Paul Jimerson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.” ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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#BraveNewWorld was one of the 1st novels to predict the future existence of genetic engineering, test-tube babies, anti-#depression medication, & virtual reality. When George #Orwell’s 1984 came out a few years later,

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“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women https://t.co/5XgapYoNEa

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#ApocalypseNow was released in 1979, when #Coppola was at height of his Hollywood power. He was inspired by Joseph Conrad’s 1902 “Heart of Darkness,” but set the story during the #Vietnam War. It was a difficult production;

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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” ― Alexander Pope

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Birthday of Barry Lopez, b Port Chester, NY (1945), grew up in S California & New York City. He’s written several books of nonfiction, which often deal with the relationship between human culture and the physical landscape, like Arctic Dreams (1986) and Of Wolves and Men (1978).

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Lynda Barry’s collections of comics and books include Girls & Boys (1981), The Greatest of Marlys (2000/2016), and One! Hundred! Demons! (2002), which Barry calls an “autobiofictionalography.”

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island [image: Mark Rothko] https://t.co/Mpz4FMf0fR

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon… ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray https://t.co/18jhgMyLIW