DON QUIXOTE
Hear me now, oh thou bleak and unbearable world!
Thou art base and debauched as can be;
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee!
I am I, Don Quixote,
The lord of la Mancha,
My destiny calls and I go;
And the wild winds of fortune will carry me onward,
Oh whithersoever they blow.
Whithersoever they blow,
Onward to glory I go
Monday, May 31, 2004
100 Life-Changing Books: Chosen by NBA authors
Have you ever wondered what your favorite author likes to read? The Foundation asked National Book Award Winning and Finalist authors to provide use with a list of the books that changed their life. Here are their responses:
1. Absalom! Absalom!, William Faulkner
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
3. Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
4. All the Kings Men, Robert Penn Warren
5. Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
6. The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron
7. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
8. Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forester
9. Audubon: A Vision, Robert Penn Warren
10. Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
11. Beloved, Toni Morrison
12. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
13. Body Rags, Galway Kinnell
14. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
16. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
17. Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
18. The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
19. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
20. Confessions, St. Augustine
21. The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide
22. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23. Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America, edited by James A. Emanuel and Theodore L. Gross
24. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
25. A Death in the Family, James Agee
26. Death of a Lake, Arthur Upfield
27. Doktor Faustus, Thomas Mann
28. East of the Sun and West of the Moon
29. Eight Men, Richard Wright
30. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
31. Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
32. Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
33. Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce
34. Of a Fire on the Moon, Norman Mailer
35. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
36. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
37. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
38. Great Dialogues of Plato
39. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
40. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
42. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
43. The Essential Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
44. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
45. Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
46. Horseman, Pass By, Larry McMurtry
47. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
48. Kafka's Other Trial, Elias Canetti
49. The King James Bible
50. The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
51. Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
52. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
53. Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
54. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
55. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
56. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
57. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
58. Metamorphoses, Ovid
59. A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
60. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
61. Monsenor Quijote, Graham Greene
62. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
63. My Book House, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller
64. My Name Is Aram, William Saroyan
65. Native Son, Richard Wright
66. The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes, edited by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee
67. Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe
68. Open Secrets, Alice Munro
69. Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
70. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
71. Paradise Lost, John Milton
72. The Pointed Bone, Arthur Upfield
73. The Poorhouse Fair, John Updike
74. Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
75. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
76. The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
77. Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
78. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
79. The Richard Trilogy, Paul Horgan
80. A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud
81. The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
82. So Long, See You Tomorrow, William F. Maxwell
83. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, Breece D'J Pancake
84. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
85. The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki Shikibu
86. Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener
87. The Tempest, William Shakespeare
88. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
89. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
90. The Times Are Never So Bad, Andre Dubus
91. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
92. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
93. The Twelve Caesars, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
94. Ulysses, James Joyce
95. The Voices of Marrakesh, Elias Canetti
96. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
97. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
98. Watt, Samuel Beckett
99. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
100. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1. Absalom! Absalom!, William Faulkner
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
3. Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
4. All the Kings Men, Robert Penn Warren
5. Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
6. The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron
7. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
8. Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forester
9. Audubon: A Vision, Robert Penn Warren
10. Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
11. Beloved, Toni Morrison
12. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
13. Body Rags, Galway Kinnell
14. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
16. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
17. Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
18. The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
19. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
20. Confessions, St. Augustine
21. The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide
22. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23. Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America, edited by James A. Emanuel and Theodore L. Gross
24. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
25. A Death in the Family, James Agee
26. Death of a Lake, Arthur Upfield
27. Doktor Faustus, Thomas Mann
28. East of the Sun and West of the Moon
29. Eight Men, Richard Wright
30. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
31. Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
32. Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
33. Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce
34. Of a Fire on the Moon, Norman Mailer
35. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
36. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
37. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
38. Great Dialogues of Plato
39. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
40. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
42. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
43. The Essential Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
44. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
45. Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
46. Horseman, Pass By, Larry McMurtry
47. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
48. Kafka's Other Trial, Elias Canetti
49. The King James Bible
50. The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
51. Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
52. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
53. Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
54. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
55. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
56. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
57. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
58. Metamorphoses, Ovid
59. A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
60. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
61. Monsenor Quijote, Graham Greene
62. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
63. My Book House, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller
64. My Name Is Aram, William Saroyan
65. Native Son, Richard Wright
66. The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes, edited by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee
67. Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe
68. Open Secrets, Alice Munro
69. Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
70. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
71. Paradise Lost, John Milton
72. The Pointed Bone, Arthur Upfield
73. The Poorhouse Fair, John Updike
74. Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
75. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
76. The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
77. Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
78. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
79. The Richard Trilogy, Paul Horgan
80. A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud
81. The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
82. So Long, See You Tomorrow, William F. Maxwell
83. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, Breece D'J Pancake
84. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
85. The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki Shikibu
86. Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener
87. The Tempest, William Shakespeare
88. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
89. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
90. The Times Are Never So Bad, Andre Dubus
91. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
92. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
93. The Twelve Caesars, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
94. Ulysses, James Joyce
95. The Voices of Marrakesh, Elias Canetti
96. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
97. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
98. Watt, Samuel Beckett
99. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
100. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Friday, May 21, 2004
Who is Stephen Bishop Seely and why is everyone talking about him?
Who is Stephen Bishop Seely and why is everyone talking about him?
Hey y'all. I just updated my website. Just got a cable modem and am loving it.
Hey y'all. I just updated my website. Just got a cable modem and am loving it.
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