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APOCRYPHA

                                  September 16, 2004

If I can be 
said to have:

  BIBLES

Then there is also Apocrypha,  
books that don't quite make             THINKING_HOWTO
it into the cannon, or once 
did but have now fallen out 
of favor...         

   Arthur Koestler,  
   "The Sleepwalkers"
                                                            
   James Howard Kunstler,           NOWHERE_MAN                         
   "Geography of Nowhere"

   Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers,
   "Order Out of Chaos"                       PRIGOGINE

   Kevin Kelley,       
   "Out of Control"              CONTROL
                  
   Lucas Reinhardt,
   "The Dice Man"              DICE
                                       
   R. Buckminster Fuller,              
   "Ideas and Integrities"             
                                       
   Ed Sanders, 
   "Investigative Poetry"
                                       
   Nietzsche,                   TRAGEDY
   "The Birth of Tragedy"  

   W.S. Arens
   "The Man-Eating Myth"

   Samuel Floriman                               FLORID
   "The Existential Pleasures of Engineering"



Interesting volumes that have probably never quite 
made the cut for me:

   "Nausea" by Jean Paul Sartre

   Robert Heinlein,            HEINLEIN
   "Starship Troopers"

   Ayn Rand,                        RAND
   "The Fountainhead" 
   "Atlas Shrugged" 
                    
   Jack Kerouac,                 KEROUAC
   "The Dharma Bums" 

   "Pirate Utopias" by Peter Lambourne Wilson    
                                                                    
   "Temporary Autonomous Zones" by Hakim Bey

Maybe this list is excessively pretentious though.
When you really come down to it, there should be 
books like this on the list:

   "Doorways in the Sand" by Roger Zelazny.

    A relatively light-weight book (though not 
    as low as Zelazny eventually sunk, mining     TAKEN_LIGHTLY    
    that vein of Amber)... but didn't it have a         
    serious effect on the mental well-being of 
    the teenage version of myself that read it 
    so many times?

  And perhaps also:

     Clifford D. Simak   "Time is the Simplest Thing"
     Jack Williamson     "Darker Than You Think"
     Robert Heinlein     "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel"



And maybe I should invent a new category for stuff
that doesn't quite make it into the "Apocrypha"?

   "The Last Intellectuals" by Russell Jacoby 

                                    LAST_INTELLECTUALS

   "The Nation" by James Fallows; "The Threat" by Andrew Cockburn.




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