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The anthropologist of desire. 172 maxims browsable at random, the whole system in three movements, the five novelists who found it first, a lexicon, reader's guides to the two central books, a drill in reading persecution texts, the life, and the objections.

tags: Girard, mimetic desire, scapegoat, violence, the sacred, Christianity, rivalry, anthropology

The Red Room. Two whole books - Room to Dream and Catching the Big Fish - read entire; the sourced quotes; a set of playable meditations; his eccentricities and his weather reports; his Tbilisi interview with Radio Liberty; and seven of his lines given the animation they deserve.

tags: david-lynch, cinema, meditation, transcendental-meditation, twin-peaks, eraserhead, creativity, dreams, consciousness, the-red-room

Dawn over the salt marsh: her ars poetica as a triptych, Wild Geese in flight, an attention practice to go and do, Blackwater Pond to disturb, a field index of her creatures, a prayer built from ordinary things, Percy and the dog songs, the one wild and precious question, the essential poems, her craft lectures, the two rare interviews, and the whole shelf in order.

tags: mary-oliver, poetry, attention, nature, provincetown, devotion, wild-geese, blackwater, dogs, prayer

The happiest man alive - a school of living, drawn from Henry Miller. The whole of The Wisdom of the Heart readable unabridged (17 essays, 82,000 words), plus 448 curated quotes from across his work; the life that earned the persona; an interactive breath, a watercolour, a cosmic eye; and fifteen drills in living fully.

tags: henry miller, vitality, living fully, paris, big sur, the wisdom of the heart, tropic of cancer, art of living, acceptance, bohemian

Pull the lever. The server picks one of the curated geekish feeds at random, fetches it live, and hands back a single post. No recommendation engine. No algorithm. The roll is the recommendation.

tags: rss, blogroll, random, tool, reading