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$4.4Billion Dollar Ballz
USS Zumwalt
The largest destroyer ever built for the US Navy - the USS Zumwalt - left Bath, Maine and is headed out to sea for the first time.600 feet. 15,000 tons. A $4.4 billion price tag. http://on.whdh.com/1loGooL
Posted by 7NEWS - WHDH on Monday, December 7, 2015
THE LIBRARY OF BABEL by Jorge Luis Borges
1. Stories by Julio Cortázar (not sure if this refers to Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, or neither)
2. & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
6. & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
10. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
12. The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
13. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
14. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
15. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
16. & 17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
19. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
20. Tales of Ise by Ariwara no Narihara
21. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
22. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
23. The Three Impostors
24. Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
25. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
26. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
28. Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
29. Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
30. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
31. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
32. On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
33. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
34. The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
35. Travels by Marco Polo
36. Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
37. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
38. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
39. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
40. Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
41. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
43. & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
45. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
46. Tales by Rudyard Kipling
47. Vathek by William Beckford
48. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
49. The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
50. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
51. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
52. The Thousand and One Nights
53. New Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. Salvation of the Jews, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
55. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
56. Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
57. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor’s Return by David Garnett
58. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
59. Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
60. The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
61. The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
62. Complete Poetry by William Blake
63. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
64. Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
65. Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
66. The Aeneid by Virgil
67. Stories by Voltaire
68. An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
69. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
70. & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
72. Egil’s Saga by Snorri Sturluson
73. The Book of the Dead
74. & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn
2. & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
6. & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
10. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
12. The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
13. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
14. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
15. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
16. & 17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
19. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
20. Tales of Ise by Ariwara no Narihara
21. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
22. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
23. The Three Impostors
24. Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
25. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
26. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
28. Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
29. Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
30. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
31. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
32. On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
33. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
34. The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
35. Travels by Marco Polo
36. Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
37. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
38. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
39. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
40. Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
41. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
43. & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
45. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
46. Tales by Rudyard Kipling
47. Vathek by William Beckford
48. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
49. The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
50. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
51. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
52. The Thousand and One Nights
53. New Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. Salvation of the Jews, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
55. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
56. Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
57. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor’s Return by David Garnett
58. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
59. Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
60. The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
61. The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
62. Complete Poetry by William Blake
63. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
64. Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
65. Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
66. The Aeneid by Virgil
67. Stories by Voltaire
68. An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
69. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
70. & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
72. Egil’s Saga by Snorri Sturluson
73. The Book of the Dead
74. & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015
books
Shocking Paris
by Stanley Meisler
Soutine's migrations and paranoia fulfilled.
M Train
by Patti Smith
Japanese style prose, NYC blues, and coffee.
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
Up and down the Ganges to Calcutta, East Africa and Baltimore in the 19th Century.
Rhythm & Blues: A Life in American Music
Autobiography of Jerry Wexler
A NY street kid turned producer of Ray, Aretha, Doug Sahm, Willie, and the christian albums of Bob Dylan.
My Guru and His Disciple
by Christopher Isherwood
Worn from dark adventures in Weimar Germany, a WW2 pacifist moves west to write for the movies, meditate, devote to an Indian Swami, seek Samadhi, hangout with Huxley, Cukor, Garbo, and cruise the gay spots in the blacked-out nights of air raid Hollywood.
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
Autobiography of Elvis Costello
Sensitive memoir of an un-apologetic emotional narcissist who paid attention to everything his showbiz Dad, TAMLA, and England in the 60s and 70s taught him.
The Hunters
by James Salter
Elegant novel about the male competitive hang-ups of Korean War ace and casualty pilots.
Prater Violet
by Christopher Isherwood
A book about making a movie in England as Europe fell to the Fascists.
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
by Elijah Wald
More than The Crossroads. More than one man and guitar on the jukeboxes of Mississippi with Mamie Smith, Sippie Wallace, Peetie Wheatstraw, Harlem Hamfats, Mississippi Sheiks, and Leroy Carr.
Music on my Mind
by Willie "The Lion" Smith
Survives a North Jersey afro-yiddish childhood and WWI artillery to cross the Hudson and play all the spots with Fats and James P. Johnson and everyone else.
by Stanley Meisler
Soutine's migrations and paranoia fulfilled.
M Train
by Patti Smith
Japanese style prose, NYC blues, and coffee.
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
Up and down the Ganges to Calcutta, East Africa and Baltimore in the 19th Century.
Rhythm & Blues: A Life in American Music
Autobiography of Jerry Wexler
A NY street kid turned producer of Ray, Aretha, Doug Sahm, Willie, and the christian albums of Bob Dylan.
My Guru and His Disciple
by Christopher Isherwood
Worn from dark adventures in Weimar Germany, a WW2 pacifist moves west to write for the movies, meditate, devote to an Indian Swami, seek Samadhi, hangout with Huxley, Cukor, Garbo, and cruise the gay spots in the blacked-out nights of air raid Hollywood.
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
Autobiography of Elvis Costello
Sensitive memoir of an un-apologetic emotional narcissist who paid attention to everything his showbiz Dad, TAMLA, and England in the 60s and 70s taught him.
The Hunters
by James Salter
Elegant novel about the male competitive hang-ups of Korean War ace and casualty pilots.
Prater Violet
by Christopher Isherwood
A book about making a movie in England as Europe fell to the Fascists.
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
by Elijah Wald
More than The Crossroads. More than one man and guitar on the jukeboxes of Mississippi with Mamie Smith, Sippie Wallace, Peetie Wheatstraw, Harlem Hamfats, Mississippi Sheiks, and Leroy Carr.
Music on my Mind
by Willie "The Lion" Smith
Survives a North Jersey afro-yiddish childhood and WWI artillery to cross the Hudson and play all the spots with Fats and James P. Johnson and everyone else.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
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