991)
• First published: 1948
• Editor: Star Editions, William Heinemann LTD, London (to be sold on the continent of
Europe only)
• Category: Novel
• Size: Pocketbook, 334 pages
• Devoted: To V.G., L.C.G. and F.C.G.
Plot
The author is a Catholic poet and writer.
The novel is situated at some British colony, located in West-Africa at the end of World War II.
The story is a strange sketch of a colonial, British society in wartime.
Principal actors are:

• A police officer, Major Scobie, married to Louise.
• Scobies servant Ali
• Yusef, a local trader from Syria
• Mrs. Helen Rolt, a young widow, saved from a sunken transportation ship.
Major Scobie is living as a decent Catholic until his wife Louise decides to live in South Africa for
a while.
In order to pay the travel expenses Scobie has borrow some money from Yusef.
While Louise is staying in South Africa, Scobie falls in love with Helen, but is being troubled by
sinful adultery.
The local servant Ali reports details to the love affair to others and the conflict is escalating.
Scobie reveals his problems to Yusef, who manages to silence Ali by a hired assasin.
After a few months Louise returns and Scobie decides to kill himself in a perfect suicide.
He leaves an "I love you"-message to Helen underneath a stamp in a stamp-album.
Notes
• The Heart of the Matter clearly demonstrates the power of religion, which according to the
author is positive, but will later be considered harmful (by Dawkins in The God Delusion
-2006- )
• The title The Heart of the Matter is quoted (and may be explained ??) at page 141.
• Filling a gap in British vocabulary (?) Graham Green uses the German word "Scharmerei" at
page 161
• Some expressions are unclear to foreign readers and probably to be understood by British
readers only, e.g. "... a voy by the Ealing Altar" at page 226
• In contrast to "you" the word "Thou" is to be written in capital letters. Quote: "I an not Thou
but simply you, when you speak to me". (page 316)

22. American literature in the 20th century - Heinrich Straumann (1951)
• Editor: Grey Arrow books.
• → Muckraking in the 21st Century
Notes
• Success as the grace of God (page 31)
• Successful → must be good anyway; what fails must be bad (31)
“What is successful must be good; what fails must be bad. This attitude incidentally
coincides with the puritan doctrine that success may be interpreted as a sign of the grace of
God and thus may have a two-fold base in the American tradition”8
• The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens 1931 (Lincoln Steffens) (34)
• The book even predicts the disappearance of the the 'poor rich, the middle class of quiet
leisure' as Lincoln Steffens calls them. (35)
Muckraking
“The story of how he became aware of the way in which State legislation may provide
all the machinery for any kind of dishonest practice, is as revealing as that of the
unexpected approval by big crooks of the publicity they received through Steffen's
muckraking because it helped to increase their profits9”.
8 Pag. 30 in American literature in the twentieth century - Heinrich Straumann (1962) – (224 pag.) Grey Arrow books.
9 Pag. 35 in American literature in the twentieth century - Heinrich Straumann (1962) – (224 pag.) Grey Arrow books.

23. The Catcher in the Rye - by J.D. Salinger (1951)
• Author: Jerome D. Salinger (born 1919)
• Publisher: Bantam (1945 / 1951)
• Devoted: To my Mother
• Published in Dutch since 1954: "De vanger in het graan" (1996: ISBN 90 417 10221 CIP
NUGI 301)
• Category: novel
Structure
26 Chapters
Style
A masterpiece of modern American literature!
...an introduction to teenage American spoken speech...
Notes
• An explanation for the title "The Catcher in the Rye" may be found at the end of chapter 22,
in which is referred to a song "If a body catch a body comin' through the rye". Phoebe
howevers is correcting Holden: "If a body meet a body comin' through the rye" by Robert
Burns. (page 173).
Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around ... except me. And I'm standing at the edge of
some crazy cliff... and I have to catch everybody on their way going over the cliffs...
• An analysis of this book may be found in "Salinger - a critical and personal portrait, edited
and with an introduction by Henry Anatole Grunwald, A Giant Cardinal Edition -1963-).
This book also contains:
an appendix A: "The early Stories" by Gwynn and Blotner. (from page 286).
an appendix B: "The language in The Catcher in the Rye" by Donald P. Costello. (page 294).
• it was cold as witch's teat10 (page 4)
10 Cold as a witches tit? - WebAnswers.com

24. East of Eden - by John Steinbeck (1952)
• Category: novel (keyword-novel see explanation)
• Keyword: Hebrew: "Timshel" -> English "Thou mayest" rule over sin (chapter 24, page
269).
The novel ends with a bedridden Adam giving Cal his blessing in the form of the word
Timshel! (a Hebrew word said in the novel to mean 'thou mayest'), alluding to the point that
Cal may have the ability to conquer his evil nature. (→ East of Eden - novel)
• Editor: Bantam Books
• Volume: Pocketbook, 534 pages
Structure
• 4 parts, 55 chapters
• Part 1: chapter 1- 11
• Part 2: chapter 12-22
Notes to Timshel
Note 1 by Expert: Aiden Barr - 4/26/2003:

I've found through Web searches that the word is from John Steinbeck's East of Eden. I
haven't read that book, but the passage in which that word is cited appears often on the web.
The word is transliterated incorrectly. It should read "Timshol" instead of "Timshel", which
is second person future tense of the verb "to rule" (limshol), and thus means "you will rule",
or, using King James English, "thou wilst rule."
I'm afraid it doesn't mean "thou mayest."
Another note 2 from expert at timshellfarm claims:
There is a difficulty rendering this word timsel in transliteration. When it stands alone, it is
pronounced timshol, with a long ?o? in the final, accented syllable. But in this passage, as
often happens in Hebrew, the word is connected to the word that follows, and therefore loses
its accent. So, instead of a long ?o? the vowel is reduced, and the word is most correctly
pronounced timsh?l. Steinbeck chose to render this sound with an ?e? and the word is
usually pronounced timshel. But Steinbeck was not so much interested in the pronunciation
as he was in the meaning of the particular grammatical form. It is, in fact, second person
imperfect, which refers to an act that has not yet occurred. And, as often is the case in
Hebrew, it has a variety of meanings.
In East of Eden, the source of information about this word is the Chinese servant Lee. He
recalls that when Samuel had read the Cain and Abel story to the family, Lee was intrigued
by it, and examined it ?word for word? (p. 346). He consulted a couple of translations, the
King James and the American Standard, and was not satisfied with them. King James
translates the phrase, ?thou shalt rule over him? as if to ?promise that Cain would conquer
sin.? (p. 346) The American Standard, on the other hand, says ?Do you rule over him,?
which is not a promise, but an order. Lee decided that he needed to find its original meaning.

Lee explains to his family why the King James and American Standard translations are
inadequate and why the Hebrew is so important: The ?word timshel??Thou mayest??that
gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open.
That throws it right back on a man. For if “Thou mayest?” it is also true that “Thou mayest
not.?” (p. 349)
Lee continues, ??Thou mayest?? makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for
in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He
can choose his course and fight it through and win.? At the end of the novel, Lee begs for
Adam to give Cal his blessing. ?Don?t leave him alone with his guilt?Let him be free.? And
Adam, as he is dying, whispers one word: ?Timshel!? He thus affirms that Cal has indeed,
by accepting responsibility, demonstrated that he is capable of ruling over sin.
East of Eden is a literary masterpiece in which we see the story of Cain and Abel replayed in
the lives of two generations of Salinas Valley families. Steinbeck demonstrates the powerful
themes of this biblical story, and their contemporary relevance. We should not read the
biblical words, without reflecting on Steinbeck?s lesson that we, indeed, can rule over sin if
we choose to do so.
Discussions reveal the King James translation does not make a promise in "Thou shalt" and
the phrase "Thou shalt" is to be understood as a command just like "Thou shalt not steal".
German notes:
See: Bible-translation
Notes to the manuscript

• Humorless as a chicken (Chapter 1, page 2)
• To look through Dr. Gunn is to know the family's medical history (ch. 2, page 8)
• Things an army uses to keep its men from going insane: endless polishing of metal and
leather, parade and drill end escort...(chapter 7, page 47)
• Physical and psychological Monster born to human parents (Chapter 8, page 62)
• A story has no gain or loss (64), A lie is a device for profit or escape. (Chapter 8, page 64)
• Don't turn mulish ->the name Mulish = like a mule (116)
• Eve seems to be correlated to evil (?17, 162)
• The church and the whorehouse arrived simultaneously in the west (?19, 191)
• Giving children a name to live up to (234)
• Cain and Abel: "and thou shalt rule over him" Genesis 4,7 has been translated in German in
a similar way: "Doch Du werde Herr über ihn" (237/238)
• The Hebrew God Yahweh is a God for shepherd people (239)
• Chautauqua (from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
"a Chautauqua is an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain,
improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and the mind of the
hearer".
• John Steinbeck wrote this novel to explain the correct translation for Timshel and wrong
translations in 2 Bibles:
- the King James translation makes a promise in "Thou shalt" -> men may surely triumph
over sin.
- the American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin: "Do thou rule over
them" (267).
- according to Steinbeck the correct translation for the Hebrew keyword : "timshel" is in

English "Thou mayest" (rule over sin) which implies a choice -> "It might be the most
important word in the world" (chapter 24, page 269).
• There will come a time I will not be able to sell for cash without loosing money (292)
• Myriads of tiny colored dots that make up darkness (338)
• Visiting the white house of Ernest Steinbeck at Central avenue Nr. 130, King City (?31, page
343)
• He looked up at the summer stars: at blue Venus and red Mars (?33, page 358)
• General Pershing -> Missiles (?); Minute Man from 1 minute long speeches (?) (456)
• Timshel: "all precious things are lonely" (?47, page 460)
• Am I supposed to look after him ? (499)
• His whispered word seemed to hang in the air:
"Timshel!"
His eyes closed and he slept.
THE END (534)

25. Story of O – by Pauline Reage (1954)
• Publisher: Ballentine Books (1965)
• Size: 199 pages
Structure
• Translator's Note
• A Note on the Story of O
• Preface: Happiness in Slavery
• The lovers of Roissy
• Sir Stephen
• Anne-Marie and the Rings
• The Owl
• The Second Ending
Notes
• “Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me
closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me
suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you
were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that.
You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.” 11 (front page)
• Reviews
• Happiness in Slavery describes an Anabaptist's notebook of grievances (dated 1838), which

never has been recovered, but today would be considered a dangerous book (page xxii)
• What we are concerned here is another kind of dangerous book: an erotic book (page xxiii).
• The day when Rene abandons O to still further torments, she still manages to have enough
presence of mind to notice that her lover's slippers are frayed, and notes that she will have to
buy him another pair (page xxv)
• The truth of the Anabaptist's notebook may be that Glenelg's slaves were in love with their
master and they could not bear to be without him (xxxvi)
11 Quote by Pauline Réage: “Keep me rather in this cage, and ..

26. The Federal Reserve System - by the Board of Governors of the Fed
(1954)
• Subtitle: Purposes and Functions
• Published: First Edition 1939, third edition: 1954
• Editor: the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System12
• Size: 208 pages
• category: Overview and explanation of the US-monetary system
Chapter I - The Federal Reserve Act (1913)

The Federal Reserve Act had been signed December 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson. Its
original purposes were to:
“to give the country an elastic currency, to provide facilities for discounting commercial
paper and to improve the supervision of banking13”
“to create conditions to sustained high employment, stable values, growth of the country
and a rising level of consumption.”
Some of these goals really were to be successful for nearly a century – from 1913 up to 2011, but at
the very moment (at the end of 2011) the system seems to be very near to a breakdown.
Employment is at low levels, values are unstable and growth is extremely low. Consumption
traditionally is being financed by growing debts. Something strange has been happening to the
Federal Reserve System. For these reasons I decided to invest some time to study this old booklet.
Of course the Federal Reserve indirectly affects every phase of American enterprise and virtually
every person inside (and outside) the United States. That's why anybody should consider her- or
himself as involved.
The background of the Federal Reserve System started in smaller cities and rural US-
regions. Each year credit demand was tight up to problematic during the crop-moving
season, resulting in sharply rising interest rates. Every few years difficulties used to provoke
a monetary crisis14.
When credit becomes scarce and hard to get or costs too much the companies may curtail
operations, eventually resulting in a serious depression, unemployment and distress. When
in contrast credit becomes abundant and cheap the reverse development results in inflation.
Rising prices may be followed by higher wages, but eventually a downward spiral may
develop. These effects had been identified as serious problems to be avoided15.
To operate under safe conditions banks are required by law to hold reserves equal to a designated
percentage of their deposits. I was astonished to identify the high rates, which as a safe margin had
been prescribed in 195416: Central reserve city banks were obliged to hold a reserve of 22%, reserve
city banks needed 19% and other member banks 13%.
12 The 208 page long copy I found in my father's library had been printed 1954 and belonged to the third edition. The
first edition had been dated 1939. Under the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 39-26719 I found a newer
version from 1984 : The Federal Reserve System: purpose and functions: Band 7
13 page 1
14 page 3
15 page 8-9
16 page 14

In simple sample calculations the booklet now explains how a bank deposit of 10 billion dollars of
reserve money with the member bank results in a growth of 40 billion in loans and investments and
of 50 billion in demand deposits 17. This invention provides the powerful basis for an 5-fold
increase of the monetary reserve's amount in the money supply. It is shown that Reserve Money
provides multiplying capacities in bank transactions. Up to a certain limit Federal Reserve dollars
really may be considered as “high-powered” dollars as compared to ordinary deposit dollars.
But right now, we know something went wrong. Did the designers oversee an important parameter?
Yes they must. Otherwise the system would not have ended up in a desolate shape as it is.
From my technical studies, which merely provided me with rudimentary knowledge of economics I
assumed that these constructs did hide some dangerous potential behind the glamorous facades,
which may have been Potemkin's constructs. Compared to analogical technical designs these
inventions simply must reveal a drawback, which may only be unveiling itself in uncommon
situations under abnormal conditions. Of course these uncommon conditions are today's standard
conditions. A good designer will foresee such uncommon conditions or check his designs for all
thinkable possible uncommon conditions.
But what happens if a probably poorly paid designer discovers a fine, but unknown and hardly
discoverable method to earn a fantastic amount of dollars by tilting the system. Would he report his
detected error to his boss or would he sell his invention to a criminal person?
We do not need too much psychological studies to find an answer to this question. Of course this
idea merely arose from my fantasy – even if it will be proven to be true...
Chapter II - An unprofessional and unqualified design (1954)

I decided to analyze the concept in the manuscript's version of 1954. Some important conditions for
a successful monetary expansion have been described in chapter II18:
The required series of monetary transactions for monetary expansion needs time and causes
delays, which may cause problems in very fast transactions.
For monetary expansion there must be a demand for bank credit by credit-worthy
borrowers AND/OR an available supply of low-risk investment securities, which had to be
appropriate for banks to purchase. Normally these conditions prevail, but sometimes demand
is slack and securities are in short supply.
Delays may cause problems in very fast transactions. In 1954 hardly anybody was supposed to
foresee the ultra-fast switching technology of modern computer systems, which are performing
today's monetary transactions. Delays may be essential for stabilizing these bookings, but on the
other hand criminals may use delays for their advantage. The series of monetary transactions look
simple, but they involve different banks. They may even involve globally spread networks. Of
course the problem of worst case delays needs to be analyzed before introducing new networks.
The second condition, prescribing low-risk investment securities like the bonds, obviously did not
meet the need for low-risk investment requirements in 2011, which did lead to the catastrophic
global breakdown of banking business. The panics resulted in bad ratings for virtually all bonds.
Nobody seems to have foreseen a sudden global breakdown in the supply-chain of low-risk
investment securities. This is a serious problem, which in a qualified system should have been
noticed. For this reason both the design of the Federal Reserve System and the design team of the
modern concept must be considered as unprofessional, respectively unqualified.
17 page 14
18 Chapter II, page 26

The original concept of 1954 at least had been provided with some metallic core of precious gold. I
decided to investigate the function of gold in stabilizing the system. Would a gold standard have
been able to protect the system?
Chapter III - Checks for “undue use” and speculation

The first two decades the Federal Bank's authority to extend credit was limited to “eligible
paper”, which was meant to brake “over-expansive” credit and money. Prime quality papers
were short-term Government securities19.
When a member bank applies for accommodation a Federal Reserve bank is under no
automatic obligation to grant the credit. They must check for “undue use” in speculation,
etc.
These checks for “undue use” in speculation, etc. seem to have failed in 2011, leading to unlimited
speculation with the aid of the Federal Reserve system.
Remembering the vast impact of widespread corruption in US-economy as described in Gustavus
Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes20 we must even fear the infection of the famous
economic education systems, in which gigantic contributions regulated a smooth flow of
information and the installation of qualified “experts” at key-positions in the monetary circuits.
These practices have been illustrated in BBC Two - The Party's Over: How the West Went Bust, in
which Robert Peston interviews bankers, politicians and economists, and concludes “that the boom
we enjoyed before the crash was based on an illusion, and that the world's economy is now so
unbalanced that in the West we face a sobering wake-up call.”
Gold Reserves and Debt

In some periods the inflow of gold from abroad gave member banks additional reserves without
recourse to borrowing from the Reserve banks. These inflows of extra reserves disturbed the central
control of operations.
Especially the Second World War and the actions in financing the economic recovery resulted in a
great growth of the Federal Government's debt.
In the 1954-version of the system the nation's gold reserves had been defined as “the base of its
monetary system”21.
The limits on Federal Reserve lending power were “set by the requirement that the Reserve
Banks must hold 25% reserve in gold certificates against their liabilities for deposits and
notes.“ The Board of Governors could suspend this requirement, subject to penalty, for
“short periods”.
Luckily they forgot to specify the “short periods”, which of course may be interpreted as 100 years
as well. The fundamental concept of gold has been forgotten or lost in later years. It probably has
been replaced with gold-certificates, which intrinsically are worth as much as the printed paper –
that is a few cents.
19 Chapter III, page 33

20 History of the Great American Fortunes. Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1909–
1910 ; Single volume edition, New York, 1936.
21 Chapter III, Page 54

In summary, Federal Reserve lending power arises from the authority given by law to create
money, limited by the requirement that aggregate liabilities on deposits and notes must not
be in excess of 4 x Federal reserves of gold certificates (prior to 1934 holdings of gold).
Federal reserve lending power is not used for profit, but for the purpose of influencing the
flow of credit and money in the interest of economic stability.
Power - Not used for profit? Of course the power has been used to accumulate profit. This has been
noticed for decades of years...
At mid-1954 the actual amount of Federal Reserve deposits and notes outstanding was only
2.2 times the system's reserve of gold certificates.
The system blossomed and seemed to be a great success. This however was not a lasting effect. The
downfall seems to have been caused by tolerating and ignoring or even protecting speculation.
Chapter IV – Speculation
The risks of Stock market credits and real estate speculations had been foreseen 195422:
“The Federal Reserve authorities are enjoined by law to restrain the use of bank credit for
speculation. They are to keep themselves informed, in the language of the law, as to whether
undue use is being made of bank credit for the speculative carrying of or trading in
securities, real estate or commodities, and they are authorized to take restrictive action to
prevent undue use of credits in these fields.”
Of course no action has been taken, but why ? - if the concept clearly warns for these effects...
Could it be foreseen that someone corrupted monetary authorities to adapt the system to speculative
“investments”?
Probably it couldn't. As soon as the money involved surpassed a critical – let's say an “irresistible”
level speculation was allowed to develop a booming phase. And in modern global systems the laws
may be surpassed anyway: by simply moving your financial transactions to another location,
beyond the critical borders...
Chapter VII – Gold

“Gold and Federal Reserve credit are the principal sources of member bank reserves.
Gold inflows reduce reliance of banks on Federal Reserve credit and gold outflows increase
it. Changes in the country's monetary gold stock are reflected in Federal Reserve holdings of
gold certificates. “
Gold movements are an important factor in member bank use of Federal reserve credit. This may
have been a good reason to manipulate the gold-price and at least try to remove any other influence
of gold from the monetary system.
In the American monetary system the standard dollar had been defined as the weight of gold. Gold
is the reserve money of the Federal Reserve banks. Under the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 private
persons were not permitted to hold (in the USA) any gold in monetary form 23. Gold had to be
handed out at a standard price of $35 an ounce. In 1954 the gold certificates are held as reserves of
the Reserve Banks, are not permitted to circulate outside the Reserve Banks and may not be used
for other purposes.
22 Chapter IV, Page 57

23 Chapter VII, page 99

In 1954 movements of gold from one country to another were the ultimate means by which
international balances used to be settled24.
By 2011 the generated amount of money has been overwhelming the total amount of gold. At the
current market price (1700 $ for an ounce) gold merely plays a subordinate role in the monetary
system.
Still gold may have returned to the system because today Utah law treats gold and silver
coins as legal tender – dated Mar. 29, 2011.
The large-scale loss of confidence in fiat money leads to considering gold as investments. Gold
may also protect assets against hyper-inflation. The remarkable legal change in Utah is that the state
tax code now treats gold and silver coins -- issued by the U.S. Mint -- as currency rather than an
asset. That means no capital gains or other state taxes will be levied when the coins are exchanged.
If the precious metal in your $50 coin has a market value of $1,700, it still only has $50 dollars
worth of purchasing power.
To stabilize an efficient monetary control the need for gold movements between countries needs to
be reduced. Before the Second World War a huge inflow of gold has been diagnosed. After the
United States entered the the gold inflow stopped. Gold outflow had been directed to south America
to purchase goods.
High values of gold may influence the market and the Federal Reserve's control system. To
guarantee the system's stability it may be necessary to forbid free gold trading activities. This
probably did lead to the order to manipulate the gold-price, which needs to be kept at a negligible
level against the leading currencies.
A return of high-priced gold may eventually supersede the ineffective inflated fiat money. Banks
might create accounts backed by gold and silver coins. The new law attacks the Federal Reserve,
protesting against the central bank has permanently damaged the value of the dollar by pumping
trillions into the economy, drawing down the greenback's buying power.
The Tea-party obviously is to be considered as the main force against the inflationary death of the
dying dollar. This is just the beginning. A few other states are already considering similar bills. If
the U.S. dollar continues its downward spiral, more states will begin making alternative plans to
safeguard their economies.
Chapter IX – Debts
Federal Reserve influence on the flow of credit and money effects the volume of lending,
spending and saving in the economy generally. Reserve banking policy is said to have
contributed to stable economic progress25.
In retrospect however saving has been neglected against the aggressive efforts to promote lending
and spending – leading the country into a deathly debt-spiral.
Chapter X – Interest Rates

Interest rates are the prices paid for credit. In 1928 and 1929 for example, speculation in the
stock market had raised stock prices so high that equity capital was available to corporations
on more attractive terms than debt capital. The cost of debt financing was increasing, but a
corporation could sell stock on such favorable terms that this became the favored method of
financing.

25 Chapter IX, page 120

Interest rates of 9% or more in this market did not prevent a large volume of borrowing for
speculation in stocks26. In the stock market boom the Federal Reserve control system lost control...
Nobody even foresaw speculation in 1928. They just let it happen as if it were an Act of God. The
systemic protection to prevent a repetition of this problem had to be added in 1929 as the “ margin
requirements”27.
Chapter XII – Supervision

By keeping individual banks strong, bank supervision helps to maintain an adequate and
responsive banking system and thus contributes to the smooth functioning of economic
processes28.
This statement may have been valid in 1954 but certainly has been invalid since 2008 at the
greatest US-bankruptcy of all times29, in which virtually no supervision has been practiced.
Failure of banks to meet their liabilities can reach far beyond depositors and borrowers and
the immediate territory that the banks serve.
That's why you would badly need a qualified foreseeing supervision. Why didn't supervisors
design professional models for the monetary markets in which strategies for protective measures
could be studied. None of these measures have been studied at all. The elementary economic study
concentrated on making profit by destabilizing the monetary system.
“Banking supervision began in the USA more than a century ago30”
Yes, fine. It is not the question when it began, but when it ended....
Chapter XIII – Gold–inflow into the USA

The increase in the amount of gold certificates from 1920 to 1954 reflects the enormous
increase of monetary gold between 1930 and 1940. By far the greatest factor was the flow of
foreign gold, reflecting the pulling power of the USA in a global depression 31. Between 1934
and the end of 1940 imports of gold exceeded exports by almost 16 billion dollars.
After gathering almost all available gold there was no need to gather more of this material. The gold
standard was to be abandoned in exchange to certified paperwork, named “certificates”.
Abandoning the gold standard effectively prevented any outflow of gold from the USA. Low prices
effectively prevented any speculation in gold – keeping the precious treasure safely inside Fort
Knox.
The Gold-stock stored at the US-treasuries is to be considered as a backup value for restarts with
new currencies, in which no alternative values are available. This – it must be said – is the only
responsible measure that has been left from the original Federal Reserve concept. It doesn't matter
who owns the gold. It belongs to the storekeeper, who is in charge at the time of the crash.
26 Chapter X, page 148

27 Chapter X, page 149
28 Chapter XII, page 165
29 The US-economy suffered a major blow at September 15, 2008 in the largest bankruptcy in U.S. History.
30 Chapter XII, page 165
31 Chapter XIII, page 185

Chapter XIV – Summary
“Experience over four decades shows that reserve banking is of vital importance to the
national economy. Provision of bank reserve has come to be the major Federal Reserve
function32.”
In contrast irresponsible reserve banking is of catastrophic importance to the national and global
economy. The BBC-documentary BBC Two - The Party's Over: How the West Went Bust suggests
the manipulations of the formerly optimized system have been corrupted by professional criminals
who have been educated in the appropriate “systemic economics” at the highest universities of the
world. These universities explain how to make money by speculative manipulations of the systemic
weaknesses in the Federal Reserve and other banking systems. The study involves the study of
weaknesses, the modification of weakness to hide the purpose of robbing and plundering the
nation's reserves. It will take decades to reprogram the available economists to responsible bankers,
who commit themselves to decent work without modern, but terrorizing speculations.
“Today the currency function of the Federal Reserve System is a matter of routine, virtually
free from uncertainties or administrative difficulties33.”
This is a rather cool assumption as only a few years later (1958) most of the system's weaknesses
were already well-known34 and being studied to be manipulated for the greatest robbery of all times.
Probably most workers (except of course the “experts”) at the financial departments and most
citizens are still praying this quotation every night before going to bed. It will not help very much
though. As long as the dollar is being eroded they will suffer from a severe inflation.
The Federal Reserve System badly needs a redesign preventing offensive and aggressive
speculation. A parallel currency of gold for non-speculative trading may be a solution for 99% of
the population, who does not want to be involved in speculations. The remaining 1% may satisfy
themselves with monopoly money and their self-created “certificates”.
Conclusion
From a technical viewpoint the Federal Reserve System has to be considered as a horribly bad
design. The Legalized Crime of Banking documents the early insight in the erroneous concept,
leading to a global catastrophe. Improvement of supervision of banking activities, high employment
numbers and stable values have disappeared. They have been lost as soon as the system had been
intruded by violent speculants.
Nobody seems to have foreseen a failure in the sudden global breakdown in the supply-chain of
low-risk investment securities. This is a serious problem, which in a qualified system should have
been foreseen. For this reason both the design of the Federal Reserve System and the design team of
the concept must be considered as unprofessional and unqualified.
Additionally implemented checks for “undue use” in speculation, etc. seem to have failed in 2011,
leading to unlimited speculation with the aid of the Federal Reserve system. Remembering the vast
impact of widespread corruption in US-economy as described in Gustavus Myers' History of the
Great American Fortunes35 we must even fear the infection of the famous economic education
systems, in which gigantic contributions regulated a smooth flow of information and the installation
32 Chapter XIV, page 191

33 Chapter XIV, page 192
34 The Legalized Crime of Banking and a Constitutional Remedy (1958) - Silas Walter Adams
35 History of the Great American Fortunes. Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1909–
1910 ; Single volume edition, New York, 1936.

of qualified “experts” at key-positions in the monetary circuits. These practices have been
illustrated in BBC Two - The Party's Over: How the West Went Bust, in which Robert Peston
interviews bankers, politicians and economists, and concludes that the boom we enjoyed before the
crash was based on an illusion, and that the world's economy is now so unbalanced that in the West
we face a sobering wake-up call.
In the 1954-version of the Federal Reserve system the nation's gold reserves had been defined as
“the base of its monetary system”36. The limits on Federal Reserve lending power were “set by the
requirement that the Reserve Banks must hold 25% reserve in gold certificates against their
liabilities for deposits and notes.“ The Board of Governors could suspend this requirement, subject
to penalty, for “short periods”, which have been extended to decades. In the end they replaced gold
by paper versions of gold, worth nothing but a few cents.
In 1954 movements of gold from one country to another were the ultimate means by which
international balances used to be settled37. By 2011 the generated amount of money has been
overwhelming the total amount of gold. At the current market price (1700 $ for an ounce) gold
merely plays a subordinate role in the monetary system. Gold has been replaced by the dollar.
Still gold may now replace the dollar because today Utah law treats gold and silver coins as legal
tender - Mar. 29, 2011. The large-scale loss of confidence in fiat money leads to considering gold as
investments. Gold may also protect assets against hyper-inflation. The Mormons seem to be the
only wise Americans, protecting themselves against the agonizing currency. The dying dollar marks
the end of the American dream of unlimited monetary expansion by the “helicopter pilot” Mr.
Bernanke, who is flooding the globe with cheap paperwork.
Failure of banks to meet their liabilities can reach far beyond depositors and borrowers and the
immediate territory that the banks serve. That's why we badly need a qualified foreseeing
supervision. Why didn't supervisors design professional models for the monetary markets in which
strategies for protective measures could be studied. None of these measures have ever been studied.
The elementary economic study concentrated on making profit by destabilizing the monetary
system.
To rescue the global system from the deadly inflation spiral with negative interest rates the road
towards stabilizing currencies such as gold may be helpful. Instead the system practices a
manipulation of the gold-price towards lower levels, which are needed to veil the permanently
degradation of the dollar. This spiral will lead us towards a new currency of real value, which needs
some intrinsic protection against criminal operations like unlimited printing.
I don't feel well in working with Euros, but I feel worse for a leading economy working with
deteriorating dollars. In fact the Euro's fate does not really matter. The globally leading currency
will overwhelm all other currencies. The Euro's concept has been based on stability, which is
missing in the dollar's philosophy.
If it has to end up in chaos, I would prefer a quick end in turmoil and a restart in a redesigned,
global Federal Reserve Systems within a month or so. In a restart the basic value will be guaranteed
by physical gold,which is owned by …. (just fill in whatever you like).
By the way: Isn't it funny that the US-treasury owns most of the globally available monetary gold
and always refused to sell any of the “rather cheap and obsolete reserve currency” to compensate
for their national debts? I am sure they have a Plan B for the days coming. I am glad they keep the
price at a low level to let me change as much as I can into precious metals.
And yes, I am praying for this successful restart every day – before going to bed....
36 Chapter III, Page 54


Review38: Waiting for a Butterfly to topple a Sack of Rice... 39
In Mai 2011 I found my father's report on the Federal Reserve, commented by his handwriting in
blue ink... He must have studied the work and updated a percentage for the demand deposits for
Central reserve city banks. Updating 20% instead of 22% he also dated his comment at the 1 st of
August 1954. He must have received and immediately studied the issue of 1954. Probably he had
needed this issue for his administrative work.
Other remarks had been rare in this work and in his first review 1954 my father must have been
satisfied with the system. And indeed, in its raw structure the Federal Reserve System had been
designed as a sound concept, basically secured by collateral backups and well-designed regulations.
Today's problems initially had been caused by deregulation to be followed by excessive frauds
respectively corruption.
I did my own analysis much later, in June 2011 at a gold-price of 1700$. Much has been changing
since that date and a review seemed to be necessary. What is to be said for the monetary base for
individual citizens?
In contradiction to what the Fed is claiming gold is the temporarily suspended Base of the Dollar. I
don't really care what the bankers are saying. As long as gold may be bought and sold the base if the
monetary system is intact. And even if the base is being manipulated it's basic function has not been
changed. For the individual citizen the current base of the monetary system is acceptable.
The greatest risk today is not the value of long-term-savings as individual savers can simple convert
fiat money to gold and silver. The real problem is the systemic risk of destabilization.
Removing safety valves may improve operations and make a plant more profitable. The risks of
deregulation however will not be mad visible until the explosion devastates investments. From time
to time I inspect the progress of the Fukushima clean-up activities, where it really must be a hard
job to re-install safety-valves into a broken plant...
In the meantime I am just sitting here, waiting for the derivatives and stock markets to explode. I
am not sure when this is going to happen. Maybe it all depends on the sack of rice or a butterfly's
wings... The flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil may topple a sack of rice in Shanghai, which in
turn dematerializes the dollar to thin air.
It sounds like a self-fulfilling Biblical prophecy in the metaphor “Thin Air to Thin Air” 40:
"Thin air thou art, and unto thin air thou shalt return" 41
38 "Thin air thou art, and unto thin air thou shalt return" – a review of the Federal Reserve “System” (30.4.2014)
39 Both the butterfly's wings and the sack of rice have been used as unimpressive symptoms for relevant impacts.
The image of the sack of rice toppling over in China is used as a symbol for everything too far away or too unimportant
to be of interest to us. Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? has been based on the
idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a
tornado
40 "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"
41 "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19), and (for "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust") "I will bring
thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee" (Ezekiel 28:18).

The Federal Reserve System
I started with studying my father's copy of The Federal Reserve System, published by the Board of
Governors of the Fed (1954). The 208 page long copy I found in my father's library had been
printed 1954 and belonged to the third edition42. The first edition had been dated 1939.
In my first study, well before the real depression started, I already had uttered the question: What
happens if a probably poorly paid designer discovers a fine, but unknown and hardly discoverable
method to earn a fantastic amount of dollars by tilting the system. Would he report his detected
error to his boss or would he sell his invention to a criminal person?
I said to myself: if systemic errors are to be found, human nature is weak enough to exploit the
problematic spot and suck as much advantage as possible from the gift. That would be nature's
reaction. There is no thing like honesty in financial or monetary business.
In the issue of 1954 I identified a couple of deficiencies as I had described June 2011 43. Each
chapter had its own violations:
1. (chapter I-purpose) The purpose of the Fed is to improve supervision of banking, and to
provide conditions for high employment, stable values, growth of the country and a rising
level of consumption. In the course of three years (2011-2014) these assumptions simply
have been proven as false.
2. (chapter II-Credit & Securities) Nobody inside and outside the Fed seems to have foreseen a
sudden global breakdown in the supply-chain of low-risk investment securities. They have
been replaced by high-risk securities.
3. (chapter III-Checks for “undue use” & speculation) In the 1954-version of the system the
nation's gold reserves had been defined as “the base of its monetary system”. The Reserve
Banks must hold 25% reserve in gold certificates against their liabilities for deposits and
notes.“ In the Nixon-shock 1971 however the system had been “debased” and defaulted on
the spot.
4. (chapter IV-Speculation) The Federal Reserve authorities are enjoined by law to restrain the
use of bank credit for speculation. This law obviously has not been considered worthwhile.
In fact speculation is today's game of the day and the only possibility to earn a fast buck.
5. (chapter VII-Gold) The standard dollar had been defined as the weight of gold. Gold is the
reserve money of the Federal Reserve banks. The chapter VII (titled gold) however simply
had been skipped.
6. (chapter IX-Debts) Federal Reserve influence on the flow of credit and money effects the
volume of lending, spending and saving has been restricted to piling up debt. There is no
real saving at 0% effective interest rate.
Clearly the Federal Reserve System had been overthrown at the Nixon-shock 1971. The monetary
system had been debased in the sense that it had “lost its foundation”.
The explosive forces of monetary expansion spoke for themselves. Even as long as the containment
had been kept intact the increasing pressure was to produce fissures in a system, in which virtually
all regulators and safety-valves had been removed.
42 Under the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 39-26719 I found a newer version from 1984 : The Federal
Reserve System: purpose and functions: Band 7
43 documented in Selected Footnotes - The Concentrated reading project

Deregulation is an ongoing process and safety-valves are being removed year after year. Some of
the deregulation actions have been listed in Wikipedia's entry Deregulation → Finance.
Uncontrolled deregulation behaves like removing control valves from a nuclear reactor in which
the core's activity is expanding till is melts and finally explodes.
For example: in the savings and loan industry thousands of criminal complaints led to over a
thousand felony convictions, but “the elite's financial fraud has effectively been decriminalized”.
Decriminalization of monetary explosions signals “no harm has been done to anybody”. Savers are
not allowed to signal the pain of losses. All we lost will be compensated by new printing.
Gold is the temporarily suspended Base of the Dollar System

Whatever it took – Nixon merely temporarily switched off the redemption of gold 44. This has been
said in his television announcement:
“I have directed Secretary Connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the
dollar into gold..”
“The effect of this action, in other words, will be to stabilize the dollar.”[10]
The current Fed claims gold does not even exist any more as a base – forever. And of course the
dollar has not been stabilized – it's status is declining from day to day, which may be followed in
the news...
For ordinary people there is no obligation to redeem dollars in gold. But what had they recently
been doing in dealing with the Chinese? Since 2012 they freely deliver gold in exchange for dollars
at a very low rate of ca. 1200$.
Obviously gold is still to be considered as a “the base of its monetary system”, although there is no
obligation to redeem the fiat money. Gold may be “bought at an acceptable price” and “as long as it
is available”.
My personal monetary system

That's OK for individual citizens. Here it is: my personal monetary system:
Gold is base money to each citizen's own long-term monetary system and it may be
exchanged at a spot price to dollars, vice versa.
As long as this monetary principle is intact individual citizens do not care what the banks around
them are doing.
44 Nixon Shock – Wikipedia - Nixon, Richard. "Address to the Nation Outlining a New Economic Policy: "The
Challenge of Peace"".

27. Patterns in comparative religion - Mircea Eliade (1958)
A fine overview of religious concepts and symbolism. Mircea Eliade starts by analyzing the Sky
God.
Contents
1. Approximatimations: The Structure and Morphology of the Sacred
2. The Sky and the Sky Gods
3. The Sund and Sun-Worship
4. The Moon and its Mystique
5. The Waters and Water Symbolism
6. Sacred Stones: Epiphanies, Signs and Forms
7. The Earth, Woman and Fertility
8. Vegetation: Rites and Symbols of Regeneration
9. Agriculture an Fertility Cults
10.Sacred Places: Temple, Palace, Centre of the World
11.Sacred Time and the Myth of Eternal Renewal
12.The Morphology and Function of Myths
13.The Structure of Symbols
14.Conclusions
Notes
• Perfection is frightening (page 14)
• The taboo (14)
• Juok is the name of the Supreme Being among the Shilluk (page 27)
• "Our Father who art in Heaven" is (possibly) a Sky God (page 38)
• Fr. W. Schmidt: primitive monotheism, Origins of the idea of divinity (38)
• Iho ("Raised up, on high") is the Sky God of the Maori, more a philosophical concept than a
real divinity (page 40, 57)
• The absence of cults is characteristic for most Sky Gods - Deus Otiosus (46)
• Rain (Fertility, Semen), Thunder and Lightning are attributes of the Sky Gods (53)
• Bisexuality = Divinity, e.g. Awonawilona among the Zuni Indians is androgynous – Lang
called it "He-She" (57)
• Remindings of a Sky God: "Heaven knows" (page 62)
• Varuna = the Embroiderer, "weaving a net"; Var = "to cover", "to close in". Varuna is always
pictured with a rope in his hand and many ceremonies are performed with the object of
loosing men from "the bonds of Varuna" (70)
• In Phoenician language Thor may be translated as "Tauros" (the brave and powerful bull).
Originally in Assyria "the God by whom men swear" is a Sky God in the form of a bull (88)
• (At the writing of this book →) We do not know the name of the supreme god of the
Hittites45. His name was written by means of 2 ideograms of Babylonian origin, carrying the
letters U, and I M. The reading of the ideogram in the Luvian language was Dattas and the
Hurrites called him Teshub (Storm God) (88).
• Suppiluliuma: U is a divine name in Asia Minor and Western Asia (page 89)
45 Initially the Hittite kings venerated the Indo-European sky-god Siu (Greek Zeus, Latin Iu(piter)). The concept seems
preserved in the self-appellation of the Hittite ruler as ‘my sun’. From: A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern
Mythology and Hittite gods

• In early Phoenician pantheon the divine name "El" translates to "merciful bull" (page 90)
• The storm god's sowing is the rain: a symbol for the male semen (93)
• In the Rig Veda the ancestors sequence starting from the Indian Sky-God Dyaus is Varuna -
Prajapati ... (96)
• Gemini (twins), Dioscuri are sons of the Sky God, usually as a result of a union with a
human woman, beneficent and always with either their mother or sister (98)
• The Axes Mundi are mountains (99)
• The 7 levels of the Ziggurat, actually a Cosmic Hill (101)
• The 7 colors of the world and the 7 planets in Ur (101)
• The Mithra (the ceremonial)
• The ceremonial ladder (the climax) had 7 rungs – each of a different metal – the first rung
was lead (Saturn) the second tin (Venus), the third bronze (Jupiter), the fourth iron
(Mercury), the fifth the alloy of money (Mars), the sixth silver (moon), the seventh (the sun)
(104)
• The pillar of the world with 7 notches (106)
• Jacob's ladder (107)
• Weaving and spindling are symbolizing creations (181)
• Goddess with a spindle found at Troy, dated between 2000 and 1500 before Christ (182)

28. (Outline of) Human Relationships - by Dr. Eustace Chesser (1959)
• Subtitle: An Outline of Human Relationships
• First Published in the UK in 1959
• Publisher: May Fair Medical Series
• An abridged Edition
• Volume: Pocket, 352 pages
Contents
• The Unborn Child
• The Earliest Human Relationships
• Mind in the Making
• The Development of the Ego
• Relationships With the Family
• The Child at School
• The Onset of Adolescence
• The Problems of the Teenager
• Fitness for Life
• The Meaning of Marriage
• Marriage and Divorce
• Sexual Relations in Marriage
• Family Planning
• Alternatives to Marriage
• Homosexuality
• Prostitution
• Sadism and Masochism
• Sexual anomalies
• Wife or Mistress
• The Individual and Society
• The Mass Mind
• Man in the Machine Age
• The Problem of the Outsider
• The Psychology of War and Peace
• The Need for religion
• The Final Synthesis
Contents
Two cells - uniting in a womb and beginning a new life on earth - must be considered a miracle,
which has been the only way to contribute to eternal life. The author follows life through childhood,
adolescence and into maturity.
The book documents ancient and modern (that is: 1959 !) attitudes to important social and
psychological elements of matrimony, birth control, sex, conception, abortion, celibacy, frigidity,
masturbation, homosexuality.
The symbolism behind these elements has been altered by slowly varying and modified or lost
religious concepts.

Review
The book does try to repair damage done by altered views but does not try to reconstruct
fundamental views.
Most of these symbols however will be seen differently if viewed from another perspective -
viewed from the perspective of the original androgynous religion.
These mysterious outlines have been secret contributions and religious elements for centuries, but in
modern times they are being dismantled and disintegrated. Chesser describes the medical and
psychological details with great care. However the mystery has been deprived from the miracle's
ideas. It would be a good idea to return to the Roots of ancient religion in order to restore the old
stabilizing fundamentals.
In Christian Church matrimony is a sacrament, and it cannot be dissolved once it has been
completed (124).
My Comments:
In fact basic structures in Indo-European languages do contain a great number of religious details
referring to marriage, copulation and birth.
Obviously ancient priests must have been coding basic ideas into language.
The most important words in language and ideas are the pronouns, even if they may have been kept
secret in some languages.
Pronouns are basic religious elements.
The pronouns I and you (U) are male and female basic elements in English and in any other Indo-
European language (io in Spanish and Italian), and they symbolize the male and female genitals.
Androgynous combinations of pronouns result in combined, religious word-symbols such as:
Ius, just, justice, juvenile, d'Iu-piter,
God, good, evil, witch, twilight ...
A great number of other symbols has been in use: the colours purple, red and blue symbolizing
divine, female and male elements.
The keys to religious symbolism has vanished and disrupted by eradication. Chesser at least tries to
clarify the remaining fundamentals and documents the perpetual evolution of symbolism in time.

Notes
• According to ancient Greeks (and referring to Plato's Symposion): Love = Longing for
perfect union between man and woman is what we know as love. (Page 11)
• My comment: The author excludes love between man and man, respectively woman and
woman as described in Plato's Symposium. (Page 11)
• Each ejaculation produces 250 million of sperms, oh which 30% may be infertile (13)
• Freud: Oral and Anal stages (35)
• Jesuit idea: Give me a child for the first 7 years... (64)
• Sodom and Gomorrah are the Cities of the Plain .
Original Title: Sodome et Gomorrhe Part I (1921) and Part II (1922)
In effect Marcel Proust starts his book Cities of the Plain by quoting in Part I: "Introducing
the men-women, descendants of those of the inhabitants of Sodom who were spared by the
fire from heaven".
"La femme aura Gomorrhe et l'homme aura Sodome" - Alfred de Vigny - (69)
Proust refers to homosexual activity as: "inversion". Chesser calls "true" homosexuality,
(excluding bi-sexuality) "inversion".
• The Devil = Id (the basic instinct) (71)
• The attribute "sex" in God and religion (76)
• "Tomboy" (79)
• The Church: Man and woman marry themselves (124)
• In Christian Church matrimony is a sacrament, and it cannot be dissolved once it has been
completed (124).
• "The Moon and Sixpence" is a novel by Somerset Maugham, based on the life of the French
artist Gauguin, who was a successful stockbroker with a wife and children until he leaves his
wife, gives up work and goes to Paris to study art. (132).
• The Red Queen told Alice: "you have to run very fast in order to stay in the same place"
(132).
• Reference to St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, in which marriage is regarded as a
mere concession of weakness and woman is degraded to a passive receptacle for the relief
of her husband's sexual passion: "But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better
to marry than to burn". Ir was considered shameful for a woman to enjoy intercourse (139).
• Paul condemned the pleasure of the flesh. The great Church Father Origen castrated
himself : impossible - if he had not equated sex with purely genital satisfaction (141).
• Eve was not believed to have been created separately, but fashioned out of Adam's rib (141).
• None of the main Protestant Churches forbids contraception (149).
• Onan: Any manufacture of semen -even for a medical test- that is not directly intended for
reproduction is unnatural and therefore sinful. (150).
• Roman Catholic Church will not permit pregnancy to be terminated even to save the life of
the mother. The foetus possesses an immortal soul fro conception (152).
• John Stuart Mill narrowly escaped a police prosecution for distributing neo-Malthusian
literature (154).
• Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in Central Criminal Court, sentenced to 6 month's
imprisonment and a 200 Pounds fine. The verdict however was squashed on appeal on
technical grounds (154).
• The nun regards herself as the mystical bride of Christ and wears a wedding ring on her right
hand (160).
• The temptations of Soeur Jeanne in the Ursuline nuns convent of Loudon in the 17th century

(160).
• <<Lucian quoted>>: The worshippers (the Galli -??-) of the Syrian goddess Astarte were not
content to make a vow of chastity: they castrated themselves (165).
• Association of hair with sex, e.g. Samson and Delilah (165).
• The Cathari (exterminated by Simon de Montford) were abstinent from sexual intercourse,
but according to accusations from the Inquisition they avoided procreation by practicing
("Bulgar") coitus per anum (167).
• Homosexuality: The trial of Oscar Wilde. The Foreign Minister Lord Castlereagh
committed suicide (172).
• Sodomy is anal intercourse and the name derives from a misreading of the Bible (173).
• Reporting homosexuality in prisons-of-war in WW II (176)
• Socrates was both homosexual and a married man. -> Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde (179).
• Passwords (camp, sissy, queen, screaming, rent... ) for the homosexual underworld (179-
180).
• Homosexuality in parts of New Guinea - the Trobrianders - the Nambas of the New
Hebrides (185).
• Platonic Love is love between man and man (Symposium, page 185).
• The Theban Sacred Band is a shock troop of 300 youths, fighting for Greek freedom and
consisting of homosexual pairs, fighting side by side. They were annihilated in the battle of
Chaeronea and Philip - the father of Alexander - is said to have wept at the pitiful spectacle
(186).
• The ancient Greeks did not permit pederasty: there were laws against the seduction of
children as well as against rape and prostitution (187).
• Henry VIII made homosexuality a felony and the punishment was death. This remained the
law of England until 1825, in which the maximum punishment was imprisonment for life
(187).
• Prostitution is defined as commercialized sex (195).
• Bertrand Russell wrongly concludes that prostitution began as a religious cult and in his
book Marriage and Morals he writes: "Prostitution was not always the despised and hidden
thing that is has become. Its origin, indeed is as loft as could be. Originally the prostitute
was a priestess dedicated to a god or goddess, and in serving a passing stranger she was
performing an act of worship. In those days she was treated with respect, and while men
used her they honoured her." Of course in our definition this cannot be called prostitution
(199).
• Originally every woman before marriage was required to sit in the temple, with a cord
around her, until a stranger broke the cord and had intercourse with her. She was then free to
leave; but if she were unattractive she might have to remain here for months and even
years...
We are conditioned that we think the real shame would be to have intercourse with a passing
stranger, not to be refused ... (199).
• The possibility of sexual intercourse being a religious exercise and a way of holiness seems
bizarre and shocking. Yet in other times and places our own attitude would have seemed and
been just as perverse. To an ancient Egyptian or Babylonian sex was a manifestation of the
divine, creative power that brought the world into being and sustained it. This Power was
personified as the Great Mother, a goddess worshipped under a variety of names and
associated with the ides of fertility.
...To be ashamed of sex was therefore as unnatural as to be ashamed of eating. Gods and
goddesses were freely depicted in the act of coitus, as indeed they are today in many Indian
temples, where carvings of the lingam (male organ) and yoni (vagina) are exhibited for

veneration... (199).
• So-called temple-prostitutes did not offer themselves for gain. The stranger they served gave
money to the temple and believed this act were meritorious. Local inhabitants were not
allowed to resort to her. Defloration was regarded as a solemn sacrifice of the hymen to the
goddess and had to be performed by a stranger. A similar notion lies behind the "Ius primae
noctis" that conceded to a priest or chief to be the first to have intercourse with a bride. The
bridegroom in many tribal societies does not want to the task of rupturing the hymen. He
believes that only an exceptional being - shamans or strangers - dare take the occult risk
involved (200).
• When sex was commercialised in the corruption of Roman Empire some of the temples and
many of the public baths became no better than brothels. Against this depravity the Christian
Church and the pagan philosophers started their protests (201).
• Wives were used for breeding and sex for pleasure was sought outside the home (201).
• Solon, the famous Greek law-giver, established the first public brothel of which we have any
record. The prostitutes were all slaves. Brothels were under municipal supervision and
owners had to pay a special tax. Prostitutes were drawn from slaves and foreigners, and the
shoe of one of them has been preserved with the words "follow me" nailed on the sole (201).
• Hetairae and modern courtesans (comparable to a Geisha in Japan);
- Thais was the mistress of Alexander. After his death she married Ptolemy I, King of Egypt.
- the lovely flute-player Lamia of Athens
- Phryne, who has been modeled by Praxiteles
- Aspasia, who kept a regular brothel and on whose account Pericles divorced his wife
- modern Nell Gwyn, the favourite of Charles II was brought up in a brothel
- modern Madame du Barry who dominated Louis XV for five years had been a woman of
the streets (202).
• Brothels were leased by the Church of Rome itself (203).
• Schopenhauer: the prostitute is a human sacrifice on the altar of monogamy (211).
• Sadism (enjoying inflicting pain; Sadism has been derived from the Marquis de Sade) and
masochism (the reverse of sadism) (215)
• Love and hate are so intimately connected that one can easily be transformed into the other
and - which is stranger still - they can co-exist (217).
• Biography of the Marquis de Sade, born 2. 7. 1740. who did spend 27 years in prison (219).
• The brothel in Deer Park in Versailles (220)
• Baron Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1835-95) -> Masochism (226)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover (227)
• Mass-flagellation in the 13th century (227)
• Theresa Berkeley (228)
• In English law sodomy may result in a divorce (232)
• Special US-laws in different states in 1959 (233)
• Orthodox Jews Code forbade intercourse in the nude (233)
• Fetishism (235)
• From his future wife Christiana Walpius 54-year old Goethe requests her dance-slippers as a
fetish (236)
• Auditory Fetishism -> Bolero / Ravel (238)
• stages of growth: Oral / anal / phallic / latent period / puberty / maturity (239)
• Co-operation (260)
• Democracy in Athens (263)
• Aristotle: Man is a political animal (264)

• Freedom is a luxury of civilisations (264)
• It is said that man makes God in his own image (265)
• The German word "Gemeinschaftsgef?hl" is untranslatable (268)
• Neuritic people lack cortical control and become anti-social (273)
• Fatherland <-> Mother country (275)
• The vast reservoir of ancient ideas (277)
• The state as parent (or as God ?) (279)
• Unscrupulous governments (282)
• Misfits (2 kinds of misfits are known: no contributions / positive contributions) (300)
• Idiotes (Outsiders) are: Diogenes, Socrates, Homosexuals, St. Paul, Luther, Loyola
Scientific amateurs as outsiders are: Darwin, Huxley, Ross, Einstein (302)
• Erich Fromm: "Fear of Freedom" (304)
• Genuinely independent thinking is rather seldom (307)
• Aggression (312)
• Sartre: "Man is a useless passion" (325)
• A.N. Whitehead (326)
• A psychoanalyst is analysed before allowed to analyse patients (334)
• The penalty of egotism is loneliness (352)
• Martin Buber: The I-It-relationship must be replaced by a I-Thou-relationship (352)
->> Obviously this idea is equivalent to the Tu-Isco-relationship in androgynous creation
legends referring to German Creatorgod Tuisco:

29. The Jewel in the Lotus - by Allen Edwardes (1959)
• Author: Allen Edwardes, a sexologist, linguist, and biblical scholar who was part of the
circle around R. E. L. Masters and Albert Ellis46 .
• Subtitle: A historical Survey of the sexual Culture of the East (1959)
• Introduction: by Albert Ellis
• Tandem Books (reprinted 1965)
• Pocketbook, 272 pages
• Summary: Studies in Human Sexuality: A Selected Guide
Contents
1. Woman: Passive Creature
2. Genitalia: Symbolism and Reality
3. Circumcision: Blood Covenant
4. Auto-erotism: Sterile pleasures
5. Female Prostitution: Luxurious Custom
6. Eunuchism: Honour in Dishonour
7. Sexual Perversion: Matter of Taste
8. Hygiene: Ritualistic Compulsion
Notes
• Sir Richard Burton: "the more I study religion, the more I am convinced that man never
worshipped anything but himself" (17).
• The eclipse as the joining phase for the male and the female planets (sun & moon)
• Jetstone (page 55)
• Testicles to testify, → testament, … (72)
• thorn-apple seed (datura) (85)
• Colonel Condom (122)
• Androgynous deities (192)
• "It is interesting to note the use of the personal "you" in place of "thou", indicative of
intimate (homosexual) familiarity in the East". Among men and boys the personal pronoun
was common; the impersonal, plus the masculine and neuter genders, were used only in
conversation with females (page 217)
• Dumdum bulltes (211)
The color symbolism

In a first reading I had not recognized the color symbolism, which has been deocumented at a great
number of pages:
• red:
as a red dye in festivals and for wall paintings (gulaul, at page 24 & 57),
as body painting (27),
in a red stone lingam (35),
in a red & white trident emblem (→ Vishnu-bhukteh sect, 56)
in a lingam (crimson-splashed) and a black circular stone (yoni) (58)
46 Orientalist Camp: The Case of Allen Edwardes

as red dots as caste mark (76),
in red-daubed wooden phalli and lingams of red clay (79),
in garments and red-tinted lips (158)
• red, orange, (or even green and saffron) as body painting (29)
• crimson : robes (61) and in carnal instruments tinted in deep crimson (27, 76), lingam &
yoni (59), (81),
• black (58), black stone as a yoni (112)
• A courtesan's face dotted with indigo & hands and her feet dyed red by henna (118)
• purple and red at page 158

30. To kill a Mockingbird – by Harper Lee (1960)
• Dedication: for Mr. Lee and Alice in consideration of Love & Affection
• Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1961
• 376 pages
Notes
• Winston County North Alabama (21)
• The crash did hit the farmers (27)
• Spitting to seal oral contracts (28)
• Smatter ? = What's the matter ? (70)
• It is a sin to kill a mocking bird (119)
• Part 2 (150)
Special vocabulary (incomplete list)

• spittoon (5)
• unsullied (5)
• teemed (10)
• vapid (10)
• stumphole (12)
• flivver (12)
• cannas (14)
• sneer (18)
• foray (18)
• panting (19)
• snarl (23)
• hilt (27)
• sojourn (29)
• hearty (55)
• aloof (55)
• foolhardy (55)
• eyeteeth (57)
• hanker (60)
• snug (62)
• scuttle (63)
• trudge (64)
• to barge in (65)
• collard (69)
• beckon (69)
• bawle (74)
• gnat (78)

31. The Country Girls Trilogy – by Edna O'Brien (1960)
The Country Girls

• Subtitled: green as Ireland, Cait and Baba47
• Dedicated: to my Mother
• Edition: Penguin Books
• Reception: The Irish censor banned the book. The family's parish priest publicly burned
copies of the novel. (→ The Country Girls)
• Part 1 of a trilogy, in which both The Country Girls and Girl With Green Eyes can be found
on the list of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die48
• period of time for the episode: 1950-1952 (page 110)
O'Brien's The Country Girls: a brilliant jewel in literature!

The Country Girls49 is a splendid psychological study in a wonderful, fascinating English, which
greatly expanded my vocabulary and imagination. No other book provided me with more new
words than this novel. The book reminds me of “The Catcher in the Rye” in its style and wordings
and I liked the experience of reliving some of these teenager's episodes in an Irish town.
Some of the details remembered me of my time in the boarding school 1960-1966, which must have
been the episode of the novel's story. In fact I never did read a novel which precisely hit the
atmospheric density to allow me to feel reset to my youth at that school.
Edna O'Brien invited me to enjoy the same smells I found in the cold wardrobe full of wet clothes,
the darkness of the gloomy school's corridors at night, the chalk at the green blackboards, the
weekly showers at Saturdays, the discipline indoctrinated by the prefect and his constables. I
remember the music we heard, the sounds at the dormitory and the silly punishments, which might
have been working to discipline a dog:
“Baba was put standing for three hours in the chapel, because Sister Margaret overheard her
saying the Holy Name”50. For a similar futility I had been put standing at the radiator in front
of the director's doorstep.
Education in the most catholic boarding school of the Netherlands may have been the reason for
correlating my episodes with the country girls' experiences. Daily attending Mass early in the
morning had been our fate as well51. In the chapel I remember a white, marble holy water font and
an upstairs gallery in the chapel as well, where the invisible nuns followed Mass. Some of us said
they had observed the nuns in a pillow fight, but we all thought these were rumors.
I recognized Baba's teasing and provoking as the cruelty between “friends”, which obviously had to
be developed to grow up from childhood to puberty and adults. Of course some of the years we had
a retreat with lectures and prayers. We also had a lecture on “boys, girls, sex and things” 52. “All the
lonesome sounds of Ireland and the Netherlands seemed to have been similar” (174).
47 Cait and Baba are the story's protagonists.

48 The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien, Penguin Books (1960)
49 The Country Girls, ISBN 0-14-001851-4
50 Page 89
51 Page 80
52 page 111

Yes, Caithleen's story filled my mind for a couple of days up to the reincarnation level. I know it's
silly, but if there is a criterion for good literature it should be defined according to the degree of
incarnating into the protagonist.Reading the book I felt like reliving my boardings school years way
back in that red brick building53, which had been torn down long ago.
I studied Edna O'Brien's biography and understood her case after being raised in "a strict, religious
family” and an education at the National School in Scarriff, the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy in
Loughrea (1941–46) and the Pharmaceutical College in Dublin. Certainly she also reused some of
her own memories for her novel. The reincarnation thought of a novel's reader seemed to work best
if for a reader and protagonist, which had been placed in the same or a similar situation.
I suggested the idea of writing a sort of parallel lives the way Plutarch described the correlations
between Greeks and Romans. Maybe the idea needs some time to ripen.
Fast
I also detected a logical error in the novel:
At page 37 the novel claims: “Martha was what the villagers called fast”. The meaning of
“fast” however is explained years later by Baba to an innocent and unknowing Kate at page
86: “A 'fast' woman is a woman, who has a baby quicker than another woman” (86).
Remarks
• brussels sprouts has been spelled with lower case letter “b” (?) (26)
• “A 'fast' woman is a woman, who has a baby quicker than another woman” (86)
• Rooms which never had been used (151)
• “No juice” = 'no use' (152)
• “all the lonesome sounds of Ireland” (174)
Rich vocabulary
A very rich vocabulary seems may enrich the reader's vocabulary for the trilogy. I listed the words
in the chapters, which had been uncommon to me before reading The Country Girls. I checked
some of these words in a dictionary and learned a lot to enrich and improve my English
Thesaurus54.
1. dainty (10), purty (→ pretty) (11), The Kerry Order (- two heads on one pillow), flag (→
stone) (11, 31), steam, chit, fudge, eejit (= idiot) (12, 21), ragwort (13), Black-and-Tan →
Black and Tans (13, 28), forbear, briar(13).
2. indubitably (15), paddock (17), Jeyes Fluid (20), soppy,
3. dunce (22), cardigan, mope (11,22), scullery, nudge (23), ciderette (→ Cider), fray, feck
(25), musty (26), forge, to fuss (→ fussing birds), jigs & reels (→ The music of Ireland: Jigs
and reels), dribble (28), bantams (29), daft (30), wellingtons, what-not (~altar), Infant of
Prague (→ Infant Jesus of Prague), kerb, covet, sallow, ewer(32), garish, toff (35),
4. pansy (36), mantelshelf, Saltcellar, fast55 (37, 86), chiffon, trifle, reprove, snigger, get out of
this dive (38), blackhead, Aga cooker (39), sodden, cutlery, doyley, gallivant, plait (41), pod,
brazen, bathe,
53 Diary Fragments 1960-1966 (Dutch)

54 The links refer to the English or German equivalents of the words. Numbers in brackets refer to the chapters of the
Penguin edition
55 “A 'fast' woman is a woman, who has a baby quicker than another woman” (86)

5. cissiyish56 (43), eiderdowns, midge (44), alsatian (dog), haughty, sequin, puce, uncouth (45),
elderberry, frilly, smirking, antimacassar (49), aul song, thud (52),
6. astute (55), rasher, jackdaws, scarecrow, yahoo, bawneen, mott, wheelbarrow, poultice,
7. mooning(65),
8. banister(71), lozenge(72), Yorkshire relish(74), mopey, varicose(77), alotted (allot), squint,
stoop, munch(79),
9. limp(80), dandruff, frock, haunch, sly, freckle, mortification, gaol, slug(85), tapioca, suck a
boil, dole, fast, hickish,
10. crochet(89), chilblains, divide it over (91), barm-brack, stingy, tangerine, dun (94), calve,
reek, nutmeg, coy, maudlin (97),
11. plump(98), obliquely, bonnet, moron, peevish, trinket, turkey market(101), holly, shred,
tinsel, colleen, grate, clinker, take a fit, form, colander, beckon (103), raspberry cordial,
smell of must, fiver (5 pound bills) (105), hydrangea, palsy, pleat, ointment,
12. maidenhair fern (111), nut-house(114), bee-line, loathsome, wainscoting, palpitate, crippled
with corns(120),
13. jubilee nurse (121), till, perusal, pinafore, vexed, beef tea(123), craw-thumper(127), giddy,
brazen, gawky, russet (131),
14. peal (132), oblong, sallow, rakish, mackintosh, tassel, ravenous, loganberry, skivvy,
hopscotch, picky beds, gas, thimble (137), drip, coop, scald, ceilidh, spire,trudge, mohawk,
chenille,
15. coddle(146), scoop, slink, slane, bulrush, plush, curlew, Uileann pipe, Billy Tuohey, suet,
wither, languid, sleek, hag, clove, currant, peckish, wicker,
16. thrift(151), sumptuous, simnel, “No juice” = “no use”, nudge, one or other, crevice, lichen,
slop, wanton, ply,
17. chandelier(158), huff, coo, furry, sulky, demurely, starch,
18. fidgety, mop cap, paisley, pallor, shop bun, giddy, bulrush, curlew,
19. shirk (178), blanch, hickish, beseech, cocoa,
20. pelt (184), blotchy
Girl with Green Eyes (1962)

• Original title: the lonely girl (1962)
• Dedication: For Ernest Gébler
• Edition: Penguin Books
Notes
• Girls in love do not think anything special (26)
• Life is not solved by success but by failure (50)
• Making love: Something unmentionable which a woman had to pretend to like to please to
please a husband (56)
• I had never made decisions in my life (63)
• Act of Perfect Contrition (103)
• Only with our bodies we forgive (179)
• Lovers are strangers (191) (→ in asking a partner: “Do you use sugar?) (191)
• Young girls are like a stone (193)
• Advocaat (199)
56 Sissy \s(is)-sy\ as a girl's name. Diminutive form of Cecilia (Latin) "blind one". Also a common nickname for a
sister. Read more at http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Sissy#8CxSjDqLu4BFbug1.99

Girls in their Married Bliss (1964)57
• Dedication: For Ted Allan
• Edition: Phoenix
Notes
• My garret was freezing (5)
• Flowers instead of friends (17)
• Poltergeist (71)
English variants
The trilogy reveals some English variants I had learned to avoid (especially in combinations with
“say” such as:
• 'What's up,” says I (2, 9) instead of What's up? I said.
• They began to meet oftener (15)
• 'Stop worrying,...' said he to me.. (46)
• 'How did you get to be a poet?' said he real awed (48)
• 'Look,' said I (51) instead of: 'Look,' I said
• Have you a black brassiere? He said (62) instead of: Do you have a black brassiere)
• 'We ought to offer her a drink,' says he. (69)
• Who had started the oftenest (75)
• 'He usen't to like me,' Kate said (164)
These are being used in combination with the standards such as:
• 'So have you,' I said (69)
• 'Get out of here,' he said (69)
Structure
The 12 chapters have been dedicated to the protagonists:
• Baba: chapter 1-6-7-10
• Narrator: chapter 2,3,4,5,8,9,11,12
57 The most gifted woman now writing fiction in English (Philip Roth)

32. Truth, Myth, and Symbol–Thomas J.J. Altizer and others (1962)
• Edited by Thomas J.J. Altizer, William A. Beardslee, J. Harvey Young (1962)
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Dedication: For Ernest Cadman Colwell.
• Referenced: The Struggle of the Monetary Logos Against the Mythos and Truth - "The
Problem of Truth"
Notes
The work has been structured in 2 sections:
1. The Problem of Truth
• The Problem of Truth – by Richard Hocking
• Scientific Truth and the Scientific Method – by J.H. Goldstein
• Truth in the Social Sciences – by Helmut Schoeck
• Truth in History – by Walter D. Love
• Literature and Reality – by Walter A. Strauss
• Truth in the Study of Religion – by William A. Beardslee
2. Myth and Symbol

• Myth in Myth – by Robert L. Scranton
• The religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol – by Thomas J.J. Altizer
• Symbol and Myth in Philosophy – by Leroy E. Loemker
• The Literature Uses Myth and Symbol – by Ward Pafford
• Symbol and Myth in Modern Rationalistic Societies – Gregor Sebba
Studying The Problem of Truth58

Studying Truth, Myth, and Symbol – by Thomas J.J. Altizer and others (1962) I wondered about the
revolutionary shift of paradigms the truth must have experienced and tried to extrapolate my
expectations of the complete reversal the idea of truth and the connected words such as trust,
alliance, friendship, civilization and things may have endured.
In this work I found a complete deterioration of old values and a new generation of topics which
never had been expected by experienced scientists in 1962.
Those days I was kid at school, in which religion was taught in biblical fashions, starting with
Adam and Eve in Paradise, some rather harmless sins – harmless compared to what in Jeckyl Island
had been hacked out about half a dozen decades before...
I already had been analyzing the chapter set Myth and Symbol in The Struggle of the Monetary
Logos Against the Mythos, which I found quite interesting and informative. However “The Problem
of Truth” seemed to be unbalanced and incomplete. It did not cover the range of today's Truth and
probably had been ignoring vast areas of deceit in 1962, at the time it had been written and
composed.
In the chapter The Problem of Truth the already most relevant areas economy, politics, education,
and media were missing, although at least politics and media should have deserved at least a
minimal attention. And truth in education would have been the most relevant topic to start an
academic overview of “The Problem of Truth”.
58 Truth - "The Problem of Truth"

If this book is worth the paper that has been investing in the publishing effort, I surely respect the
insight, which is being generated by identifying the veiling of the truth in academic publications.
However I guess the scholars didn't really intend to cover the crime and fraud in the areas of
banking, economy and politics. They simply didn't see the obvious crime in the way earlier peoples
did not see any harm in slavery.
Business always had been relying on smart bankers and clever politicians. Being smart included to
use the laws for your purpose without being caught. Such cleverness earned respect for socially
successful citizens. The problem of truth is a problem of respect.
If anybody does not respect another he may use any tool to do harm. This is a fundamental insight.
As soon as respect had been lost we will degrade society to a living hell, in which nobody will be
feeling secured. It's the jungle from which archaic man may have thought to escape. And now he is
going to return to his fatherland...
Myth and Symbol 59
The Religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol – by Thomas J.J. Altizer

Myth – or, more properly myth-ritual – brings order, meaning, and structure to the world of
religious symbol. Mythical language cannot employ concepts; it must use images and symbols
which resist all genuine rational meaning. (90)
Historically, logos arose through the collapse of mythos, and the man who lives under the spell of
logos – that is the man of the higher civilizations – can never fully enter the mystery of mythos. (90)
In a certain sense, it is true that myth belongs to the world of archaic man. Consequently modern
man is doomed to live in a a-mythical world. (91)
Human existence as we know it (Heidegger's Dasein, Sartre's pour soi and so on) is a mode of
existence alienated to the sacred. Modern man, Faustian man, has chosen the goal of autonomous
freedom (91).
Modern man becomes himself by a process of desacralization: as Nietzsche saw, he must become
the murderer of God. Eliade himself has referred to this modern situation as a second fall. (92)
The only reality which modern man can know, as reality, is wholly profane: modern knowledge is
Faustian knowledge: it arises out of the dissolution of the sacred. (92)
The sacred can only be defined as the polar opposite of the profane (93).
There are three basic types of religious mythology, arising out of (1) archaic religion 60, (2) mystical
religion, and (3) prophetic-eschatological religion (96).
In the Axial Age61 of history a transition from a Mythical Age to the modern period of the
universality of history occurred. Commonly this period is interpreted as entailing a struggle of the
logos against mythos (98).
The higher religions are grounded in a revolutionary transformation of the archaic tradition (99).
59The Struggle of the Monetary Logos Against the Mythos

60 Outside the higher civilizations of history – including preagricultural and agricultural societies (the former
revolving about a Sky God and the latter about an Earth Mother) (page 96)
61 As defined by Karl Jaspers - The Origin and Goal of History (1953)

Pre-exilic prophetic oracles expect a cataclysmic judgment (100). In the context of the
announcement of the coming of Yahweh, the world itself loses its solidity (102). For the imminent
advent of God is associated with an absolute form of world-reversal (102). Kingdom of God is now
breaking into time and thus already the world is passing away. Thus, to the believer, the values of
the world are being reversed: the reversal of the process of creation (103).
Symbol and Myth in Modern Rationalistic Societies – by Gregor Sebba

Is there any room left for myth?
Myth, they say, thrives in the night of ignorance; it may linger on in the twilight of uncertainty, but
the clear light of reason will kill it in the end. Others find that myth serves and important social
function which guarantees its survival even in advanced societies (141).
The above article of Thomas J.J. Altitzer rejects the notion that myth is false belief and denies that
modern rationalist society is capable of having myths in the true sense of the word. Modern man is
“doomed to live in an a-mythical world.” (141)
All viewpoints stress the incompatibility of myth and rationalism. The second view is more realistic
than the first: it recognizes that even false belief can have an essential social function. But is myth
really nothing but a false belief? (141)

33. Silent Spring - by Rachel Carson (1962)
• Size: pocketbook, 304 pages
• published: U.S.A. 1962
• language: English
Contents
In 17 chapters the scientist Rachel Carson clearly demonstrates the effect of incompetent producing,
selling and using of chemicals to control nature.
Notes
• This book has been a best-seller
• A devastating number of well-documented examples for severe accidents may have been
leading to some more restrictions in using chemicals.
• The most striking detail is the description of absolute ignorance at authorities, so-called
experts and other individuals, which certainly may be seen in any other scientific application
of new "inventions" and technical applications.
• Unfortunately this alarming book has been unable to influence nuclear and genetic
chemistry.
• Rachel Carson concludes the manuscript: <<"The control of nature is a phrase conceived in
arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed
that nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and practices of applied
entomology for the most parts date from that Stone Age of science. It is our alarming
misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible
weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the
earth">>. (This conclusion may very well be valid for nuclear and gen-technology).
• Obviously Rachel Carson has not been heard everywhere. With the aid of the "Animal
Health Board" the Department of "Conservation" in New Zealand still spreads enormous
quantities of lethal poison NaFAc (Natrium-mono-fluoracetate, distributed as "1080") each
year to kill the "possums", Trichosurus vulpecula (opussum). NaFAc however will kill any
other animal feeding on the dead animals or poison and the natural waters are being polluted
by NaFAc, killing the fish and the birds. At last Rachel Carsons "Silent Spring" now seems
to be reaching the end of the world in the rain forests of New Zealand. (Information from:
Backnanger Kreiszeitung, 21. Augst 2008).

34. America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard (1963)
• America's Great Depression, by Murray Rothbard
• Ludwig von Mises Institute
• size: 418 pages
Notes62
The following list is a standard screenplay for a crisis, which I derived from Murray Rothbard's
„America's Great Depression“.
Events from the Past (of the current crisis)

The screenplay seems to follow a list of events, which more or less may follow a standard path:
• concentration on keeping certain components of inflation stable (and ignore the others)63
• the survival of bankrupt “too big to fail”-formatted banks (dated 1929-1931)64
• the initiation of deflation
• initiation of hoarding and the fear for bank runs65
• initiation of cheap money policy (dated 1929 and 1931 in Murray Rothbard's „America's
Great Depression“) to be followed by an outflow of gold
• raising taxes instead of cutting governmental costs (dated 1929 )
• weakening the bankruptcy laws (e.g. for insurances)66
• gigantic effort to inflate the money supply (dated early 1933 in Murray Rothbard's
„America's Great Depression“)
Events for the Future (of the current crisis)

The preceding events already have been observed. The following events still belong to the future of
the current crisis:
• loss of confidence in the currency (dated 1933 in Murray Rothbard's „America's Great
Depression“)
• a summit in the number of “failing banks” (first quarter of 1933)67
• the starting phase of “bank holidays”68
• “ramming through” the required laws69
• closing all banks (dated March 4,1933)
• publish a list, for full public scorn, of the leading “gold hoarders”70 (dated 6-12 March
193371)
62 Analysis in: The Monetary Crisis (51) - Review of Murray Rothbard's „America's Great Depression“
63 page ccxiii (217)
64 page ccxcix (303)
65 page cccxlviii (352)
66 page ccclxv (369)
67 page ccclxvi (370)
68 quotation of H. Parker Willis - “A Crisis in American Banking,” America's Great Depression, by Murray Rothbard,
page ccclxix (373)
69 page ccclxix (373)
70 page ccclxx (374)
71 Great Depression - Mises Wiki

• the destruction of the property rights of bank depositors72
• the confiscation of gold73 (dated 9. March 1933)74
• the taking away of the people’s monetary rights75
• placing of the Federal Government in control of a vast, managed, engine of inflation76
72 page ccclxxi (375)

74 Gold confiscation: Why U.S. gov`t did it in 1933

35. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
• 3 Volumes , 1376 pages (in a pdf-file)
• Feynman, Leighton and Sands
• Addiso-Wesley Publishing Company (Reading, MASS)
• ISBN: 0-201-02117-X-P
• Library of Congress: 63-20717
• Bosch-Nr.: RK 53 FEX, (investigated: 15.12.1993)
Notes:
• Volume 1. Mainly mechanics, radiation, and heat
Polarization (33), Relativistic effects in radiation (34), Quantum behavior 77(37)
The basis of science is its ability to predict (page 38-9)
• Volume 2. Mainly electromagnetism and matter
• Neutron model part II, principle of minimum action, page 19-12
• Fine analysis of lightnings.
Electrical field strength of 100 V/m is located at the earth's surface and the earth is
charged by negative charged particles.
Ionic currents amount to a mean value of 10 pA / square meter, summing up to 1800
Amperes (varying at 15%) at ca. 400 kilovolts and 700 Megawatts on a global scale.
If there would not be any external supply the big battery would be emptied within 30
minutes. The current is at a maximum level at 19:00 o'clock GMT, and at a minimum
at 04:00 o'clock GMT.
In 1994 I did some calculations to find out why these max/min-values occur at these
time stamps. I guess it depends on a direct flow of the sun-radiation flow towards the
Atlantic and mayor parts of the Pacific Ocean (including the American continent) at
19:00 o'clock GMT. At this time the resistance may reach a minimum by "good
conducting sea water" (?).
It is easy to check these parameters with Google-Earth.
At high altitudes a common conductor exists. Discharging the power is maintained
by 40.000 thunderstorms / day, charging the earth at 1800 Amperes. Each lightning
discharges at 20 up to 30 Coulombs. The discharge will be equalized within 5
seconds, corresponding to a current of 20/5 = 4 Amperes.
Lightnings start by initiating a discharge at 1/6 of the speed of light, at which a spark
bridges a distance of 50 meters and waits for 50 microseconds. These discharges are
repeating until the sparks hit the earth's surface. The column now is filled with
negative charged particles, ionizing the air at high collision-speeds. The (maximum
10.000 Amperes) current flows from earth to the clouds, generating an intense white
light. Explosions are generating the thunder. A few milliseconds later a second of a
whole series of succesive lightnings will be generated. If a lightning front approaches
a tall building it may generate high field strengths at needle-shaped extensions. The
fields may be excessive for small values of the curvatures radius.
77 The complete theory of quantum mechanics bases on the correctness of the uncertainty principle (page 37-9)

See extra info at ball-lightnings78
It may be an interresting idea to investigate an increase of these currents and powers
by global warming of the atmosphere. In theory there should be no increase in 1800
Amperes (varying at 15%) at ca. 400 kilovolts and 700 Megawatts on a global scale.
(->> from my summary, published in RB Elektronica, jan 1995)
• Volume 3. Quantum mechanics
78 Modeling Lightnings

36. In Cold Blood - by Truman Capote (1965)
• Subtitled: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
• Publisher: A Signet Book (1965)
• Devoted to: For Jack Dunphy and Harper Lee with my love and gratitude
Structure
• I. The Last To See Them Alive
• II. Persons Unknown
• III. Answer
• IV. The Corner

37. Rembrandt - by Joseph-Emile Muller (1968)
• Category: biography
• Editor: Editions Aimery Somogy S.A., Paris (1968), for sales in the Netherlands and
Belgium only
• Translated from French by Brian Hooley (1968)
• Volume: DIN-A5, 272 pages, 134 plates, 58 in colour
Contents
1. Son of a miller
2. Art in a Calvinist country
3. Early compositions
4. Deciphering the human face
5. First drawings and etches
6. Fame and happiness
7. Notes in the sketchbook
8. The temptation of baroque
9. Homage to classicism
10.Landscapes and animal subjects
11.The end of an era
12.After Saskia's death
13.Essential reality
14.Hendrickje
15.Intimations of mortality
16.The master etcher
17.Ruin
18.Refusal to surrender
19.Fruits of solitude
20.A new ordeal
21.Last years
22.Survival
Notes
• Rembrandt rarely did paint really young people. Among Rembrandt's predecessors one
would search in vain for such an eagerness to display ugliness, e.g. in: "Naked Woman
seated on a Mound", (painted in 1631, page 46).

38. Picasso - the blue and rose periods - by Denys Chevalier (1969)
• Format: A4, 96 pages
• Contents: 51 reproductions in color; 20 pen and pencil
• The Uffici Press - Lugano (1969)
This book does contain some excellent reproductions of early masterpieces, painted by Picasso
between 1901 and 1906.

39. The Functions of Money in Equilibrium and Disequilibrium (1969)
• Thesis by Pieter Cornelis Bos (1969)
• # of pages: 183
• Universitaire Pers - Amsterdam
Notes
• 5 concepts (12)
• Values of commodities are expressed in money, whereas it is senseless to speak of the
“Value of money” (53)
• During inflation money prices are no longer set at an economical sound level but the more
flexible are set far above this level and the inflexible ones lag behind (74)
• Methods of calculation (such as turnover figures) that are reliable under monetary
equilibrium loose much of their significance under inflation or deflation (74).
• “During a severe inflation the old lenders die away and there are found 'no new fools'”
(Gudin, quoted in a thesis of P.C. Bos, 1969) (77)
• In Chile during the period 1937-1950 the real rate of interest was negative (-4.8%). Even
though interest rates may rise to fantastic heights such as 10-12% per month this may not
prevent economic subjects from borrowing if they can. This applies in particular to
governments and state entreprises (83).
• During monetary disequilibrium savings are not transformed smoothly into investment.
• During monetary disequilibrium money substitutes are an unavoidable evil. They involve
more real cost than money itself (85).
• Inflation, Deflation (money as “store of value”), Reflation, Disinflation, monetary paradoxes
(89-91)
• Serious deflation will be found (except for catastrophes such as 1930) only where economic
subjects combined are not interested in economic progress (93)

40. The Camera and I - by Joris Ivens (1969)
• Author: Joris Ivens
• Category: Autobiography
• Publisher: Seven Seas Book
• Volume: Pocket, 280 pages, ca. 30 b/w-photographs
Contents
• The History of this Book
• Holland
• U.S.S.R.
• Borinage
• Spain
• China
• U.S.A.
• A Few Observations, 1945-1967
• Addendum
• The Films
Notes
• Glass blowers rarely live beyond the age of 45 and earn only 10% more than their fellow
workers (Philips-Radio, also known as Industrial Symphony, Netherlands, 1931) (page 64).
• Daylight does not exist for the Borin miners, and except for Sundays he never sees the
sunshine (Borinage, Belgium, 1933) (81).
• A lack of decent plumbing keeps the men, women and children of the Borinage permanently
grimy. (84).
• When filming inside the Philips factory it had been impossible to go outside; in the Borinage
it was quite the opposite - it was impossible to go inside the mines (85).
• Help from Dos Pasos for The Spanish Earth (Spain in Flames, 1937) (110)
• The village priest had used the room as an office, where payments were made to the church
for every child born, every couple married, every person who wore out and died. These were
not real, but "spiritual" taxes - and I think the people hated the force exerted over their
spiritual life more than any physical hardship (page 110).
• Hemingway was on his way to Spain as a correspondent for NANA, the North American
News Alliance (111).

41. Solomon - Critique of Modern Art by Frederick Solomon (1970)
• Editor: Vision
• Number of pages: 222
• Dedication: To Margot
Notes
• The symbolic value of colors, its message – for every symbol has a message – can only be
understood if its meaning is known. The Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna for instance cannot
be understood unless one knows, that is, he as heard and learned what they stand for. Even
for the uninitiated such art may be beautiful and full of atmosphere, indeed complete as to
its artistic value; but only if one knows that blue means charity and red means love will he
be able to read the paintings and understand their message (211)
• The symbols were put there to be understood, and that was not even difficult as their
meaning was handed down from generation to generation (211).
• Colors (in Oriental Carpets) have a definite meaning only for the initiate (page 217)
• “Before these (golden doors) hung a veil of equal length, of Babylonian tapestry, with
embroidery of blue and fine linen, of scarlet also and purple, wrought with marvelous skill.
Nor was this mixture of materials without its mystic meaning: it typified the universe. For
the scarlet seemed emblematical of fire, the fine linen of the earth, the blue of the air, and
the purple of the sea; the comparison in two cases being suggested by their color, and in that
of the fine linen and purple by their origin, as the one is produced by the earth and the other
by the sea. On this tapestry was portrayed a panorama of the heavens, the sign of the Zodiac
excepted79” (page 218).
79 Quotation of Josephus (37 – c. 100)– The Jewish War, Book 5, Chapter 4 – Herod's Sanctuary, Translated by H. ST.
J. Thackeray, W. Heinemann, London; G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY - From the description of the temple

42. Hans Fallada – by H.J. Schueler (1970)
• Sub-title: Humanist and Social Critic
• Publisher: Mouton
• Dedication: To my mother and to the memory of my father
Structure
1. The Plight of the “Kleinbürger”
2. Marriage and the Role of Woman
3. The Return to the Soil
4. The Isolation of the Individual
5. Hans Fallada's Legacy
Notes
A great number of quotations in German language has been included. Fallada's books describe the
hopelessness and disillusionment of the post-WWI demoralization of economical collapses. In a
coming collapse these works may be considered as quite modern!
Fallada's special features are his dialogs to fathom the depths of emotions. The dialogs probably are
difficult to translate as good as they have been written. Including the original language (without
translations) may restrict the usage of this book to readers, who are familiar with both German and
English.
• A loving loved one (eine liebende Geliebte) (page 5580).
• Matrimony is always a secrecy of a couple. Whenever this “Tabu” is not honored, the bond
of matrimony crumbles (5681)
• The meetings of a Thing (7382)
• Compassion, ultimately, is Hans Fallada's most persistent trait. (117)
Fallada's works have been written in an ancient time of dowries, unions, gaslight. Some of these
atmospheric elements may be fruitful, others will disturb the background of the narrations. It
depends on the readers' fantasy how they will work.
80 Kleiner Mann – großer Mann, alles vertauscht , p. 215

81 Kleiner Mann – großer Mann, alles vertauscht , p. 299
82 Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben pp 224-225

43. Brecht heute / Brecht today – The Brecht Yearbook #1 (1971)
• Title: Brecht heute / Brecht today
• Subtitle: Jahrbuch der internationalen Brecht Gesellschaft
• Language: bilingual (German/English)
• URL to cite for this work
• Editor: Athenäum Verlag GmbH
Structure
• See: contents
Notes
• Word-thinking is man's most precise instrument (page 66)
• Baal is a brigandly Dylan of the Germanic wilderness with an insatiable lust for all things
alive Page 83).
• “Das Mensch“ is a denigrating expression for an “evil woman”. Mack repeatedly uses the
neuter word “das Mensch” for his wife. In the The Threepenny Opera Brecht also uses the
neuter word “das Mensch” in the following dialogue (page 104):
• Mac: Wisst ihr denn überhaupt was das ist: ein Mensch?
• Walter: Der Mensch oder das Mensch?
• Polly: Pfui, Herr Walter.”
• The fish is a symbol for adultery (page 105)
• Klabund (the pseudonym for Alfred Henschke, the husband of one of Brecht's leading
actresses) published an adaptation of the original play Li Hsing-tao in 1925 (page 139).

44. The Story of a Non-Marrying Man & other Stories – D. Lessing ('72)
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• 13 Stories
• Dedication: For Jenny, with my love
• Nobel-prize (2007)
Notes Mrs. Fortescue

• Parents who he disliked, because they told lies … (59)
• (feeling an) Imaginary twin (59)
Spies I have known

• Woke up in the morning at the age of 13 (119)
Report on the threatened City

• Vagabonds, criminals end extremely poor will survive (163)
The Story of a Non-Marrying Man

• Learn to live with a lie (175)

45. German Romantics – Roger Cardinal (1975)
• Subtitle: in context
• pages: 160 (with illustrations)
Structure
1. The romantic movement in Germany
2. The Romantic Imagination
3. German Romantics
Notes
Biographical information on 13 German Romantics:
• F. Schlegel
• J.G. Fichte
• Novalis
• C.D. Friedrichs
• F.W.J. Von Schelling
• J.W. Ritter
• E.T.A. Hoffmann
• C.P. Fohr
• R. Schumann
• A. v. Arnim
• C.G. Carus
• J. von Eichendorff
• Bettina

46. Cockpit – by Jerzy Kosinski (1975)
• Dedication: For Katherina - the sound and touch of my life and to Marc Jaffe, who helped
to sustain my conviction in writing Cockpit, this edition is dedicated.
• The stunning psychological thriller ….
• Bantam Books
• 273 pages
• I stopped reading at page 80
• This book is wholly fiction....
• A strange mixture of James Bond, secret services, the confessions of an economic hitman,
whistle-blowers' reports and generally the manipulative world of today...
Notes
• Surrendered to the state (16)
• Discount prices for bureaucrats (17)
• Ruthenian (= Russian?) (42)
• A Diplomat as a rapist (!) (60)
• ...
• wet set – a group of men with odd sexual inclinations (237)
On Kosinski
• Direct experience (Time Magazine)
• The painted Bird as best work of literature to emerge from WW2.

47. Dylan Thomas - by Paul Ferris (1977)
• Subtitle: a Biography
• Publisher: The Dial Press (1977)
• ISBN: 0-8037-1947-7
• volume: 400 pages
Structure
1. Names of the past
2. His Father's Son
3. A Sort of Schoolboy
4. Reporter, Actor Poet
5. A Case of Cancer
6. London
7. Caitlin
8. War and "Fern Hill"
9. A Voice on the Radio
10.Laugharne and America
11.No Money, Few Poems
12.The Knot
13.Running Faster
14.Alcohol and Morphia
Notes:
• Dylan Thomas liked some bourgeois life-style. He had a son at boarding school in England,
belonged to a West End club, liked a good cigar and went to a private dentist (19).
• The first poem ("His Requiem83") to earn money for a 12 year old poet had been borrowed
and found in an issue published 4 years earlier (24).
• The German word "hinterland" (25).
• In Wales words, it seems, are more important than deeds (30).
• This boy should be in a madhouse (30).
• D.J. = David John Thomas84, Dylan Thomas's father (25).
• The name Dylan is an obscure figure from the Mabinogion (a Welsh medieval prose
romance) (36).
• Arriving in a Daimler (46)
• Income from stolen poetry (24 %) (page 53)
• Alternate-line-poems with Jones (59)
• In memoriam of the warmdandylanlyworld (61)
• writing 2 lines / hour (70)
• He looked like an unmade bed (78)
• C.B. = Chastity Belt (100)
• Alternate-line-poems with Pamela (105)
• Frequently, but not exclusively Dylan Thomas is using the Ampersand-sign "&" as an
alternative for the word "and" in his letters. (110).
83 Published in Cardiff's Western Mail, "His Requiem" (signed "D. M. Thomas") , 14 January 1927
84 His father, David John Thomas, was the senior English master at Swansea Grammar School, where Thomas was
educated.

The very use of abbreviations is known from American songwriters and the alternative
writing for "you" seems to be "U", but I did not find it in Thomas's writings.
These ideas for & and U made me choose the title "Spelling Thee, U & I" as a title for a blog
and a book, in which the ampersand "&" obviously must be considered to be an
androgynous symbol consisting of a female U-element and a male stroke-element (I even
managed to symbolize the idea to create an oil-painting to visualize the idea of an
androgynous ampersand).
• Morbid imagination (113)
• Caradoc Evans 85(117)
• His Oilness; Xmas = Oilmas.... etc. (122)
• Pamela: "says he loves me, but can't resist Comrade Bottle (125)
• Old twicer (?) ( 136)
• Dylan Thomas earns 58 Pounds from "25 Poems" (1936-1950) (146)
• Caitlin Macnamara dancing alone: "no loving come ever gave such prolonged ecstasy"
(148).
• "Something's boring me," he said, "I think it's me" (157)
• I buy a Mars bar and I think tomorrow I will eat that, so then I go to sleep because I have a
plan... (160)
• How Dylan Thomas wrote poetry (165)
• I eat the wind and I drink the rain ( 230)
• Out of the Druidic mists of Wales (232)
• Some women found the voice aphrodisiac (233)
• Variants of reciting poems in the USA (239)
• 150 US$ for readings in the USA (241)
• Upset by being asked to explain poems and poetry (242)
• (Love?) Letter to Caitlin "with a faraway voice") (246)
• Villanelle: “Do not go gentle into that good night... “(259)
• "Darkhouse" as opposite to Lighthouse (264)
• Reference to Roget's Theasaurus (264)
• Atlantic pays a dollar a line for long poems (267)
• Explanation for "Under Milk Wood" (288)
• Dylan Thomas used the (Roget's) Thesaurus's numbering system for references (295)
• Appendix: Poems "La Danseuse" and "Far as long as forever is" (315)
• Notes - Biography - Index range from page 317 -> 400
85 "the best hated man in Wales" ??

48. Beckett - by Deirdre Bair (1978)
• Subtitle: Samuel Beckett - A Biography (1978)
• Category: Biography
• Publisher: A Hervest / HBJ Book
• Dedication: For von - who shared it ; For Katney and Vonn Scott - who grew up with it
• ISBN: 0-15-679241-9
Contents
1. 1906-23
2. 1923-28
3. 1928-29
4. 1929-30
5. 1930-31
6. 1931-32
7. 1933
8. 1934
9. 1935
10.Murphy
11.1935-38
12.1938-39
13.1939-42
14.1942-45
15.1946-48
16.Waiting for Gogot
17.1949-50
18.1951-53
19.1953-54
20.1955-57
21.1958-60
22.1961-62
23.1963-65
24.1966-69
25.1969-73
26.1973-
Notes
• Birthday: either Good Friday April 13, 1906 or Mai 13, 1906. Since it was custom in Ireland
for live births to be recorded when the infant had survived the first month of life, ... Beckett
was officially entered on June 14, 1906 (3)
• Donkey Kisch, (-> came to a bad end when he wandered into a turnip patch and ate so many
that he quite literally blew up when his stomach burst). (11)
• Risky experiments (15)
• Forty Foot in Ulysses (16)
• Religion (18)
• Nanny commemorated in a poem Serena I: Bottom = BTM (19)

• Dylan Thomas → Francis MacNamara (46)
• Clubs had been reserved for middle classes, pubs for lower classes (47)
• Hardy Laurel in the novel "The Watt" (48)
• Concentrismistre (50)
• The Alba (Ethna MacCarthy) (53)
• German is an architectural language (54)
• Boss and Cissie and Peggy (58)
• Germany: land of sin, sex and debauchery (60)
• Joyce: Work in Progress -> Finnegans Wake (Watchman Havelook) (64/69)
• Suicide (66)
• Another insult to Ireland (70)
• Beckett imitating Joyce (71)
• Joyce finished Finnegans Wake in 1921 which adds up to 13 (good omen) (72)
• Joyce: fear for 13 - which is to become the day of his death (72)
• Dublin euphemism: "not-so-nice ladies" (74)
• Explaining the number of periods in: Dante...Bruno.Vico..Joyce (76)
• The danger is in the neatness of identification (77)
• Schopenhauer → Descartes (79)
• (Like Effi Briest) Peggy Sinclair dies of tuberculosis86 (86)
• Whoroscope published87 (106)
• Proust and Henry-music (109)
• Yeats-brothers, Slick (119)
• Censorship Act of 1927 (120)
• Inspiration for Ulysses = Eduard Dujardin88 (129)
• "I'll be there till I die, creeping along genteel roads on a stranger's bike" (138)
• Henry Miller(144)
• Dream: Belacqua and green-eyed Esmeraldina (147)
86 1933: Learns that Peggy Sinclair has died of tuberculosis on May 3.

87 Whoroscope is exactly one hundred lines of rambling monologue supposedly mouthed by the famous seventeenth
century French philosopher and scientist René Descartes while waiting to be served an egg which he might consider
sufficiently mature to be eaten.
88 one of the early users of the stream of consciousness literary technique, exemplified by his 1888 novel Les Lauriers
sont coupés.

49. Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1980)
• Subtitle: a practical guide
• Original: Hieroglyphen ohne Gheimnis (1980)
• Editor: Thames & Hudson
Notes
• Excllent photographs!

50. The Case for Gold by Ron Paul (1982)
• The Case for Gold89, (A Minority report of the US gold commision)
• Authors: Rep. Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman
• size: 245 pages
• Further reading: There's Still a Case for Gold
Notes90
I started an analysis of The Case for Gold91, (A Minority report of the US gold commision) by Rep.
Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman. I was surprised already the intro seems to be a shortest possible
summary:
More and more people are asking if a gold standard will end the financial crisis in which we
find ourselves. The question is not so much if it will help or if we will resort to gold, but
when. All great inflations end with the acceptance of real money—gold—and the rejection
of political money—paper.
The report does not prescribe a gold standard. Obviously Paul had been aware of the side-effects of
the old gold standards, but at least he evidently was convinced that a pure fiat-money system was
going to end up in a catastrophe.
This report makes the point that we need not return to a gold standard— which had many
shortcomings—but we can learn from the mistakes of the past, improve upon past systems,
and go forward to a modern gold standard.
It is clear that fiat-money is an unqualified monetary system. It is a pyramid system to fool the
ignorant uneducated ones. It will end up in chaos and distrust, causing revolutions and wars.
Governments can fool people for a while with paper money, but it's inevitable that trust in
the money—something absolutely required for it to serve as a medium of exchange and to
allow economic calculation— will be lost.
This has been defined in the foreword. In fact we do not have read this book to the end. The
foreword is sufficient to clarify Paul's insight.
By 1980 the system had produced a destroyed bond and mortgage market, persistent and
devastatingly high interest rates, and a faltering economy.. 92
Paul's strategy however seemed to have failed at the publication in 1982. It may have seemed too
easy for him to convince the readers and voters, that “anything except gold and silver coin is
forbidden” and “we must move forward to a real money system, gold”:
The Constitution forbids that anything except gold and silver coin should be made a tender
in payment of debt—yet Congress has made inconvertible paper a legal tender.93
and:
89 The Case for Gold - Ludwig von Mises Institute

90 From the analysis in: The monetary disaster (55) - Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Analyzing the “Wolves in sheep's
clothing”-bugs in Economy)
91 The Case for Gold - Ludwig von Mises Institute
92 page 8 (iii) of the foreword of The Case for Gold - Ludwig von Mises Institute
93 Page 15 (x), Introduction to The Case for Gold - Ludwig von Mises Institute

For too long the federal government has been playing with Monopoly money; we must
move forward to a real money system, gold94.
These lines however are to harsh and seemed to ignore the “many shortcomings of the gold
standard”.
I decided to ignore the details and jump to the chapter VII. The Next 10 Years95, in which the essence
has been condensed:
It was the return of the United States to the gold standard in 1879 that stimulated this real
economic growth, and it was the "monetary uncertainty in the early nineties'7 that slowed
and almost stopped that growth. Today it is once again "monetary uncertainty" that has
brought us to our present crisis.
The pre-1914 gold standard was invented by no one. More important, it was also managed
by no one. Modern economists too often look upon the classical gold standard and attribute
its success to the Bank of England's ability to follow the "rules of the game." But in fact the
system worked to the extent the authorities let it work. Of course, there had to exist an
environment where governments kept their promises to define and redeem their currencies
in a specific weight of gold, and would allow gold to be traded freely. But to call their
success in doing this managing gold is to play with language. Gold can manage itself if
governments do not hinder it.
The best of all worlds would be to have Bank and State separated the way Church and State
are. That is what we propose. For a gold standard still coupled with government monopoly
on note issue would only be as sound as the promise of the government to redeem their
notes.
A road to a totally unnecessary and totally avoidable tragedy

The contrast is stark between a regime of money regulated by the marketplace and our
system manipulated by politicians.
...
The next 10 years with gold hold great promise. But to realize that promise, Congress must
act quickly to clear the legal underbrush and obstacles out of the way of free men. Their
failure to do so will result in a totally unnecessary and totally avoidable tragedy.
The Tea Party's Name

In the meantime we know how a tragedy is going to end and by accident I found another possible
root for the tea party movement's name 96 which according to Paul's formula may seem to be related
to the Depression of the 1930s:
America could experience the veritable holocaust of runaway inflation, a cataclysm which
would make the Depression of the 1930s—let alone an ordinary recession—seem like a tea
party97.
94 Page 15 (x), Introduction to The Case for Gold - Ludwig von Mises Institute
95 at page 210 of The Case for Gold - Ludwig von Mises Institute
96 Tea Party movement: “The theme of the Boston Tea Party, an iconic event in American history, has long been used
by anti-tax protesters. It was part of Tax Day protests held throughout the 1990s and earlier.”
97 Page 213 (198), of The Case for Gold - Ludwig von Mises Institute

Monetary Inflation
Depreciating a currency through monetary inflation always brings escalating prices with
recessions in the latter stages of a currency destruction. In the early stages of a currency
destruction, recession may well slow the increase in prices, but that is only because not too
many people have caught on to the monetary policies of the government98.
Runaway Inflation
Precise price correlation (to money supply increases), stagflation, and high interest rates are
all understood and anticipated by the advocates of sound money who emphasize the
importance of the quality of money as well as its quantity.
In short, if we continue to stay on the course of fiat money, facing America at the end of the
road is the stark horror—the holocaust—of runaway inflation. Such an inflation would wipe
out savings, pensions, thrift instruments of all kinds; it would eliminate economic
calculation; and it would destroy the middle and poorer classes99.
Total destruction of the dollar

Either we must move to the gold, standard and monetary freedom, with long-run stability of
prices and business, rapid economic growth and prosperity, and the maintenance of a sound
currency for every American; or we will continue with irredeemable paper, with accelerating
core rates of inflation and unemployment, the punishment of thrift, and eventually the horror
of runaway inflation and the total destruction of the dollar. The failure of irredeemable
money nostrums is becoming increasingly evident to everyone—even to the economists and
politicians. Congress must have the courage to move forward to a modern gold standard100.
100Page 214 (199), of The Case for Gold - Ludwig von Mises Institute

51. Mailer - a biography by Hilary Mills (1982)
• Category: biography
• ISBN: 0-88015-002-5
• Publisher: Empire Books N.Y.
• Devoted: For Bob and for my family
• 478 pages, including 16 pages with b/w photographs
Structure
1. The paradox of Norman Mailer
2. Young Mailer at Harvard
3. The Naked and the Dead
4. From Success to the Shores of Failure
5. Breaking out
6. The Deer Park: a new Perception
7. The Voice
8. A white Negroe in Connecticut
9. The Messiah and the New Journalist
10.The Stabbing
11.Entering the Sixties
12.An American Dream
13.The Absurdist and the Movement
14.Armiesof the Night
15.The left Conservative
16.Beginning the Seventies: Of the Moon
17.Mailer and the Feminists
18.Ego at the Half Century
19.Norman and Marilyn
20.The Celebrity Writer
21.The Reincarnation of Norman Mailler
Notes
• Norman Mailer (* 31. Januar 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey; ? 10. November 2007 in
New York City):
novelist. co-founder of the Village Voice, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the
American Academy, winner of teh National Book Award, wife stabber, husband to six, father
of eight, definer of hip. anti-Vietnam-activist, candidate for mayor of New York, women's
liberation adversary, film maker, boxer, Hollywood screen actor, and fantasy lover of Marily
Monroe... (page 24)
• 16 year-old Mailer starts aeonautical engineering at Harvard (43)
• The shortest story covers 4 lines (42)
• Why Mailer wanted to become a writer (44)
• Mailer imitates Hemingway (49)
• Short story "The Greatest Thing in het World" (51)
• Mailer made it a rule to write 3000 words/day (58)
• Bea and Norman listened to Billy Holiday (67)
• Idea for flasbacks in "The Naked and the Dead" from Dos Pasos (85)

• Creating 25 pages / week (87)
• Metaphor reveals a man's character (88)
• Marily Monroe (89)
• Obscenities are still risky (90)
• "Fug" replaces "fuck" (93)
• The 721-page nover is completed in August 1947 (94)
• Bathing in Paris is so precarious that people either did not bathe at all or they went to the
public baths once a week (95)
• Sartre and Existentialism (97)
• Norman's political mentor Malaquais: "The crooks get reelected" (97)
• Marketing "The Naked and the Dead" (99)
References
• Norman_Mailer
• The_Naked_and_the_Dead

52. In God's Name by David Yallop (1984)
• Title: In God's Name
• Publisher: Corgi Books
• Subtitle: An Investigation Into The Murder of Pope John Paul I
• Banner: The Book that shook the World
• Size: 477 pages with 66 B&W photographs
Summary
Pope Francis is going to change the Catholic Church 101. The mission is dangerous and may irritate
existing mafia structures.
“The P2-lodge never had been dead”102 – it has only been sleeping for a while... and “all Marxists
have to do is sit back and wait for capitalism to self-destruct automatically”.
I remembered the plot and in these days of banking crisis Yallop's wise analysis suggests the same
procedure may be on its way again – probably on a global scale instead of the local “collapse of the
2nd largest bank failure in U.S. history”103.
In God's Name described the prototype of financial, political, criminal and clerical environment in
which constantly new types of crises are being generated...
Notes
• In 1968 millions ignored the Pope's “Humanae Vitae” (page 58)
• “The possible mistake of the superior does not authorize the disobedience of subjects” (59)
• Albino Luciani's letters (95)
• For 1800 years the Church had forbidden to charge interests on loans as “contrary to a
divine law” (145)
• Banco di Spiritu Sancto (147) (–> I remember to have seen another Banco Espírito Santo104,
at the Azores in 2012). It is a fascinating name!
• Ordinary people had to pay the bill for the Vatican's IRI-losses (147).
• → Kirchensteuer – Church Tax (149)
• Nogara's death † (1958) initiated the catastrophe (153)
• The catastrophic year has been 1968 with Humanae Vitae, and the release of the “Shark105”
and the “Gorilla106” (153)
• “Then it went the way of all taxes and was doubled” (153)
• Gelli's trick to find protectors (with a stolen lunch) at school (171)
• Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie as an US-American spy until 1952 (172)
• (An internationally active) Masonic Lodge P2107 in south America, France, Portugal,
Switzerland and USA (176)
• Liquidation of all Freemasons in Amsterdam (by Barbie) (177)
• Bomb outrages – some of which probably had been organized by P2 (181)
101Pope Francis Looks at Vatican Bank and Beyond for Reforms
102See the P2 "democratic rebirth plan" in Licio Gelli
1031974: Franklin National Bank goes under | Long Island Business News
104 founded in 1920 in Portugal
105Sicilian Michele "The Shark" Sindona was known as St. Peter's banker.
106Archbishop Paul "The Gorilla" Marcinkus was the bodyguard of Popes Paul VI .
107Masonic Lodge Propaganda Due (aka P2)

• Attentive CIA & Interpol (182)
• Michele Sindona as a piduista (P2 member) in the late 1960s. (182)
• The Godfather III: Life was imitating Art (187)
• Published secret account numbers (190)
• In 1970 the Vatican sells Gerono (a produce of the oral contraceptive pill) (191)
• Black Money Laundry (192)
• Michele Sindona – the Shark (After massive speculation against the Lira!) “Savior of the
Lira” and “Man of the Year” 1974 (193, 194, 197)
• Roberto Calvi - "God's Banker" and chairman of the Banco Ambrosiano (206)
• Banco Ambrosiano - The Priests' bank (206)
• Il Crack Sindona108 (197, 213)
• Supporting market values for Ambrosiano shares as an illegal activity (212)
• Laundering Mafia Money (213)
• Licio Gelli receives help from the Nixon/Mitchell law firms (1975) (215)
• Luciani said (at Sept. 11th, 1978): “He is our Father; even more he's our Mother” - but “he is
only quoting Isaiah” (234)
• The transfer of Luciani's documents on Birth Control to the Vatican's Secret Archives (244)
• Birth Control (246)
• Pecorelli as P2's whistle-blower (255)
• The lodge's registration numbering system (such as 04/3)
• Bishop Lefebre (257)
• 400 Million $ stolen by 1978 (“without theft”) (259)
• Luciani's daily routine (261-263)
• Cardinal Cody (270)
• “Ubi Lenin, ibi Jerusalem” (285)
• The “Italian Solution” (289)
• Majestic plural for popes (290)
• The Dutch Church, with a conservative wing (Gijssens and Simonis) (294)
• P2's standard poison (→ to provoke heart attacks): Digitalis (311)
• “We are back with the Borgias” (350)
• Opus Dei – God's Work (60,000-80,000 members) (375)
• Allessandrini † (380)
• Robbing oil tax-revenues (2.5 billion $) (383)
• Licio Gelli 's links to the CIA (384)
• Illegal money transfers from Italy (389)
• “Billy the Exterminator” (392)
• Diplomatic passports (396)
• The “List of 500” (399)
• With such business practices “all Marxists have to do is sit back and wait for capitalism to
self-destruct automatically” (405)
• Exocet missiles (407)
• The 962 members of the P2-lodge (409)
• The biggest fraud of Calvi and Marcinkus: their “Letters of Comfort” (1981) (413)
• Roberto Calvi † (422)
• Cody: “I forgive my enemies, but God will not” (427)
108Michele Sindona

53. Tao Te Tjing - by Lao Tse
This book is fundamental to classical Chinese philosophy.
A number of translation exist, mostly containing explanations of the texts (5000 words),
which is listing 81 short philosophical phrases.
In fact Lao Tse believed anything in this world is ruled by bipolarity between yin and yang (see
notes below).
The Tao of Power (1986) by R.L. Wing

• Het Tao van Macht (in Dutch language as a translation of The Tao of Power), 1986, in Dutch
language
• ISBN: 90-6134-304-6
• Size: A4, 185 pages
Tao-te_king (Dau-De-Dsching)
by Lao-Tse (Lau Dse), (published 1995),
ISBN 3-466-20394-5,
in German language
Notes
• Buch der Wandlungen: "Ein Yin, ein Yang, das nennt man Dau" (page 10)
• Yin und Yang vereinigen ihr "De" (= Wesen)
• Dau ist bisexuell (bei den Azteken Ometecutli, bei den Etrusken Voltumna, in ?gpten Atum)
• Ptah hat die Welt mit einem Wort geschaffen
• Die Trinit?t ist: Yin, Yang und Tschi (ein harmonischer Krafthauch
Notes
There is a strange coincidence: both the classic yin/yang-symbol and the oldest flag in history (the
Dutch banner) are using symbolic colours orange and blue. According to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica:
in Eastern thought, the two complementary forces, or principles,
that make up all aspects and phenomena of life.
Yin is conceived of as earth, female, dark, passive, and absorbing;
it is present in even numbers, in valleys and streams,
and is represented by the tiger, the colour orange, and a broken line.
Yang is conceived of as heaven, male, light, active, and penetrating;

it is present in odd numbers, in mountains,
and is represented by the dragon, the colour azure, and an unbroken line.
The two are both said to proceed from the Supreme Ultimate (T'ai Chi),
their interplay on one another (as one increases the other decreases)

being a description of the actual process of the universe and all that is in it.
In harmony, the two are depicted as the light and dark halves of a circle.
This may indicate a link between androgynous religion and Tao Te Tjing:

54. Paradigms Lost - by John L. Casti (1989)
• Subtitle: Images of Man in the Mirror of Science
• Publisher: Abacus (1989)
• ISBN: 0 7474 0967 6
• Size: Pocket, 568 pages
Structure
• Faith, Hope and Aspirity (Belief systems, science and the invention of reality)
• A warm little pond (Claim: life arose out of natural physical processes taking place here on
earth)
• It's in the genes (Claim: human behavior patterns are dictated primarily by the genes)
• Speaking for myself (Claim: Human language capacity stems from a unique, innate property
of the brain).
• The cognitive engine (Claim: digital computers can , in principle, literally think)
• Where are they? (Claim: existence of intelligent beings in our galaxy with whom we can
communicate
• Hoe real is the real world (Claim: there exists no objective reality independent of an
observer)
• Conclusion / The balance sheet (Are humans really something special?)
Notes
• Jocelyn Bell discovers pulsars (page 5)
• Pledges sworn for Creation Research Society:
"1. The Bible is the written Word of God, and because we believe it to be inspired
throughout, all of it assertions are historically and scientifically true in all the original
autographs. To the students of nature, this means that the account of origins in Genesis is a
factual presentation of simple historical truths.
2. All basic types of living things, including man, were made by direct creative acts of God
during Creation Week as described in Genesis. Whatever biological changes have occurred
since Creation have accomplished only changes within the original created kinds." (122).
• Electroshocks for wrong answers: in Munich 85 % of the test-persons were eager to shock
with a maximum of 450-volt limit! (144)
• John D. Rockefeller's philosophy: capitalism is a special variant of survival of the fittest"
(186)
• Noam Chomsky : the brain contains a specialized language organ (218)
• Jean Piaget (1896-1980): a child's mistakes in IQ-tests depend on the child's age (238)
• Jean Piaget: A child goes through 4 stages ... (239)
• Earliest function for speech is symbolisation (-> thoughts) (241)
• Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: (242)
Linguistic determinism: Language determines the way we think.
Linguistic relativism: Distinctions encoded into one language are not found in any other
language.
• Geoffrey Sampson -> Watchmaker Parable: building hierarchical sub-assemblies (247)
• Words (-for ideas ?- and short sentences -for communication ?- ) (247)
• Summary on languages (259)

• Turing Test & The Chinese Room (265)
• Von Neumann probably died from cancer after radiation exposure at the Bikini atoll in the
fifties (288)
• The three-polarizer paradox109 (460)
• The EPR-experiment (470)
• John Bell's 6-page paper (1964) - “using no more than elementary undergraduate
mathematics” (471)
• Bells Interconnectedness Theorem (474)
• Dirac's relations (478)
- dimensionless basic constants 10 ^ 39
- Electric force / gravitational force = 2.3 x 10 ^ 39
- Age of the universe / time for light to cross an atom = 6 x 10 ^ 39
• Teilhard de Chardin's Omega (487)
• Are humans special ? (493/498)
Notes to the topic Linguistic theories

Noam Chomsky designed the fundamentals for most of the modern linguistic theories. According to
Chomsky the brain uses a specialized language organ, which at early ages may be adapted by
environmental conditions.
While adapting IQ-tests Jean Piaget noticed dependencies between a child's type of errors and it's
age. The earliest function for speech is symbolisation, to be used for thoughts instead of
communication.
Language determines the way we think. Distinctions encoded into one language are not found in
any other language. This idea is equivalent to Ludwig Wittgenstein's (1889 -1951) statement:
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent (to be found in in Tractatus logico-
philosophicus, Satz 7, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12429-3, Seite 111).
In the Watchmaker Parable Geoffrey Sampson suggests hierarchical sub-assemblies for languages.
Basically any language may be considered to contain fundamental words (basic ideas and
fundamental thoughts). The most important words in the Proto-Indo-European (PIE-) Language (as
reconstructed by August Schleicher ) or probably in any language are "You", "I", and "We":
Index/Rank English (old) Dutch German (old) Category
1 (male symbol) I (I) Ik Ich (Ih) Pronoun
2 (female symbol) You (Thou) Jij Du (Thu) Pronoun
3 (androgynous) We Wij Wir Pronoun
4 (male symbol) This Dit Diese Indicator
109Revisiting the Three-polarizer Paradox

5 (female symbol) That Dat Jene Indicator
Probably the top level fundamentals in languages may also contain some basic ideas, coded in
names.
Considering the importance of religious fundamentals we may also add a Creator-God to the
fundamentals. The earliest Creatorgod in Germanic areas is Tuisco, which may be derived by
concatenating "Thou" and "I" or in old-German "Thu" and "Ih". In French we may observe the
pronoun "je" in between the letters "Du" to generate the word God ("Djeu"). In Spanish and Italian
language a similar concatenation "Dios" may be derived from the pronoun "io" or "yo".
Basically the letter U and the pronoun Thu must be considered a female symbol whereas the letter I
and the pronoun I may be considered a male symbol. For reasons of religious symbolism the
pronoun "UI" = "we" = "Wir" must be considered as an androgynous (male/female) symbolic
combination. In analogy the indicator "this" might be a male symbol and "that" a female symbol.
Notes to the topic Are humans special ?

In Paradigms Lost the author John L. Casti lists the following 7 attributes for humans:
• Origin of life (probably)
• Sociobiology (hard to say)
• Language acquisition (very likely)
• Artificial intelligence (maybe not)
• Extraterrestrial intelligence (very probably)
• Quantum reality (arguably yes)
Additionally I found the following arguments for the idea: Are humans special ?
• Eye-contact at copulation (shared with some ape-categories: the bonobos and a few gorillas)
• Man is able to think "in spoken words", enabling him to think no-existing things, including
lies and religion.
Enabling him to think no-existing things is an idea from Sartre. See: Wer bin ich - und wenn
ja wie viele?
• Man is able to develop religion.
• Man is the only animal, which is able to control an open fire.
• As a first animal man is able to destroy it's own species completely (by nuclear explosions)
• Man is the only animal, which is able to leave the planet's gravitational field.

55. Céline - A biography by Frédéric Vitoux (1992)
• Translated by Jesse Browner
• Editor: Paragon House (1992)
• Size: 602 pages, 18 B/W-photographs, $34.95
Contents
1. Birth ... and Before
2. Passage Choiseul, Passage Toward Adolescense
3. Th Schools of Life
4. The good old Days and the War
5. Impressions of Africa
6. Eureka; medicine!
7. Final Preparation before "The Journey"
8. Finally, on October 15, 1932: C?line...
9. Story of a Book
10.Chronicle of a "death" Foretold
11.Cries and Solitude
12.Phony Peace, Phony War
13.The Occupation
14.One Summer, '44
15.Castle and Prison
16.Exile
17.Meudon, or Journey's End
Notes
• Céline: a racist, anti-Semite, and Nazi sympathizer (Jacket).
• Pseudonym Céline at the cover of
F: "Voyage au bout de la nuit" (1932)
E: "Journey to the End of the Night"
NL: "Reis naar het einde van de nacht" (uitgave van Oorschot, 1968) (7)
• "..the feeling that language consists of lies, illusion, threats, desperate attempts at survival
(the child is well aware that you have to deceive the client to earn your living), and that to
be the dupe of such language, on the other hand, is to cherish futile dreams, to ruin oneself,
to add to the world's misery and one's own". (27)
• Trial (499)
• Epitaph at Neudon cemetery (558)
Louis-Ferdinand C?line
Doctor L.-F. Destouches
1894-1961

56. The Wisdom of the Great Chiefs (1805-1853-1879, 1994)
Subtitled: The Classic Speeches of Chief Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle
Composition: Selected by kent Nerburn
Published: The Classic Wisdom Collection - New World Library (1994)
ISBN: 1-880032-40-6
Contents
1. Chief Red Jacket (1805)
2. Chief Joseph (1879)
3. Chief Seattle of the Suquamish people (December, the Wulge, Puget Sound, Washington,
1853)
Notes
I found some of the prophetic words for the decay of the US-society 110 and wanted to check their
origin.
In fact the description of the decay of the US-intruders is not really prophetic, because no date has
been specified and anybody could have predicted a time of decay as a common destiny for all
civilizations. However this description of a destiny of decay seemed worth the trouble to skip the
words from the text and it took me some time to search and find the most reliable manuscript in my
library.
Chief Seattle's words have been preserved in many documents. Some of these used a later text,
which was intended as a literary rework for a play. The published version in this book is a
transcription of Dr. Henry Smith, as he sat on the shores of the Wulge, listening to Seattle's speech.
“It is as close to the original version as we are likely to get.” (page 67)
“Your time of decay may be distant, but surely will come. For even the white man, whose
God talked with him as friend with a friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We
may be brothers after all. We shall see.” (dated 1853, page 74).
110Chief Seattle's Speech: “uw neergang ligt misschien in de verre toekomst, maar zal zeker komen.” (page 580 in
Reizen zonder John – Geert Mak (2012))

57. House of Splendid Isolation – Edna O'Brien (1994)
• Publisher: Phoenix Books
• Contents: 216 Pages
Notes

58. Fingerprints of the Gods - by Graham Hancock (1995)
• Subtitle: A Quest for the Beginning and the End
• Photographs: by Santha Faiia
• Size: Paperback version, 600 pages
• first published: 1995
• ISBN: 0 7493 1454 0
Contents and structure

1. The Mystery of the Maps
2. Foam of the Sea: Peru and Bolivia
3. Plumed Serpent: Central America
4. The Mystery of the Myths: A species with amnesia
5. The Mystery of the Myths: The precessional Code
6. The Giza Invitation: Egypt 1
7. Lord of Eternity: Egypt 2
8. Conclusion: Where is the Body?
Comments
In a fascinating style the author wades through scientifically unsolved archeological problems such
as:
• the Piri Reis world map
• the suddenly frozen mammoths
• coding the precessional numbers
• and others...

59. The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson (1995)
Subtitle: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms
Volume: 224 pages
Editor: Thames & Hudson
Illustrations: over 350, 50 in color
Notes

60. Programming Pearls, Second Edition by Jon Bentley (2000)
• Category: collection of essays about a glamorous aspect of software
• Editor: Addison-Wesley, Inc., 2000.
• ISBN 0-201-65788-0.
Notes
Just the other day Peter gave me a pile of books he definitely wouldn't be needing any more. One of
those I recognized as Programming Pearls. In the web there is a second edition of this masterpiece,
which may be downloaded as a pdf111. I remember some of the topics had been used for teaching
purposes.
Yes, this had been an inspiring work for the young programmers who were looking for some great
ideas to improve their jobs. Peter doesn't develop software any more and I am working in another
field as well.
Still the magic if improvements and great designs is as attractive as it has been decades ago. It is
like entering a museum of mysterious ancient artwork, which has been selected and saved from
destruction. The filtering process takes care of the elimination of scrap designs, nonsense and ugly
work. Only the very best survive those burning, evolutionary decades.
Oh yes, I remember my own programming pearls, which had been growing in a niche of
geometrical data processing. It certainly did not belong to the big market of operating system
routines such as sorting on disk, spelling checkers, editors such as vi, script-tools like awk, ed, etc.
Sorting
Most of our software also required lots of sorting processing, but generally it needed to be adapted
to the PCB112-design's requirements. The programming pearls were locally scattered in the tools for
busy hands and their light never left the workbench of the designers.
Those days (around 1980-1990) layouts PCB-designs had been made by hand or in rather crude 16-
bit processors. Personal computer with CP/M, DOS, Windows had to be adapted to process data for
photo-plotters, drilling/milling machines, bare board testers, pick and place equipment and In
Circuit Testers.
Initially the designs had to be processed without any logical component information. IT-processing
was expensive and the designers had to draw their 2-layer 4:1 scaled layouts with red & green
pencils for the lower respectively upper PCB-layer. The large 4:1 paperwork had to be digitized
manually and only pad-stacks were placed to control the photo-plotting and drilling.
Photo-plotting
Before the introduction of laser-plotters the photo-plotters used circular and square apertures sized
from 0.1mm to 4.0 mm, which except for some special symbols (such as targets) had to be used to
fill all PCB-patterns. Complicated, large black areas and great numbers of special non-circular and
non-square pads needed to be filled with the available apertures.
111Programming Pearls, Second Edition (pdf), by Jon Bentley

112PCB = Printed Circuit Board

Any double illumination of film areas caused spillover and the photo-plotter was not allowed to
pass any area more than once.
In complicated closed polygons the filling program had to start with the smallest aperture to draw
the outline and then fill-up the remaining area with growing diameters, taking care not to run into
forbidden areas. Often the closed polygons had been designed with double corners and tiny
crossings of lines, which had to be detected and eliminated for correct processing.
The introduction of SMD-technology caused some problems in filling SMD-pads,which had been
designed as rectangular areas and I remember the plotting time surged for these complex structures.
The introduction of a laser-plotter in parallel to existing photo-plotters wasn't really helpful, because
photo-plotting had to be equipped with standard Gerber-formats and wheel definitions to be flexible
enough in the manufacturing departments. Sorting for short movements and delays in aperture
changes had to be activated to optimize the photo-plotters' capacity.
We implemented a filling function for large rectangular areas at the laser-plotter, which didn't care
for filling these areas with large quadratic apertures. The function had been designed with recursive
calls for the remaining areas.
Text fonts
In the early years text had been a singular issue. Usually a CAD-system used one font in discrete
(for the Applicon-system: 8) sizes. The coordinates' resolution had been restricted at the mils-
system or its equivalent. In our company113 text fonts had to fulfill a strict standard, depending on
the reproduction's resolution of drawings from microfilm or aperture cards. Drawings, lists and
schematics required a readable font at which all texts remained readable after recovering the
drawing from microfilm.
Microfilm had always be the reliable archive of the last resort. We also had an archive of magnetic
tapes, CDs and so on, but these media weren't reliable enough. Most problematic was the refreshing
procedure for magnetic tapes.
The text font size and readability played an important role and in writing software for the photo-
plotters I had to manage the job to exactly reproduce the standardized title block for films, drawings
and lists.
Of course the coordinates of the fonts were not available, but I was able to produce Gerber-code
plotter files from another CAD-system and I remember to have entered all ASCII-symbols in a
drawing and generate the Gerber-code. With the help of a program I did read analyze the
coordinates, which described polygons with some light-on and light-off commands. I knew the
characters had been generated in virtual boxes and sorted out the coordinates for each ASCII-
symbol. These were the plotter-positions I needed as the parameters for the graphical output. I
merely had to transform their position and orientation at the correct location on the film.
Parts List
Of course it was soon found out that the design data needed to be concentrated at the singular
source, which included all schematic and layout data. From here these data needed to be transferred
to the mainframe systems for parts list and manufacturing processing.
113AEG-Telefunken

In those early days of separated sources a great number of errors occurred and needed to be
corrected. Part lists might contain objects labeled “R12”, which were missing in the PCB-design.
That might be an error, but sometimes “R12” had been added later and needed to be placed in
unlabeled holes.
On the other hand an “R12”-resistor might be placed in the PCB-design, but did not show up in the
part list. This was a rather common situation in designs which had to be combined with a great
number of design variants.
Now the part list system required a special input file, in which the parts had to be accumulated
according to the part number and assigned to special position numbers for the part lists.
R1, R14, R12, R144 and R4004 all might be found with the same part number and needed to be
joined at the first position of the part list. In order to process these data we had to sort the list
according to the following structure:
<10-pos. part number>R00001
In the part list the position had to be filled with a data line for:
Post. 0010, <10-pos. part number>, R1, 12, 14, 144, 4004
Preferably the lists always would be sorted with a system sort, but in MS-DOS the sort-program
merely allowed us to sort 64kByte of data. In voluminous PCB-designs the sort data file would
exceed this limit and data had to be split up in separated files to subsequently be sorted.
This procedure required a lot of sorting, assigning and checking. Some (now obsolete) CAD-
systems did not even check double names, others allowed double names for some parts such as
X15, which referred to 4 placements cells for one singular component with the designator X15.
Libraries
Standards for packages were rare and unreliable. I remember the SOT23, which had a strange pin 1-
definition. Some specifications such as 10646-sot23.gif defined pin 1 at the top right position in top
view. Others like SMDLed_SOT23_L-965-02.JPG preferred pin 1 at the top right position in top
view or did not even define the top or bottom view information at all.
The DIL14/16/20-packages also lacked a standardization. Some packages were a few mils bigger
and/or higher than others, which caused collisions for some of the ICs if for identical part numbers
another manufacturer was to be chosen.
All these details resulted in a rather complicated CAD-/CAM-interface. This would have been
complicated in a company with a singular development site and one singular manufacturer site. In
reality however the company had 5 or 6 large development sites and 3 or 4 manufacturer sites,
which all defined their own part numbers, libraries and design/manufacturing data bases.
<< this section is to be extended >>

61. Chronicles - by Bob Dylan (2004)
• Category: Biography
• Subtitle: Volume One
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2004)
• Size: 294 pages
Contents
1. Markin' Up the Score
2. The Lost Land
3. New Morning (1971 ?)
4. Oh Mercy (1987)
5. River of Ice (Duluth -New York 1961)
Notes
• Sophocles: why there are only 2 sexes (37)
• Poe's poem "The Bells" set to music (37)
• Joseph Smith: Adam was the first man-god (37)
• Count Leo Tolstoy (38)
• Clausewitz: philosopher of war (41)
• Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie (49)
• Joe Hill: scatter my ashes any place but Utah (53)
• Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil: "feeling old at the beginning of life" (73)
• Robert Allen (first names) -> Allyn -> Bob Dylan (78)
• Clancy Brothers (83)
• Battle between two kinds (northern and southern) of time (86)
• Odessa (92)
• Shoemakers and leatherworkers (93)
• The King's English (95)
• Woody in Greystone Hospital (98)
• Father of Night (113)
• You can sell privacy, but you can't buy it back (118)
• Nightmare in Woodstock (121)
• The Leopard Girl (130)
• Weathermen (134)
• Lonny Johnsons (playing an odd-number system) (157)
• Leaving songs on the floor like shot rabbits ... (162)
• Birthplace of America: Alexandria in Minnesota (175)
• Time is on my side (214)
• Shared phone lines in the USA (226)
• First song written: "Song to Woody" (229)
• Duluth/ Hibbing (230)
• Upper Midwest was volatile (231)
• Minneapolis (234)
• John Jacob Niles (239)

• Highhway 61 starts from Duluth (240)
• Woody Guthrie (244)
• Bound for Glory (245)
• Imagining Guthrie saying: I'm leaving this job in your hands (246)
• Woody painted with words (247)
• Joan Baez (254)
• The only 12-string guitar in the Midwest (256)
• Lord Buckley (260)
• Suze Rotolo (265)
• Ma Rotolo: "Do me a favor, don't think when I'm around" (267)
• Let me die in my footsteps (270)
• "I had a Geiger-counter" (272)
• Brecht: Pirate Jenny (273)
• Ruleville: Robert Johnson (-> in Love in Vain (also performed by the Rolling Stones) (281)
• Yuletide (284)
• Al Grossman (289)

62. The Unfolding of Language – Guy Deutscher (2005)
• Subtitle: The Evolution of Mankind's Greatest Invention
• Publisher: arrow books
• For Janie – maṣṣar šulmim u balāṭim ina rēšiki ay ipparku114
Notes
• Dual in Semitic language (39)
• The gender of a girl (42)
• Spoon – a piece of wood → is named “spaan” in Dutch (45)
• Aelfric – Wycliff (Old-English Quotations) (48)
• Explanation of the transformations Ic → I (51)
• Ius → jurisdiction (79)
• Persian Apple → persian → persica → “peach” (89) → “paars” (Dutch: “violet”)
• The vowel system of PIE remained a mystery (103)
• August Schleicher: the only observation in linguistics is decay (112)
• Skeletons of metaphors (124)
• Golo Mann's Goodbye (→ “Vielen Dank” → “Bitte sehr”) (167)
• French aujourd'hui explained as expansion “on the day of today” (167)
• Grottenschlecht (probably „grotten-“ süddeutsch „krotten-“ (from „Krotte“ „Kröte“)) (176)
• The search of regular patterns (208)115
• “Ewe” prepositions (???) (209)
• What belongs together appears together (216)
• Ceasar's principle: veni, vidi, vici (in the correct order) (216)
• Politeness as an unnatural order: 'me' → 'you' instead of 'we' → 'you' (219)
• 'me first' instead of 'we first' (219)
• Action before the actor: Man spear throw in Japanese, Turkish, Korean, Basque & Hindi
(220)
• “Me Tarzan, You Jane” (226)
• Hic-Iste-Ille (229)
• Hic-Sis (230)
• No duality as a key-word (230)
• Explanation of the colors (red = dust → “Adam”) (237) 116
• “s” as a “possessive”-marker (242)
• Articles as derivatives from the, that and “jullie” (in Dutch: from “you”) (243)
• Abstract concepts must be derived from physical objects (267)117
• PIE tended to shortening the words (268)
• Dual (268)
• August Schleicher's Dawn of History (270)
• The impact of literature and the impact of poetry in preliterate phases (273)
• Dying rate of languages = 1 language / 2 weeks (273)
• 6000 languages exist (274)
114 The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's...
115 my search of ieu as a pattern
116 There is no explanation for the old-Persian ego-pronoun “Adam (“I”)
117 Therefore the French divine Name Diéu is thought to have been derived from the ego-pronoun “iéu”

63. Rich Dad, Poor Dad – by Robert T. Kiyosaki (2006)
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Audio of the Complete book)
Notes
• Money is like a carrot for a donkey, but the carrot is more valuable.
• Fear and Desire are used to setup the trap for the Rat Race
• Ignorance of money results in fear and greed

64. The First Word – Christine Kenneally (2007)
• Subtitle: The Search for the Origins of Language
• Publisher: Penguin Books
Notes
• Psammetichus' and Frederick II's tests (19)
• Darwin (20)
• Jared Diamond (21)
• Chomsky: UG = Universal Grammar (24)
• Ape language (page 40 → 51)
• A lack of oxygen's impact on speaking and thinking (78)
• English distinguishes blue from green – others don't (107)
Among the man, many colors that it labels the English language distinguishes blue
from green, while many other languages make no such distinction. The way you see
color depends on the side of the brain you are using. Language is dominant on the left
side, where also the right visual field is controlled.
• Labeling things with words helps to categorize objects (109)

• The “One-two-many” - numbering system118 (110)
• Swearing is controlled from another part of the brain (116)
• Versions of homesign (the gestural communication system developed by a deaf child) (134)
• Victim (ape) Screams for high- resp. low risks (IU?) (140)
• Body size and the deepness of voice correlate (148)
• Music as a drag in Motherese ro regulate infants' emotional states (174)
• Not fully understood genetics (195)
• Language evolved the brain (252)
• Precise words (277)
• Damages (by lack of oxygen for climbers ~ comparable to cosmic rays) (277)
• Nicaraguan sign language developed by the deaf children (292)
118 Related to One Too Many Mornings (Dylan – 1964) ?

The “one, two, many” theory is that cultures developed words for “one” and “two” before anything else, and any
numbers after are referred to as “many”

65. How to create Beauty – by Lyckle de Vries (2011)
• Subtitle: De Lairesse on the theory and practice of making art
• Dedication: I dedicate this book to my wife Johanneke as I should have done with all my
publications. She knows why.
• Editor: Primavera Press, Leiden 2011
Notes
• Dutch language changed drastically between 1700-2000 (34)
• Did De Lairesse offer public lectures in French or Dutch? (35)
• Everybody's mind produces an individual beauty ideal (36)
• Ongemeen (NL) = uncommon (36)
• Ingheesting en Hemelval (betekenis: inspiratie) (40)
• “painterly” (schilderachtig) I.p.v. Pittoresque (41, 54)
• Hermaphroditus (48)
• Pittoresco (56)
Book I – On Beauty (12 chapters) (67-80)

• Ideal male bodies are sized 7,5 x the head heigth; female bodies are sized 8 x the head
heigth (78)
• De Lairesse suggests / uses 3 shades for skin colors (77)
Book II – On Composition
• Large paintings with tiny details (105)
Book III (115)

• Allegories = hieroglyphic scenes (117)
• Wiskunde = rational thinking (philosophy) (123)
Book IV – On Colors (127)

• Purper, paars & violet are 3 degrees of red, with a growing blue component (127)
• Dutch-English dictionaries in English only specify purple & violet (127)
• What abour “lila”?
• Colors: Yellow – red – blue (are strong colors); green – purple – paars (129)
• Character of clothing; conventions (131)
Book V – On light & Lighting (139)

• Light sources, shadows, natural light sources (151)
• The sun is blue (151)
• The diameter of the moon should always be the same (155)
• Trompe l'oeil (157)
• Ruysdael's trees made of fried parsley (179)

Book VI (171)
Book VI-VIII (165)

66. Currency Wars - by James Rickards (2011)
• Subtitled: The making of the next global crisis
• Size: 288 pages
Notes
• GDP-Formula (38)
• Nobel-prize for economy 1969 (168)
• Fed insolvent – the Fed's problems (174, 176)
• The Fed only controls base money (180)
• Spending problems (180)
• Keynesian Theory (183)
• VaR = Value At Risk (192)
• 60 Trillion US$ destroyed in the following of the Panic in 2008 (193)
• Derivatives would put the risk in the hands of those who were the best able to handle it - the
taxpayers (169)
• Black swans (theory developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ) (204)
• The next collapse will not be stopped by the government. The next one will stop the
government (because it will be larger than governments) (212)
• Hemingway described how one is going bankrupt (212)
• Subcritical system / critical threshold (214)
• Money is a store of value / stored energy (218)
• The complexity of society increases, the inputs needed to maintain society increase
exponentially (The collapse of complex societies - Tainter , Chaisson, page 220)
• The Gini-coefficient119 in the US is corresponding to civilizations nearing a collapse
(because the overburdened citizens cannot respond adequately to catastrophes) (222).
• In Tainter's view “Collapse, if and when it comes again, this time will be global. No longer
can any individual nation collapse. World civilization will disintegrate as a whole.” (223)
• Collapse is a sudden, involuntary and chaotic form of simplification (223)
119A Gini coefficient is commonly used as a measure of inequality of income or wealth.

67. Hillbilly Elegy – by J.D. Vance (2016)
• Subtitle: A memoir of a family and culture in crisis
• International Bestseller - The political Book of the Year (Sunday Times)
• Volume 264 pages
Notes
I did read this book in its original language to update my urban dictionary:
• Holler (12,161, 170)
• Mountain Dew mouth (21)
• Britches → “too big for your britches” (30)
• Yore (48)
• Moocher (57)
• Young'uns (58)
• Foray (59, 95)
• Mildew (103)
• Kids raised by wolves (127)
• Reams (149)
• 1 Corinth 13:12 (169)
• Mettle (173)
• The greatest country on earth (173)
• Gasker (174)
• Mono (183)
• Free ride for the poorest kids (199)
• Yale had “educated” Hillary Clinton (!) (202)
• Pleather (224)
• Constantly ready to fight (228)
• Mormon Utah beats Rust Belt Ohio (242)
• Faggots (245)
• Survival during childhood (246)
• Toys for Tots (250)
• Christmas gifts as domestic landmines (250)
• Splunge (252)
• Two classes in the USA: upper class versus working class (252)
My overview
• A this memoir of a family and culture in crisis the author identifies two classes in the USA:
upper class versus working class (page 252).
• The life of working class people (“hillbillies”) is filled with fighting, screaming a
vocabulary with 50% variants of the word “fucking”, bad taste, drugs, alcohol, divorces and
ignorance.
• Only the (1%) elite class will be allowed to study Yale Law and rule the other classes.
• Yale also “educated” Hillary Clinton (!) (mentioned at page 202).
• The working class people is “Constantly ready to fight” (228).

• Still the US is “The greatest country on earth” (173).

Contents
English..................................................................................................................................................2
1.Zohar, Bereshith to Lekh Lekha (1300)........................................................................................2
2.A History of the Conquest of Peru – William H. Prescott (1847) ...............................................5
3.Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases - by P.M. Roget (1852)...................................6
4.Phallic Worship - by Hodder M. Westropp (1870).......................................................................8
5.The Secret Doctrine - by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1888).......................................................9
6.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – by James Joyce (1916).............................................12
7.Ulysses - by James Joyce (1922)................................................................................................13
8.Jacob's Room - by Virginia Woolf (1922)..................................................................................16
9.Zeus by Arthur Bernard Cook (1925).........................................................................................18
10.The Bridge of Saint Louis the King (T. Wilder, 1927).............................................................19
11.Cities of the Plain - by Marcel Proust (1928) ..........................................................................22
12.The Classic Works - by Virginia Woolf (1929).........................................................................25
13.Axel's Castle – Edmund Wilson (1931)....................................................................................26
14.Brave New World - by Aldous Huxley (1932).........................................................................29
15.Essays in Literary Critisism – Herbert Read (1938).................................................................32
16.Thomas More - by Daniel Sargent (1938)................................................................................34
17.Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie (1943).............................................................................35
18.The Natural History of Nonsense by Bergen Evans (1946).....................................................36
19.All the Kings's Men – Robert Penn Warren (1946)..................................................................37
20.Over to You - ten stories by Roald Dahl (1946).......................................................................38
21.The Heart of the Matter - by Graham Greene (1948)...............................................................39
22.American literature in the 20th century - Heinrich Straumann (1951) ....................................40
23.The Catcher in the Rye - by J.D. Salinger (1951).....................................................................41
24.East of Eden - by John Steinbeck (1952)..................................................................................42
25.Story of O – by Pauline Reage (1954)......................................................................................45
26.The Federal Reserve System - by the Board of Governors of the Fed (1954).........................46
27.Patterns in comparative religion - Mircea Eliade (1958)..........................................................57
28.(Outline of) Human Relationships - by Dr. Eustace Chesser (1959)........................................59
29.The Jewel in the Lotus - by Allen Edwardes (1959).................................................................65
30.To kill a Mockingbird – by Harper Lee (1960)........................................................................67
31.The Country Girls Trilogy – by Edna O'Brien (1960)..............................................................68
32.Truth, Myth, and Symbol–Thomas J.J. Altizer and others (1962)............................................72
33.Silent Spring - by Rachel Carson (1962)..................................................................................75
34. America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard (1963).......................................................76
35.The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)................................................................................78
36.In Cold Blood - by Truman Capote (1965)...............................................................................80
37.Rembrandt - by Joseph-Emile Muller (1968)...........................................................................81
38.Picasso - the blue and rose periods - by Denys Chevalier (1969)............................................82
39.The Functions of Money in Equilibrium and Disequilibrium (1969).......................................83
40.The Camera and I - by Joris Ivens (1969)................................................................................84
41.Solomon - Critique of Modern Art by Frederick Solomon (1970)...........................................85
42.Hans Fallada – by H.J. Schueler (1970)...................................................................................86
43.Brecht heute / Brecht today – The Brecht Yearbook #1 (1971)................................................87
44.The Story of a Non-Marrying Man & other Stories – D. Lessing ('72)....................................88
45.German Romantics – Roger Cardinal (1975)...........................................................................89
46.Cockpit – by Jerzy Kosinski (1975).........................................................................................90
47.Dylan Thomas - by Paul Ferris (1977).....................................................................................91
48.Beckett - by Deirdre Bair (1978).............................................................................................93

49.Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1980)...............................................................................95
50.The Case for Gold by Ron Paul (1982)....................................................................................96
51.Mailer - a biography by Hilary Mills (1982)............................................................................99
52.In God's Name by David Yallop (1984)..................................................................................101
53.Tao Te Tjing - by Lao Tse.......................................................................................................103
54.Paradigms Lost - by John L. Casti (1989)..............................................................................105
55.Céline - A biography by Frédéric Vitoux (1992)....................................................................108
56.The Wisdom of the Great Chiefs (1805-1853-1879, 1994)....................................................109
57.House of Splendid Isolation – Edna O'Brien (1994)..............................................................110
58.Fingerprints of the Gods - by Graham Hancock (1995).........................................................111
59.The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson (1995)................................................................112
60.Programming Pearls, Second Edition by Jon Bentley (2000).................................................113
61.Chronicles - by Bob Dylan (2004)..........................................................................................116
62. The Unfolding of Language – Guy Deutscher (2005)...........................................................118
63.Rich Dad, Poor Dad – by Robert T. Kiyosaki (2006).............................................................119
64.The First Word – Christine Kenneally (2007)........................................................................120
65.How to create Beauty – by Lyckle de Vries (2011)................................................................121
66.Currency Wars - by James Rickards (2011)............................................................................123
67.Hillbilly Elegy – by J.D. Vance (2016)...................................................................................124
Contents of the Dutch entries120

Nederlands............................................................................................................................................2
1.Lof der Zotheid - door Desiderius Erasmus (1511)......................................................................2
2.Ethica - van Spinoza (1632 - 1677)..............................................................................................4
3.Rood en Zwart – door Stendhal (1830)........................................................................................7
4.Eerste liefde / als lentestromen – door Iwan. S. Toergenjew (1860)............................................8
5.Max Havelaar - door Multatuli (1860).........................................................................................9
6.Almanak met Adresboek van het arrondissement Roermond 1874 ...........................................15
7.Kunst voor Allen - door Cornelis Veth (1916) ...........................................................................27
8.Kleine Inez – Reinier van Genderen Stort (1925)......................................................................28
9.Hedendaags Fetisjisme – Carry van Bruggen (1925).................................................................29
10.Het nieuwe radioboek – samengesteld door Martin Stute (1928)............................................30
11.Reis naar het einde van de nacht – L.F. Céline (1932).............................................................33
12.De Herberg met het Hoefijzer - door A. den Doolaard (1933).................................................34
13.Bint van F. Bordewijk (1934)...................................................................................................35
14.Trilogie Vrouwenschool van André Gide (1929-1936)............................................................36
15.Dierenleven in ARTIS door A.F.J. Portielje (1938)..................................................................38
16.Georg Friedrich Händel's Opstanding door Stefan Zweig (1939)............................................39
17.Geschiedenis der Nederlandse Letterkunde - van Schothorst (1940).......................................40
18.Uittreksel van de Katholieke moraaltheologie (1940)..............................................................41
19.Snippers op der rivier door A. Marja (1941)............................................................................48
20.Terra Promissa – Henri de Greeve Pr. (1941)...........................................................................49
21.Het Achterhuis - van Anne Frank (1942-1944)........................................................................50
22.In zoeklicht en afweervuur – door Guy Gibson (1943)............................................................51
23.De vliegen (e.a.) – Jean-Paul Sartre (1943)..............................................................................52
24.Le petit Prince - door Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)..........................................................53
25.Vier Moralisten - door Dr. C.J. Wijnaendts Francken (1944)...................................................54
26.“Een tweede jaar in Thijsse's hof” van Dr. Jac. P. Thijsse (1946)............................................56
27.Achtentwintig eeuwen bloembestuiving – Dr. A. Schierbeek (1947).......................................58
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28.De Avonden - door Simon van het Reve (1947).......................................................................59
29.Klerk en beul: Himmler van nabij - van Felix Kersten (1948).................................................60
30.Tijd van Delirium - door Hermann Rauschning (1949)............................................................62
31.De koperen tuin - door Simon Vestdijk (1950).........................................................................66
32.1984 – George Orwell (1950)...................................................................................................67
33.In de hof der historie“ door Jan Romein – 1951.......................................................................68
34.Het trieste der tropen van Claude Lévi-Straus (1955)..............................................................70
35.Venezuela - door Mr. W.J. van Balen (1955)............................................................................72
36.Continent in groei – De Gids (1956).......................................................................................81
37.Onderweg Genoteerd door Hans A. de Boer (1956).................................................................82
38.Het laatste jaar van Thomas Mann - door Erika Mann (1956).................................................83
39.Gedoemde dichters (les poètes maudits) – Paul Rodenko (1957)............................................84
40.Het rijk van Venus – Morus (1957)..........................................................................................87
41.Alissa en Adrienne - door Adriaan Morrien (1957)..................................................................88
42.Uitnodiging tot ergernis – J. Greshoff (1957)...........................................................................89
43."Het drieluik van het kwaad" - door Anthonie Donker (1958).................................................91
44.Het einde van de antieke wereld – Santo Mazzarino (1959)....................................................92
45.Herinneringen aan de oude tijd – Annie Salomons (1960).......................................................93
46.Het Gevaar - door Jos Vandeloo (1960)....................................................................................95
47.Saint-Exupéry - door J.C. Ibert (1961).....................................................................................96
48. Een Rotterdams Kind en andere ontmoetingen (1962)............................................................97
49.Bert Brecht - door Willy Haas (1963).......................................................................................98
50.De godsdienst der primitieve volken van William Howells (1963)..........................................99
51.Leer Uzelf Archeologie – Hans Kayser (1963)......................................................................101
52.Hermann Hesse in woord en beeld – Bernhard Zeller (1963)................................................103
53.Opmerkingen over de chaos – H.J.A. Hofland (1963)...........................................................104
54.Picasso - door Pierre Daix (1964)...........................................................................................105
55.Mens en Engel – Adriaan Morriën..........................................................................................106
56.Uit de Europese prehistorie - door Friedrich Behn (1964).....................................................107
57.Sex in History – g. rattray taylor (1965).................................................................................109
58.De geverfde vogel – Jerzy Kosinski (1965)............................................................................110
59.Geschiedenis van Engeland - Ernest Llewellyn Woodward (1965)........................................111
60.Het verborgen leven – Steven Marcus (1967)........................................................................112
61.Honderd jaar eenzaamheid – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)...............................................113
62.Het boek van de denkbeeldige wezens – Borges (1967)........................................................114
63.De laatste drie pausen en de Joden – Pinchas E. Lapide (1967).............................................115
64.De naakte aap – Desmond Morris (1967)...............................................................................116
65.De dood van Jezus – Joel Carmichael (1967).........................................................................117
66.De ontwrichting van de Duitse literatuur, Muschg Walter (1968)..........................................118
67.Zeggen en Schrijven (1968)....................................................................................................121
68.Symboliek van man en vrouw – dr. G.A. De Wit (1968).......................................................122
69.Roermond in oude ansichten (1969).......................................................................................123
70.Turks Fruit - door Jan Wolkers (1969)....................................................................................124
71.Q.B. VII – Leon Uris (1970)...................................................................................................125
72.De vrouw als eunuch – Germaine Greer (1970).....................................................................126
73.De werelden van M.C. Escher - redactie van J.L. Locher (1971)..........................................127
74.Kredietverlening aan afnemers – P.H.M. Richter (1971).......................................................128
75.Stijn Streuvels - door André Demedts (1971).........................................................................131
76.Invloeden op de literatuur (1972)...........................................................................................133
77.Solzjenitsyn (1973).................................................................................................................136

78.Onachterhaalbare tijd – Gerard Knuvelder (1974).................................................................137
79.De kinderen van het slijk – Octavio Paz (1974).....................................................................139
80.Zen en de Kunst van het Motoronderhoud - Robert M. Pirsig (1974)...................................141
81.Karl Marx – door Fritz J. Raddatz..........................................................................................146
82.Beleving van grenssituaties (1975).........................................................................................147
83.Had ik maar beter geluisterd – Marten Toonder (1973, 1976)...............................................148
84.Het boek als wereld – Marilyn French (1976)........................................................................149
85.Van Gogh en zijn weg – door Jan Hulsker (1977)..................................................................153
86.Franz Kafka - Verzameld Werk (1977)...................................................................................154
87.Erotica – Anais Nin (1977).....................................................................................................155
88.De naïeve wereld van Haddelsey – door Caroline Singer (1978)...........................................156
89.Acht over Gorter - onder redactie van Garmt Stuiveling (1978) ...........................................157
90.De geheime oorlog - door Brian Johnson (1978)...................................................................161
91.De Renner - van Tim Krabbé (1978)......................................................................................164
92.Uitvindingen en Ontdekkingen - door W. Sanderman (1978)................................................165
93.Ethica – Spinoza (1979)..........................................................................................................167
94.Tekens van Taal en Tijd - door E. Ottevaere (1979)...............................................................168
95.Broeder ezel – door Dr. A. J. Dunning (1981)........................................................................172
96.Alle verhalen van Jan Wolkers (1981) ...................................................................................173
97.Het weerbarstige Woord – Anton Constandse (Essays)..........................................................174
98.Vergeten en gebleven – G.H. 's-Gravensande (1982)............................................................175
99.Axels Burcht – Edmund Wilson (1982)..................................................................................176
100.Het raadsel B. Traven (1983)................................................................................................177
101.Pontifex – Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan Witts (1983)....................................................179
102.Het meer der herinnering – Rudy Kousbroek (1984)...........................................................180
103.Het leven van Franz Kafka - door Ernst Pawel (1984).........................................................181
104.Hoe ik om het leven kwam – Jacques Kruithof (1985) .......................................................185
105.Geschiedenis van de Russische Literatuur (1985) – Karel van het Reve.............................187
106.Failliet op Krediet – Lakeman, van de Ven (1985)...............................................................188
107.'Heel geestig, meneer Feynman!' - door Richard P. Feynman (1985)..................................190
108.Het leven in Lake Wobegon – Garrison Keillor (1985)........................................................191
109.De elite zwijgt – Lex Runderkamp en Feike Salverda (1986)..............................................192
110.Dekmantel - De geheime oorlogen van de CIA (1987)........................................................193
111.Anna Freud - een biografie door Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (1988)........................................194
112.Het Heelal - door Stephen Hawking (1988, 1997)...............................................................196
113.De slinger van Foucault - door Umberto Eco (1989)...........................................................197
114.Domweg gelukkig, in de Dapperstraat (1990)......................................................................198
115.Uitersten - door A.J. Dunning (1990)...................................................................................199
116.Het leven van Moravia - door Alberto Moravia en Alain Elkann (1991).............................200
117.Nieuwe schatten uit het verleden (1992)..............................................................................202
118.Oorlog lost nooit iets op – H.L. Wesseling (1993)...............................................................203
119.Een Geschiedenis van God - door Karen Armstrong (1993)................................................204
120.Het verborgen leven van Albert Einstein (1993)..................................................................207
121.Verleden tijd - Memoires van Adriaan Venema (1994)........................................................209
122.Het ontstaan en het einde van alles - door Graham Hancock (1995)....................................211
123.Maerlant's Wereld – Frits van Oostrom (1996).....................................................................214
124. Hoe God verdween uit Jorwerd – Geert Mak (1996)..........................................................215
125. De filosoof zonder ogen – Cees Nooteboom (1997)...........................................................216
126.Stof van dromen – door A.J. Dunning (1997).......................................................................218
127.De kwestie Heine – Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1997)...............................................................219

128.De heilige Antonio door Arnon Grunberg (1998).................................................................220
129.Nederlandse literatuur - een geschiedenis (1998).................................................................221
130.Sferen – Peter Sloterdijk (1998)...........................................................................................222
131.De troost van de filosofie - van Alain de Botton (2000).......................................................224
132.De kunst van het reizen – door Alain de Botton (2002).......................................................225
133.De Vliegeraar – Khaled Hosseini (2003)..............................................................................227
134.De boekendief – Markus Zusak (2005)................................................................................228
135.Oorlog in Gallië? - van Gaius Julius Caesar (2006).............................................................229
136.De architectuur van het geluk – Alain de Botton (2006)......................................................230
137.Het raadsel der herkenning – door Rudy Kousbroek (2007)................................................231
138.Verleden van Nederland – van Geert Mak en 4 medeauteurs (2008)...................................232
139.De kunst van het ouder worden – Joep Dohmen & Jan Baars (2010)..................................236
140.Notities bij „Wij zijn ons Brein“ - door Dick Swaab (2010)................................................237
141.Vaslav door Arthur Japin (2010)...........................................................................................242
142.Steve Jobs – door Walter Isaacson (2011)............................................................................243
143.Reizen zonder John – Geert Mak (2012)..............................................................................248
144. Continent in beweging – Cees Nooteboom (2013)..............................................................252
145.Oorlog en terpentijn – Stefan Hertmans (2013)....................................................................253
146.Erfgoed van de Brabanders – Jan van Oudheusden (2014)..................................................254
147.Dit kan niet waar zijn – Joris Luyendijk (2015)...................................................................257
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1Baierische Chronik - Johannes Aventinus (1523)..........................................................................2

2Auswahl der besten Essais von Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592).............................................3
3Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus - C. v. Grimmelshausen (1669) ............................................4
4Evangelische Deutsche Original-Bibel von 1741..........................................................................5
5Bekenntnisse von Rousseau (1762)...............................................................................................6
6Vermächtnis von Johann Gottfried Pahl (1799).............................................................................7
7Aelteste Geschichte der Deutschen - von J. C. Adelung (1806)..................................................14
8Dichtung und Wahrheit – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1809-1831)........................................23
9Deutsche Grammatik - von Jacob Grimm (1818).......................................................................24
10Deutsche Mythologie - von Jacob Grimm (1835).....................................................................26
11Das Runen-Wörterbuch - von Udo Waldemar Dieterich (1844)...............................................29
12Arthur Schopenhauers Werke in Fünf Bändern (1859).............................................................30
13Heimathskunde von Thüringen – J.C. Kronfeld (1861)............................................................32
14Das Hauptwerk - von Friedrich Nietzsche (1871..1889)...........................................................33
15Die Gesänge des Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont (1874)....................................................34
16Gesammelte Werke – Eduard Mörike (1875)............................................................................35
17Huckleberry Finn – von Mark Twain (1876-1885)....................................................................36
18Der Sohar - nach dem Urtext von Ernst Müller.........................................................................37
19Der goldene Zweig - von James George Frazer (1890).............................................................40
20Briefe und Tagebücher - von Franz Kafka (1902-1924)............................................................42
21Die Kabbala - von Papus (1903)................................................................................................43
22Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß von Robert Musil (1906).............................................46
23Das Land der Blinden – auserwählte Erzälungen – H.G. Wells (1911).....................................48
24Der Ursprung der Gottesidee: Von Wilhelm Schmidt (1912)....................................................49
25Money - von Gustavus Myers (1916)........................................................................................52
26Der Untergang des Abendlandes – Oswald Spengler (1923).....................................................54

27Die Falschmünzer - von André Gide (1925)..............................................................................55
28Stirb und Werde – von André Gide (1926) ...............................................................................57
29Die Cabala – Thornton Wilder (1926).......................................................................................59
30Ein Pyrenäenbuch von Kurt Tucholsky (1927)..........................................................................60
31Die Brücke von San Luis Rey von Thornton Wilder (1927).....................................................62
32Borgia – von Klabund (1928)....................................................................................................63
33Liber Novus (Das rote Buch) - von C.G. Jung (1930)...............................................................64
34Goethe – von Emil Ludwig (1931)............................................................................................65
35Fabian - von Erich Kästner (1931)...........................................................................................66
36Die Morgenlandfahrt – Hermann Hesse (1932).........................................................................67
37Du und die Erde - von Hendrik Willem van Loon (1932).........................................................68
38Gastmahl - von Platon (1934)....................................................................................................70
39Ich Claudius - von Robert von Ranke Graves (1934)................................................................71
40Das Schloss - Roman von Frank Kafka (1935).........................................................................72
41Gilles' Frau – Madeleine Bourdouxhe (1937)...........................................................................73
42Schachnovelle – Stefan Zweig (1938-1941)..............................................................................74
43Früchte des Zorns – John Steinbeck (1939)...............................................................................75
44Wind, Sand und Sterne – von Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1939)..............................................76
45Wem die Stunde schlägt - von Ernest Hemingway (1940)........................................................77
46Sternstunden der Menschheit – Stefan Zweig (1943)................................................................78
47Die Romane und die großen Erzählungen – H. Hesse (1943)...................................................79
48Philosophie des Abendlandes – Bertrand Russell (1945)..........................................................81
49Die Amerikaner – von Geoffrey Gorer (1948)..........................................................................84
50Die Stadt in der Wüste – von Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1948)...............................................85
51Die Iden des März - von Thornton Wilder (1948).....................................................................87
52Moralia - von Plutarch (45-125 n.C.)........................................................................................88
53Schnee auf dem Kilimandscharo: 6 Stories - von Hemingway (1950)......................................90
54Yoga-Wege der Befreiung – von I.M. Spath (1951)..................................................................91
55Baumeister der Welt - von Stefan Zweig (1951).......................................................................92
56Das Mysterium der Zahl - von Franz Carl Endres (1951).........................................................93
57Yoga, Wege zur Selbstbefreiung - von I.M. Spath (1951).........................................................95
58Ernst Haeckel - von Georg Uschmann (1954)...........................................................................96
59Briefe an Rinette - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1955)................................................................98
60Cézanne, Manet und Toulouse Lautrec - von Henri Perruchet (1956)......................................99
61Sigmund Freud – von Ludwig Marcuse (1956).......................................................................102
62Die Kunst des Liebens - Erich Fromm (1956).........................................................................103
63Wir Wunderkinder – Hugo Hartung (1957).............................................................................105
64Marcel – Eine Kindheit in der Provence – von Marcel Pagnol (1957)....................................107
65Germania / die Annalen - von Tacitus (1957)..........................................................................108
66Irisches Tagebuch – Heinrich Böll (1957)...............................................................................109
67Das Versprechen von Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1958) ................................................................110
68Anne Frank: Spur eines Kindes (1958)....................................................................................111
69Leonardo – Abendmahl – von Ludwig H. Heydenreich (1958)..............................................112
70Picasso, Leben und Werk von Roland Penrose (1958)............................................................113
71Thomas Mann – von Erich Heller (1959-1976).......................................................................115
72Brecht – von Marianne Kesting (1959)...................................................................................116
73Johann Gottfried Herder - von Ernst Baur (1960)...................................................................117
74Aura – Carlos Fuentes (1961)..................................................................................................118
75Irisches Tagebuch - von Heinrich Böll (1961).........................................................................119
76Versunkene Kulturen - von Edward Bacon (1963)..................................................................120

77Leben mit Picasso - von Françoise Gilot und Carlton Lake (1964)........................................121
78Die Wörter – Jean-Paul Sartre (1965)......................................................................................123
79Die Ordnung der Dinge von Michel Foucault (1966)..............................................................124
80Die philosophische Hintertreppe - von Wilhelm Weischedel (1966)......................................128
81Van Gogh – von Rene Huyghe (1967).....................................................................................130
82Literatur als Herausforderung – Ludovic Janvier (1967)........................................................131
83Deutschland deine Schwaben – Thaddäus Troll (1967)..........................................................132
84Preisend mit viel schönen Reden – Thaddäus Troll (1972).....................................................132
85Falsch programmiert von Karl Steinbuch (1968)....................................................................133
86Ssonja Tolstoj - von Alexandra Rachmanowa (1968)..............................................................135
87Spuren – Ernst Bloch (1969)...................................................................................................136
88Thomas Mann – von Roman Karst (1970)..............................................................................137
89Das Peter-Prinzip - von Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull (1970).......................................138
90Auslämdische Dichter und Schriftsteller – F. Lennartz (1971)...............................................139
91Tagebuch 1966-1971 – von Max Frisch (1972).......................................................................140
92Sprache des Möglichen – von Dietrich Hochstätter (1972).....................................................141
93Materialien zu Hermann Hesses “Das Glasperlenspiel” (1973)..............................................142
94Die Ordnung des Diskurses – Michel Foucault (1977)...........................................................143
95Robert Musil von Robert L. Roseberry (1974).......................................................................144
96Schwabenreport. 1900-1914 von Hermann Freudenberger (1975).........................................145
97Materialien zu Hermann Hesses „Der Steppenwolf“ (1975)...................................................150
98Van Gogh - von Pierre Cabanne (1975)...................................................................................151
99Ungeteilte Erinnerungen – von Simone Signoret (1976).........................................................153
100Die Bajuwaren – von Hans F. Nöhbauer (1976)....................................................................154
101Wege der deutschen Literatur – ein Lesebuch (1976).........................................................155
102C.G. Jung - Prophet des Unbewussten - von Paul J. Stern (1976).........................................156
103Brecht in Augsburg - von W. Frisch und K.W. Obermeier (1976)........................................157
104Die Erzählungen – Gabriel García Márquez (1947-1976).....................................................159
105Der Theoretiker Goethe – von Heinz Hamm (1976).............................................................160
106Jubiläumsausgabe zum 100sten Geburtstag von H. Hesse (1977)........................................161
107Hermann Hesse – Gesammelte Erzählungen (1977).............................................................162
108Mozart – von Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1977).......................................................................163
109Kleist – Klaus Birkenhauer (1977)........................................................................................165
110Rätselhaftes Wissen - Gerd von Haßler (1977)......................................................................166
111Hohe Schule der Verführung - von Martin Morlock (1977)..................................................167
112Tagebücher 1920-1922, Autobiographische Aufz. - Brecht (1978).......................................169
113Lügen – Sissela Bok (1978)...................................................................................................171
114Die Geschichten John Cheevers (1978/1995)........................................................................172
115Gesammelte Werke von Robert Musil (1978).......................................................................175
116Der Diamant des Salomon – Noah Gordon (1979)................................................................178
117Gödel, Escher, Bach - von Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979).....................................................179
118Über Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1980).........................................................................................180
119Zeit-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher (1980)..................................................................................186
120Klassiker Heute – Teil 1 (1980).............................................................................................187
121Die Bibel - Einheitsübersetzung (1980).................................................................................191
122Ideen zur Kunstgeschichte – Gottfried Richter (1982)..........................................................195
123Orwells 1984 – Robert Plank (1983).....................................................................................197
124Zwiesprache – Octavio Paz (1984)........................................................................................198
125Die Türen öffnen sich langsam – Raissa Olrlowa-Kopelew (1984)......................................199
126Rätselhaftes Wissen von Gerd von Haßler (1984).................................................................200

127Ein strahlendes Ende - von François Bucher (1984).............................................................201
128Die Klassiker der englischen Literatur – (1985)....................................................................202
129Der Nil - von Gerhard Konzelmann (1985)...........................................................................203
130Das Lied des Lebens – von Hermann Hesse (1986)..............................................................204
131Edgar Allan Poe – Frank T. Zumbach (1986)........................................................................205
132Die Berliner Antigone von Rolf Hochhuth (1986)................................................................206
133Anatomie der Macht – John Kenneth Galbraith (1987)........................................................207
134Sturmhöhen – von Jeanne Champion (1987).........................................................................209
135Die Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur Allié & Nagler (1987)......................................210
136Ich bin eine Frau aus Ägypten - von Jehan Sadat (1987)......................................................211
137Der Unbeirrbare von Howard Fast (1988).............................................................................212
138Geheimkulte: Das Standardwerk - von Will-Erich Peuckert (1988).....................................213
139Salz auf unserer Haut - Roman von Benoîte Groult (1988)..................................................215
140Tschernobyl - von Frederik Pohl (1988)................................................................................216
141Die großen Erfindungen – von Roland Gööck......................................................................217
142Gauguin – von Rene Huyghe (1989).....................................................................................218
143Die Bibel – mit Bildern von Salvador Dali (1989)................................................................219
144“Autoren der Zeit...................................................................................................................220
145Geschichten der Eva Luna – Isabel Allende (1990)..............................................................221
146Der Jordan – Gerhard Konzelmann (1990)............................................................................222
147Die Hethiter - von Johannes Lehmann (1991).......................................................................223
148Schöpfungsmythen der östlichen Welt – v. Barbara C. Sproul (1991)..................................225
149Sofies Welt - von Jostein Gaarder (1991)..............................................................................226
150Der Umweg nach Santiago – Cees Nooteboom (1992).........................................................228
151Irren ist männlich -von Christiane Tramitz (1993)................................................................229
152Leben zwischen Haben und Sein von Erich Fromm (1993)..................................................230
153Voltaire (1993).......................................................................................................................231
154Versuch über die Liebe – Alain de Botton (1993).................................................................232
155Gnosis - Das Buch der verborgenen Evangelien (1994)........................................................233
156Schwarzbuch - von Bernt Engelmann (1994)........................................................................235
157Lao-Tse (Lau Dse) von Tao-te-king (Dau-De-Dsching) (1995)............................................237
158Der Regemacher – von John Grisham (1995).......................................................................238
159Das Buch der Tugenden - von Ulrich Wickert (1995)...........................................................239
160Der Vorleser - von Bernhard Schlink (1995).........................................................................240
161Die Unsterblichkeit der Zeit - von Paul Davies (1995).........................................................241
162Bernstein, Tränen der Götter – von Slotta und Ganzelewski (1996).....................................243
163Das Kartell der Kassierer – Günter Ogger (1996).................................................................246
164Paul Gauguin – von Assja Kantor-Gukowskaja, u.a. (1996).................................................247
165Landkarten in Prosa - Truman Capote (1996) ......................................................................248
166Die Päpstin - von Donna Woolfolk Cross (1996)..................................................................249
167Heimatbuch Spiegelberg (1996)............................................................................................250
168In die Wildnis - von Jon Krakauer (1996).............................................................................254
169Wie Proust Ihr Leben verändern kann – Alain de Botton (1997)..........................................255
170Ein neues Weltbild - von Joachim Gartz (1998)....................................................................257
171Sternstunden der Philosophie – Otto A. Böhmer (1998).......................................................259
172Was soll das alles? - von Richard P. Feynman (1998)...........................................................260
173Knaurs Historischer Weltatlas (1978-1999)...........................................................................261
174Bildung - von Dietrich Schwanitz (1999)..............................................................................262
175Der Tempel und die Loge - Von M. Baigent und R. Leigh (1999)........................................263
176Die Apokalypsen - von Rosel Termolen (1999)....................................................................267

177Mein Leben – Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1999).........................................................................268
178Es ist so einfach? - von Richard P. Feynman (1999).............................................................270
179Geheime Botschaften - von Simon Singh (1999)..................................................................271
180Edvard Munch (1863-1944) – von Ulrich Bischoff (1999)...................................................273
181Friedrich der Große, – von Paul F. Bockius (1999)...............................................................275
182Bach und Ich - Von Maarten 't Hart (2000)............................................................................276
183Das Lächeln der Medusa - von Peter Watson (2000).............................................................277
184Frau Sartoris – Elke Schmitter (2000)...................................................................................280
185Der entzauberte Regenbogen – Richard Dawkins (2000).....................................................281
186Fermats letzter Satz - von Simon Singh (2000).....................................................................281
187Flügelrauschen – K. Haraldsdottir und H. Seelow (HG.) (2000)..........................................284
188Stuttgart – von Irene Ferchl (2000)........................................................................................286
189Die Kelten von Alexander Demandt (2001)..........................................................................287
190ABAP Objects von Horst Keller und Sascha Krüger (2001).................................................288
191Denken, Lernen, Vergessen von Frederic Vester (2001)........................................................289
192Stupid White Men - von Michael Moore (2002)...................................................................290
193Die Entdeckung des Unendlichen – David Foster Wallace (2003)........................................291
194Deutschlands Frühgeschichte – von Friedrich Prinz (2003)..................................................292
195Die Lieblingsgedichte der Deutschen (2003)........................................................................293
196Religion als Risiko - von Detlef B. Linke (2003)..................................................................294
197Bernstorf - von Manfred Moosauer und Traudl Bachmaier (2005).......................................296
198Kollaps - von Jared Diamond (2005).....................................................................................298
199Herzöge, Bürger, Könige von Hermann Missenharter (2005)...............................................299
200Der Brenner & Tuisc Codex - von Joannes Richter (2006)...................................................301
201Rheinsberg / Schloss Gripsholm von Kurt Tucholsky (2006)...............................................306
202Der Gotteswahn - von Richard Dawkins (2006)...................................................................308
203Donau, Fürsten und Druiden - Kelten entlang der Donau (2006).........................................310
204Teutates & Konsorten – Johannes Lehmann (2006).............................................................312
205dtv-Atlas Weltgeschichte – Von Anfäng bis zur Gegenwart (2006)......................................314
206Mehr bedarfs nicht - ausgewählt von Jörg Amann................................................................316
207Mein Leben ohne Gestern – von Lisa Genova (2007)...........................................................317
208Wer bin ich - von Richard David Precht (2007)....................................................................318
209Jahres-Chronik - Der Spiegel (2008).....................................................................................321
210Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod – von Bastian Sick (2008).............................................322
211So regiert die Kanzlerin - von Margaret Heckel (2009).......................................................323
212Euroland - wo unser Geld verbrennt–von Thomas Wieczorek (2010)..................................324
213Schulden – Die ersten 5000 Jahren - von David Graeber (2011)..........................................325
214Der größte Raubzug der Geschichte - Weik & Friedrich (2012)...........................................328
215Wirtschaft am Abgrund – Paul Craig Roberts (2012)............................................................330
216Die Bernsteinstrasse – v. Gisela Graichen, Alexander Hesse (2012)....................................332
2171913 – von Florian Illies (2012)............................................................................................333
218Die Witwe der Brüder van Gogh – Camilo Sánchez (2012)..................................................334
219Das Spinoza-Problem von Irvin D. Yalom (2012).................................................................335
220Amerikas Kriege(r) – von Paul Craig Roberts (2013)...........................................................339
221Wem gehört die Zukunft – von Jaron Lanier (2013).............................................................342
222Die Welt aus den Fugen – Peter Scholl-Latour (2013)..........................................................343
223Lists of Note – von Shaun Usher (2014)...............................................................................344
224Der Crash ist die Lösung – Matthias Weik & Marc Friedrich (2014)...................................345
225Darm mit Charme – von Giulia Enders (2014)......................................................................347
226Shakespeare in 30 Sekunden – von Ros Barber (2014).........................................................348

227Goethes Freunde in Gotha und Weimar – von Sigrid Damm (2014).....................................349
228Wem gehört Deutschland? - Jens Berger (2015)...................................................................353
229Otto von Guericke – Klaus Liebers (2015)............................................................................354
230Das geheime Leben der Bäume von Peter Wohlleben (2015)...............................................355
231Das Seelenleben der Tiere – Peter Wohlleben (2016)............................................................356
232Die Macht der Geographie – Tim Marshall (Ausgabe 2017)................................................357

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1. Zohar, Bereshith to Lekh Lekha (1300)

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From Tetragrammaton-entry at Wikipedia we may learn:

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in Dutch: (Ivo de Wijs in De Tijd van 24/8/1990)

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• Kwan-Shai-Yin is identical with, and an equivalent of the Sanskrit Avalokiteshwara, and as

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Red and Blue

See keynotes to The Tetragrammaton

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Notes on Molly's Monologue

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Keywords in Th. Wilder's “The Bridge of Saint Louis the King” 5

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A bridge as a communication link

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Introduction to Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust

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Notes to A Room of One's Own (1929) ISBN 0 586 04449 3

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2. W.B. Yeats (26)

3. Paul Valéry (64)

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5. Marcel Proust (132)

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8. (conclusion): Axel and Rimbaud (257)

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Notes (and translations)

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Notes to the intro “Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)”

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