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<div align="center"><h1>Books, Books, and more Books!</h1></div>

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<em>If one happens to be living in an Empire,</em><br />
<em>It is best to seek a quiet seaside home.</em><br />
-- Joseph Brodsky (my translation)  
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<h2>Books that I like (a few of the many):</h2>

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<li>Isaac Asimov's &quot;The Last Question&quot; and &quot;The Bicentennial Man&quot;</li>

<li>Samuel Beckett's <cite>Waiting For Godot</cite></li>

<li>Ray Bradbury's <cite>Fahrenheit 451</cite></li>

<li>Mikhail Bulgakov's <cite>The Master and Margarita</cite></li>

<li>Richard Feynman's <cite>The Meaning of It All</cite></li>

<li>Herman Hesse's <cite>Narcissus and Goldmund</cite></li>

<li>Douglas Hofstadter's <cite>G&ouml;del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal
Golden Braid</cite></li>

<li>Herman Melville's <cite>Moby Dick</cite></li>

<li>Vladimir Nabokov's <cite>Lolita</cite></li>

<li>Plutarch's <cite><a class="external"
href="http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plutarch.html">Parallel
Lives</a></cite></li>

<li>A lot of Alexander Pushkin's poetry</li>

<li>Jonathan Swift's essay <a class="internal"
href="modest.shtml">&quot;A Modest Proposal&quot;</a></li>

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<h2>Literature resources online:</h2>

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<li><a class="external"
href="http://the-tech.mit.edu:80/Shakespeare/works.html">The complete
works of William Shakespeare</a></li>

<li><a class="external"
href="http://the-tech.mit.edu:80/Classics/index.html">The Classics
Archive</a></li>

<li><a class="external" href="http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/">The Songs
Page</a> has a large number of poems that have been made into songs,
indexed by poet, composer, and first line or title.  Foreign-language
poems are given in the original language, with a choice of
transliteration or non-ISO-8859-1 encoding.</li>
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