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The Alchemist
Contents International Acclaim for Paulo Coelho’s Foreword Prologue Part One Part Two Epilogue A Preview of Paulo Coelho’s: Warrior of the Light Warrior of the Light: Prologue About the Author Also by Paulo Coelho Back Ads Copyright About the Publisher International Acclaim for Paulo Coelho’s THE ALCHEMIST “The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension, and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it’s full of specific wisdom as well. A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike.” —Publishers Weekly “Beneath this novel’s compelling story and the shimmering elegance with which it’s told lies a bedrock of wisdom about following one’s heart.” —Booklist “As memorable and meaningful as Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.” —Austin American-Statesman “A touching, inspiring fable.” —Indianapolis Star “A little poke in the ribs from on high.” —Detroit Free Press “The Alchemist is a fabulous success.” —Der Spiegel (Germany) “A remarkable tale about the most magical of all journeys: the quest to fulfill one’s destiny. I recommend The Alchemist to anyone who is passionately committed to claiming the life of their dreams—today.” —Anthony Robbins, author of Awaken the Giant Within “An entrepreneurial tale of universal wisdom we can apply to the business of our own lives.” —Spencer Johnson, M.D., author of Who Moved My Cheese “An adventure story full of magic and wisdom.” —Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima “The Alchemist is a beautiful book about magic, dreams, and the treasures we seek elsewhere and then find at our doorstep.” —Madonna in Sonntag Aktuell (Germany) “The Alchemist is an unabashed delight and inspirational wonder. -
The Boreal Borges
Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 2013-05-31 The Boreal Borges Jonathan C. Williams Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Classics Commons, and the Comparative Literature Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Williams, Jonathan C., "The Boreal Borges" (2013). Theses and Dissertations. 3597. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3597 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. The Boreal Borges Jonathan C. Williams A thesis submitted to the faculty of Brigham Young University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Steven Sondrup, Chair David Laraway Larry Peer Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature Brigham Young University June 2013 Copyright © 2013 Jonathan C. Williams All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT The Boreal Borges Jonathan C. Williams Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, BYU Master of Arts Jorge Luis Borges’s story “El Zahir” describes a moment where the protagonist finds rest from his monomania by reworking one of the central texts in Old Germanic myth, the story of Sigurd and Brynhild. The approach taken here by the protagonist is the paradigm used in this thesis for understanding Borges’s own strong readings of Old Germanic literature, specifically Old Scandinavian texts. In chapter one, a brief outline of the myth of Sigurd and Brynhild, with a particular emphasis on Gram, the sword that lied between them, is provided and juxtaposed with Borges’s own family history, focusing on the family’s storied military past. -
Notes for Million Mile Road Trip, December 5, 2016
Rudy Rucker, Notes for Million Mile Road Trip, December 5, 2016. Notes for Million Mile Road Trip Rudy Rucker Copyright © Rudy Rucker 2016 Previous book was Journals 1990-2014. Million Mile Road Trip is book #39 and novel #22. Started these notes on April 4, 2014. Started writing the actual novel on January 5, 2015. Finished the first draft on June 12, 2016, at 116,500 words. Finished the second draft on August 25, 2016, 111,100 words. Notes word count 134,454 This version of the Notes was revised for publication on December 5, 2016. Contents Working Materials .............................................................................................................. 7 To Do .............................................................................................................................. 7 Optional To Do ......................................................................................................... 11 Pitch .............................................................................................................................. 11 Outline .......................................................................................................................... 11 Size, Mode, Format ....................................................................................................... 16 Tracking POVs and Pages per Chapter ..................................................................... 16 Progress Log, with Completion Projections ............................................................. 17 Manuscript -
Borges and I It's Borges, the Other One, That Things Happen To. I Walk Through Buenos Aires and I Pause
Borges And I about at the foot of a statue by his friends' It's Borges, the other one, that things happen impatient knives, discovers among the faces to. I walk through Buenos Aires and I pause— and the blades the face of Marcus Junius mechanically now, perhaps—to gaze at the arch Brutus, his ward, perhaps his very son—and so of an entryway and its inner door; news of Caesar stops defending himself, and cries out Et Borges reaches me by mail, or I see his name on tu, Brute? Shakespeare and Quevedo record a list of academics or in some biographical that pathetic cry. dictionary. My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the Fate is partial to repetitions, variations, taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis symmetries. Nineteen centuries later, in the Stevenson; Borges shares those preferences, but southern part of the province of Buenos Aires, a in a vain sort of way that turns them into the gaucho is set upon by other gauchos, and as he accoutrements of an actor. It would be an falls he recognizes a godson of his, and says to exaggeration to say that our relationship is him in gentle remonstrance and slow surprise hostile—I live, I allow myself to live, so that (these words must be heard, not read): Pero, Borges can spin out his literature, and that ¡che! Heches, but he does not know that he has literature is my justification. I willingly admit died so that a scene can be played out again. -
Idealism in Two Stories from the Book of Sand
Jon Stewart Idealism in Two Stories from The Book of Sand everal recent studies on Borges have explored the many philoso- phical motifs that he employs in his short stories.1 This philoso- S phical reading seems to be justified by a number of Borges’ own statements about both his biography and his work. For example, in the Preface to The Gold of the Tigers (1972), he refers to his “philosophical preoccupation” which he says “has been with [him] since [his] child- hood.”2 Not only does he frequently mention specific philosophers and philosophical doctrines, but he also exploits such doctrines in the ac- tual content of the stories themselves, in this way making use of phi- losophical ideas in otherwise literary texts. Thus, while some, indeed perhaps most, readers see his stories merely as examples of a fiction of fantasy, others see them as thought experiments based on philosophi- cal premises. It is well known that one of Borges’ favorite philosophical theories is that of idealism. That Borges is favorably disposed towards idealism in general is evidenced by the two articles combined under the title “New Refutation of Time” in Other Inquisitions (1952). These articles treat the philosophical issue of time by employing even more radical arguments for idealism than the standard refutations of materialism by Berkeley and Hume. Moreover, among the philosophers most frequently re- ferred to by Borges are the idealists Plato, Berkeley and Schopenhauer. In the present essay, I wish to explore the stories “The Mirror and the Mask” and “Undr” from Borges’ late collection of short stories The Book of Sand (1975).3 I would like to argue that both stories represent an ar- 1 Cf. -
Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
FICCIONES Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Andrew Hurley ALLEN LANE THE PENGUIN PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Contents A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY (1935) Preface to the First Edition Preface to the 1954 Edition The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro The Widow Ching—Pirate Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette --- Kôtsukéno Suké Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv Man on Pink Corner Etcetera Index of Sources FICTIONS (1944) THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (1941) Foreword Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote The Circular Ruins The Lottery in Babylon A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain The Library of Babel The Garden of Forking Paths ARTIFICES (1944) Foreword Funes, His Memory The Shape of the Sword The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero Death and the Compass The Secret Miracle Three Versions of Judas The End The Cult of the Phoenix The South THE ALEPH (1949) The Immortal The Dead Man The Theologians Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) Emma Zunz The House of Asterion The Other Death Deutsches Requiem Averroës' Search Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths The Wait The Man on the Threshold The Aleph Afterword THE MAKER (1960) Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones The Maker Dreamtigers A Dialog About a Dialog Toenails Covered Mirrors Argumentum Ornithologicum The Captive The Mountebank Delia Elena San Marco A Dialog Between Dead Men The Plot A Problem The Yellow Rose The Witness Martín Fierro Mutations Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote Paradiso, XXXI, 108 Parable of the Palace Everything and Nothing Ragnarök Inferno, 1, 3 Borges and I MUSEUM On Exactitude in Science In Memoriam, J.F.K. -
Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
FICCIONES Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Andrew Hurley ALLEN LANE THE PENGUIN PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Contents A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY (1935) Preface to the First Edition Preface to the 1954 Edition The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro The Widow Ching—Pirate Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette --- Kôtsukéno Suké Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv Man on Pink Corner Etcetera Index of Sources FICTIONS (1944) THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (1941) Foreword Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote The Circular Ruins The Lottery in Babylon A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain The Library of Babel The Garden of Forking Paths ARTIFICES (1944) Foreword Funes, His Memory The Shape of the Sword The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero Death and the Compass The Secret Miracle Three Versions of Judas The End The Cult of the Phoenix The South THE ALEPH (1949) The Immortal The Dead Man The Theologians Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) Emma Zunz The House of Asterion The Other Death Deutsches Requiem Averroës' Search Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths The Wait The Man on the Threshold The Aleph Afterword THE MAKER (1960) Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones The Maker Dreamtigers A Dialog About a Dialog Toenails Covered Mirrors Argumentum Ornithologicum The Captive The Mountebank Delia Elena San Marco A Dialog Between Dead Men The Plot A Problem The Yellow Rose The Witness Martín Fierro Mutations Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote Paradiso, XXXI, 108 Parable of the Palace Everything and Nothing Ragnarök Inferno, 1, 3 Borges and I MUSEUM On Exactitude in Science In Memoriam, J.F.K. -
The New Physics of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 10-2014 All At One Point: The New Physics of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges Mark Thomas Rinaldi Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/373 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] ALL AT ONE POINT: THE NEW PHYSICS OF ITALO CALVINO AND JORGE LUIS BORGES Mark T. Rinaldi A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, THE CITY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 2014 © Copyright by Mark T. Rinaldi, 2014. All rights reserved. ii This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dr. Giancarlo Lombardi, Chair of Examining Committte Dr. Giancarlo Lombardi, Executive Officer August 25, 2014 Dr. Giancarlo Lombardi Dr. Monica Calabritto Dr. Lía Schwartz Supervisory Committee THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii Abstract ALL AT ONE POINT: THE NEW PHYSICS OF ITALO CALVINO AND JORGE LUIS BORGES By: Mark T. Rinaldi Adviser: Dr. Giancarlo Lombardi This work of comparative literary criticism focuses on the presence of mathematical and scientific concepts and imagery in the works of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, beginning with an historical overview of scientific philosophy and an introduction to the most significant scientific concepts of the last several centuries, before shifting to deep, scientifically-driven analyses of numerous individual fictions, and finally concluding with a meditation on the unexpectedly fictive aspects of science and mathematics. -
Configurative Rhetoric
CONFIGURATIVE RHETORIC: THE ROLE OF AESTHETIC DESIGN IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION BY AMY DOLORES DALZELL, MAIS A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School in partial fulfillment o f the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major Subject: RHETORIC AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico August 2014 Copyright 2014 by Amy Dolores Dalzell UMI Number: 3582401 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Di!ss0?t&iori Publishing UMI 3582401 Published by ProQuest LLC 2015. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 “Configurative Rhetoric: The Role of Aesthetic Design in Professional Communication,” a dissertation prepared by Amy Dolores Dalzell in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Doctor o f Philosophy, has been approved by the following: Loui Reyes Dean ad interim Graduate School Monica Torres Chair of Examining Committee C 7/ Date Committee in Charge: Dr. Monica Torres, Chair Dr. Christopher Burnham Dr. Jennifer Sheppard Dr. Stephanie Taylor DEDICATION the memory of C. H. Imera, my mentor in both aesthetics and academics. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My first acknowledgement would be not so much of a ‘whom’ as a ‘where.’ Growing up outside of New York City, beginning from the age of about three, I commuted into the city with my father, and spent my formative years in screening and editing rooms, surrounded by carpeted walls and six-foot projectors hidden behind interior windows, in places like Magno Sound and Paul Killiam Studios.