As the mind perceives all kinds of gross natural objects and admits their images
into its consciousness, it creates for itself, out of this natural function,
a certain mode of existence which bears the stamp of finiteness. The normal life of the
soul, in other words, is kept within the limits determined by our sensory perceptions
and emotions, and as long as it is full of these, it finds it extremely difficult to
perceive the existence of spiritual forms and things divine. The problem, therefore, is to
find a way of helping the soul to perceive more than the forms of nature, without its
becoming blinded and overwhelmed by the divine light, and the solution is suggested by
the old adage "whoever is full of himself has no room for God." All that which occupies
the natural self of man must either be made to disappear or must be tranformed in such
a way as to render it transparent for the inner spiritual reality, whose contours will
then become perceptible through the customary shell of natural things.
- Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism,
"Abulafia and the Doctrine of Prophetic Kabbalism"
Stereoscopy
The New Edison-style Cup Phonograph Kit, by Gakken
The Teanola brand DIY paper-strip music box
The DIY paper-strip music box by Kikkerland
Player-piano rolls...
Hour of the Wolf BERGMAN
Modern Times CHAPLIN
The Passion of Joan of Arc DREYER
Cache HANEKE
HERZOG Bells from the Deep
The Dark Glow of the Mountains / Gasherbrum Der leuchtende Berg
"Shih-t'ao himself, like all traditional Chinese artists, learned by copying the styles of old masters; and he continued to advocate connoisseurship as a
necessary foundation for developing artistic insight. He was primarily addressing those who, having passed through this process of training, then found themselves
constrained by the weight of the Orthodox approach to antiquity and were unable, or unwilling, to define their own identity. How to understand, select, and utilize the
elements of the "Great Tradition" of landscape painting were of concern to all serious Chinese artists of the seventeenth century. Shih-t'ao's critique of Orthodoxy
is a response to this issue of creative closure. His solution ultimately requires a transcendence of the limitaitons of historicism and a recovery of a holistic
foundation in art. By regrounding the act of painting in concepts of unity and autonomy, Shih-t'ao sought to recapture the transparency of Nature, art, and mind which
the original theorists of literati painting in the Sung had formulated. The encounter with a spiritual order in Nature which then awaits visual representation from
within the self reestablishes the act of painting in an experience more primal than identification with the styles of other artists. It is this liberating and
empowering intention behind Shih-t'ao's theory which prevents the Enlightening Remarks from advocating painting as solely a commentary on other paintings,
or, from posing as yet another orthodoxy." - Richard E. Strassburg
"It is a long time since I have read with such a healthy appetite and at the same time with so much
gluttony. Each new idea drawn from my reading, as soon as it enters my head, links up with something;
it seems to me that I was waiting for it; its place was ready. I recall certain readings in my childhood,
so voluptuously penetrating that I felt the sentence almost physically enter my heart. This evening I again
felt that marvellous sensation." — Andre Gide
"Reading about those things was like being way off in a wonderful world that nobody knows about,
and you're getting a kick not only from the delight of learning the stuff itself, but also from
making yourself unique." — Richard Feynman
faaaaaavorite books
Woody Allen The Complete Prose Louis AlthusserThe Future Lasts Forever Claudio Arrau Conversations with Arrau Marcus Aurelius Meditations John Ashbery Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror Girls on the Run Flow Chart Milton BabbittThe Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt Derek Bailey Improvisation BalthusVanished Splendors: A Memoir BANKSY Wall and Piece Roland BarthesMythologies Bela BartokRumanian Folk Music Kevin BazzanaLost Genius Samuel BeckettThree Novels Waiting for Godot Krapp’s Last Tape The Complete Short Prose Saul BellowHerzog John Berger Selected Essays Ingmar BergmanThe Magic Lantern Face to Face Yann Arthus-Bertrand Earth From Above – 365 Days Lee BontecouA Retrospective Jorge Luis BorgesThe Collected Fictions and Non-Fictions 7 Nights The Norton Lectures Stan BrakhageEssential Brakhage J. Bronowski The Ascent of Man Pierre Boulez Orientations The Boulez-Cage Correspondence Paul BowlesThe Stories of Andre BretonNadja Richard Maurice Bucke Cosmic Consciousness Charles BukowskiHam on Rye
Play the Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument... Love is a Dog From Hell
Mocking Bird Wish Me Luck Italo Calvino If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler Italian Folktales Joseph CampbellPrimitive Mythology: The Masks of God Carlos Casteneda Teachings of Don JuanA Separate Reality
The Art of Dreaming Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Anton ChekovThe Complete Short Novels Giorgio de Chirico Hebdomeros The Memoirs J. Ma. CorredorConversations with Casals Julio CortazarCronopios and Famas Hopscotch Blow-up and Other Short Stories Robert CreeleyFor Love Collected Prose Robert CrumbSketchbooks Crumb Family Comics Salvador Dali50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship The Secret Life of Salvador Dali Diary of a Genius Eugene DelacroixJournals Robert DescharnesDALÍ Michael DoranConversations with Cezanne David Douglas Duncan Picasso’s Picassos Freeman DysonInfinite In All Directions Black Elk Black Elk Speaks Ralph Waldo EmersonSelected Prose and Poetry Jorge EncisoDesign Motifs of Ancient Mexico Max ErnstUne Semaine De Bonté M.C. Escher Exploring the Infinite – Escher on Escher John FanteAsk the Dust William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! Morton Feldman Give My Regards to Eighth Street Richard FeynmanWhat Do You Care What Other People Think? Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Steven FosterVision Quest Buckminster Fuller Ideas and Integrities Mahatma Gandhi on Non-Violence Paul GauginNoa Noa Larry Gerstein Introduction to Mathematical Structures and Proofs Kahlil Gibran Spirits Rebellious The Prophet Andre GideJournals 1889-1949
The Immoralist Travels in the Congo Allen Ginsberg Howl Vincent van Gogh The Complete Letters Andre Gide The Counterfeiters Journals 1889 - 1949 Glenn Gould The Glenn Gould Reader Thich Nhat HanhThe Sun My Heart The World We Have Joan HalifaxShamanic Voices Knut HamsunPan G.H. Hardy A Mathematician’s Apology Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time Universe in a Nutshell Lafcadio HearnKwaidan Frank HerbertDune Werner HerzogHerzog on Herzog Abraham Joshua Heschel The Wisdom of Heschel
The Insecurity of Freedom
God in Search of Man Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game Journey to the East Wandering The Hesse/Mann Letters Steppenwolf Siddhartha Klingsor's Last Summer Demian Pictor’s Metamorphosis Stories of Five Decades The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse Narcissus and Goldmund Peter Camenzind Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception Heaven and Hell Charles IvesEssays Before a Sonata, The Majority and Other Writings Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind LeRoi JonesTales Alejandro JodorowskyThe Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky James Joyce Dubliners A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses C.G. Jung Memories Dreams Reflections Man and His Symbols Speaking – Interviews and Encounters Franz KafkaThe Complete Short Stories The Castle Wassily Kandinsky Complete Writings on Art Yasunari Kawabata The Master of Go Hazrat Inayat Khan Sound in Mysticism of Music Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Toward the One Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyyat Paul Klee The Diaries of Paul Klee J. Krishnamurti The Awakening of Intelligence Notebooks Giovanni Battista LampertiVocal Wisdom Bruce Lee The Art of Expressing the Human Body Claude Levi-StraussThe Raw and The Cooked Max Lüscher The Lüscher Color Test David LynchCatching the Big Fish Benoit Mandelbrot The Fractal Geometry of Nature Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain Gabriel Garcia MarquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian Herman MelvilleMoby Dick Olivier Messiaen Music and Color – Conversations with Claude Samuel Henri MichauxSelected Writings Joseph MitchellUp In The Old Hotel Philip and Phylis Morrison Powers of Ten Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities, Vols. I & II
Vladimir Nabokov Pnin Pale Fire Lolita Speak Memory, Speak Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya – The Nabokov-Wilson Letters Roger NicholsDebussy Remembered Robert Nozick An Examined Life Frank O’hara The Collected Poems Kakuzo Okakura The Book of Tea Charles Olsen The Maximus Poems Yoko Ono Grapefruit Osho The Book of Secrets Wilfred Owen The Collected Poems Boris PasternakI Remember Roger Penrose The Emperor’s New Mind Ezra Pound Selected Poems The Cantos Edward Quinn Max Ernst Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Only One Sky Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet Letters on Life Letters on Cezanne The Complete French Poems Duino Elegies Selected Poems Odilon Redon To Myself Gerhard Richter Writings 1962–1993 Carl Sagan Cosmos Billions and Billions Erik SatieA Mammal's Notebook Albert SavinioThe Lives of the Gods Artur SchnabelMy Life and Music Menachem Mendel SchneersonToward a Meaningful Life - The Wisdom of the Rebbe Arnold Schoenberg Style and Idea Miguel SerranoC.G. Jung and Herman Hesse Sam SheridanThe Fighter's Mind Goro ShimuraThe Map of My Life Dmitri ShostakovichTestimony Shel SilversteinDifferent Dances Constantin StanislavskiAn Actor Prepares Gertrude Stein On Picasso StendhalThe Red and the Black Karlheinz StockhausenStockhausen on Music Paul Stoller In Sorcery’s Shadow Hyemeyohsts StormSeven Arrows Igor StravinskyPoetics of Music Toru Takemitsu Confronting Silence Nikola TeslaMy Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla Dylan Thomas The Collected Stories Collected Poems Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina Chogyam Trungpa Meditation in Action The Myth of Freedom The Sacred Path of the Warrior Orderly Chaos
The Tibetan Book of the Dead Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching Sun TzuThe Art of War Morihei UeshibaTraining with the Master The Way of Peace Leonardo da VinciNotebooks Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan – The Smartest Kid on Earth Alan Watts The Way of Zen Nature, Man and Woman Wim Wenders Once Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray Stories Richard Wilhelm [translator] The Secret of the Golden Flower The I-Ching Understanding the I-Ching William Carlos Williams Pictures From Brueghel Edward Wilson The Diversity of Life Frank Lloyd WrightA Testament Iannis Xenakis Conversations Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi Man’s Eternal Quest Hiltgunt ZassenhausWalls Louis Zukofsky"A"
chess! M.M. Botvinnik Selected Games, 1967-1970 David Bronstein Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 Irving Chernev The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played Logical Chess Move by Move Gary Kasparov My Great Predecessors, all vols.
Aron Nimzowitsch My System John Nunn How to Win at Chess Quickly László Polgár 5,334 Problems, Combinations and Games L. Polugayevsky Grandmaster Performance C.J.S. Purdy His Life, His Games and His Writings Fine Art of Chess Annotation and Other Thoughts Jeremy Silman The Reassess Your Chess Workbook Mikhail Tal The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
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