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D.W. Jacobs
Playwright and director, R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe
Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction by Fred Kaplan Franz Anton Mesmer promised that after you wake up from your trance, you are transformed. The medical establishment rejected his techniques once they became a popular stage act, and it took Freud to pick them back up later under the name 'hypnotism.' But Mesmer influenced many writer-contemporaries who revered the power of imagination. A Christmas Carol follows the classic mystical inward journey: The frozen man is melted down, reformed into a new way of being, and then tempered by fear to make the lesson hold. Bucky Fuller shares the same faith in the internal process, asking us to imagine and create our way out of problems, not just behave our way out."
Larry Schwarz
CEO, Rumpus.com
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss This book is written from Eng's point of view. He was the serious and quiet Siamese twin, while Chang was the obnoxious showman. Chang was also the alcoholic of the two, and they shared a stomach, so Chang would drink and then Eng would throw up. After leaving Siam, they toured with freak shows in Asia and Europe, and then P. T. Barnum brought them to the US as a star sideshow attraction. Being in a startup can suck sometimes, but reading this made me realize how fortunate I am. The people I work with might drive me crazy, but at least we don't share a stomach."
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Bomb Squad
Behind the Green Doerr
Roll Call
Diverting the Audio Stream
Sole of a New Machine
On-Line Skating
(Re)Seeing Digital
ReadMe
Music
The Eyes Have It
Lost in the Scramble
Young, Fast, and Genetically Damaged
Just Outta Beta
Megatuneage
Bloggin' On
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