 | Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.64 "One day the day will come when the day will not come." (Paul Virilio)
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 | The Princess Casamassima (Penguin Classics) by Henry James
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $1.33 # 1 Hyacinth's self identity is in conflict; he has two identities--French/British.
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 | Henry James and H.G.Wells..A record of Thir Friendship, their debate on the art of Fiction, and their Quarrel: by Leon and Gordon N. Ray Edel
Buy used from: $24.57 # 2 James saw the novelist as a high priest of art, whereas Wells saw the novelist as a reformer and educationalist.
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 | The Time Machine (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $4.03 # 1 Morlochs are certainly Against the Day. Page 45 of The Time Machine: "...against the daylight..." Also has themes: Time, the Fourth Dimension, velocity, light, dark.
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 | Kim (Oxford World's Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $4.31 # 1 'The Great Game'; ; masks; disguises; Kim has two identities: He is born of Irish parents, but inwardly he is Punjabi.
"Among Sahibs, never forgetting thou art a Sahib; among the folk of Hind, always remembering thou art--"
What am I? Two separate sides to my head.
A curious quote: "but you cannot occupy two places in space simultaneously. Thatt is axiomatic"
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 | The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $12.00 # 1 The Great Game.
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 | Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth (The Works of William James) by William James
Buy new: $22.05 / Used from: $2.97 #1 Dilemma in philosophy: the Rocky Mountain tough-minded (empiricist) vs. the Bostonian tourist tender-minded (rationalist)
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 | Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (Working Classics) by Rudolf Rocker
Buy new: $11.07 / Used from: $7.98 # 2 Anarchy: State should have no authority/rule over the life and behaviour of an individual.
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 | Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America by Louis Adamic
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $9.77 #2
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 | Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.16 # 1 page 1003 of AtD alludes to 'Balkan ghosts.'
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| The Uskoks of Senj: Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic by Catherine Wendy Bracewell
Buy used from: $650.00 # 2
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 | Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Penguin Classics) by Gilles Deleuze
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $11.92 #3 The theme of 'Desire' occurs in both AtD & Anti-Oedipus.
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 | A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $16.87 # 1 (page 485- ) "Riemann spaces are devoid of any kind of homogeneity....an amorphous collection of pieces that are juxtaposed but are not attached to each other." A type of 'Shambhala'--Nomadism. "The nomad, nomad space, is localized and not delimited (382)." "The nomad exists only in becoming" (430).
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 | Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks) by Derek Parfit
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $15.00 # 1 "My brain is divided, and each half is housed in a new body....What we have called 'the two resulting people' are not two people. They are one person. (Parfits' 'Personal Identity')"
"Renfrew and Werfner were one and the same person,...(AtD)"
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 | One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $8.82 # 3
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 | Gilligan's Island - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $29.49 / Used from: $10.00 #1 AtD page 1034: '...like a tall monkey in a sailor hat with the brim turned down fell out of a palm tree onto a very surprised older man--the skipper of some nautical vessel, to judge by the hat he was wearing.'
Essay: http://www.geocities.com/crogar.geo/gilligan.html .
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 | Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $7.08 #2 I came across a blurb saying many of Tesla's publicity photos were actually 'double-exposures.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/science/05tesla.html .
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 | My Inventions The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $6.99 # 1
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 | Angels Don't Play This Haarp: Advances in Tesla Technology by Nick Begich
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.98 # 2 I.G.L.O.O. ~ H.A.A.R.P. !!?? Ionosphere
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 | Tesla: Free Energy The Tunguska Explosion by Oliver Nichelson
# 2 (Tesla~Tunguska connection?) "When I spoke of future warfare....This is not a dream. Even now wireless power plants could be constructed by which any region of the globe might be rendered uninhabitable without subjecting the population of other parts to serious danger or inconvenience (New York Times, April 21, 1908)."
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 | The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland Vol. 1: 1905-1907 by Winsor McCay
Buy used from: $25.00 # 3 Nemo (Latin for no one) falls asleep in his bed and is transported to the fantastical Slumberland--at the request of King Morpheus--where he encounters all kinds of strange creatures. At the end of each trip he wakes up, unsure of what was real and what was a dream....
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 | The Way to Shambhala: A Search for the Mythical Kingdom Beyond the Himalayas by Edwin Bernbaum
Buy used from: $13.47 #2 Perhaps Pynchon read the original: Description of the Way to Shambhala, written by the Third Panchen Lama Palden Yeshe in 1775.
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 | Beasts, Men And Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski
Buy new: $15.58 / Used from: $15.42 # 3 Subterranean kingdom, Jenghiz Kahn
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 | Age of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.85 # 2
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 | Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book) by E.T. Bell
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $2.50 # 1 (page 423- ) Sophia Kovalevskaya=Yashmeen Halfcourt
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 | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.37 # 2 western expansion
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 | The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.29 # 1 Chicago Fair (chapter 22)
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 | The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (American Century) by Alan Trachtenberg
Buy used from: $0.01 # 1 "...foreign inhabitants of the slums also viewed themselves as helpless victoms, degraded by filth and crime, harboring resentment AGAINST THE DAY they might unleash their wrath." "(page 128)
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 | Renegade (aka Blueberry)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.48 # 3 May not be an AtD influence, but every time I think of Frank Traverse, I think of Renegade's Mike Blueberry. I also happen to like this movie alot. "True Shamanyc of Hel"
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 | Optical Calicte "Iceland Spar" Crystal-Brazil
# 1 Iceland spar is what hides the Hidden People, makes it possible for them to move through the world that thinks of itself as 'real,' provides that all-important ninety-degree twist to their light, so they can exist alongside our own world but not be seen.
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 | The Wandering Jew (Complete and Unabridged in One Volume) by Eugene Sue
Buy used from: $49.99 # 1 page 125 Pugnax reads a roman feuilleton by M. Eugene Sue
"The Land's End of Two Worlds; Spies" I'd say there are some parallel themes in TWJ & AtD.
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 | THE WANDERING JEW in 3 Volumes
Chapman & Hall; 1st English edition (1844)
The Guttenberg Project has the complete The Wandering Jew
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 | A New Model of the Universe by P. D. Ouspensky
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $6.94 # 1 CHAPTER 2: "The Fourth Dimension"
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 | The Fourth Dimension by Charles Howard Hinton
Buy new: $24.90 / Used from: $18.68 # 1
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| Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of Charles .H. Hinton by Charles H. Hinton
Buy used from: $5.49 # 1
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| RAUM UND ZEIT. Vortrag, gehalten auf der 80. Natur-Forscher-Versammlung zu Köln am 21. September 1908. Mit dem Bildnis Herman Minkowskis sowie einem vorwort von A. Gutzmer.
# 1 SPACE & TIME "The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."
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 | The Emerald Tablet Of Hermes & The Kybalion: Two Classic Bookson Hermetic Philosophy by Hermes Trismegistus
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $31.36 # 1 "as above, so below."
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 | Joseph Canteloube: Songs Of the Auvergne
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $34.06 # 1
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 | Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $9.50 # 1 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
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 | The Rider Tarot Deck with Other and Booklet by Arthur Edward Waite
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.79 # 1 Pamela Coleman Smith (1878-1951)
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