The Lark, the Lemming, and the Owl

Friday, December 21, 2012

The following links correspond to the subscripts in the text.

(Scroll down for subscripts; bibliography @ bottom)

Words, words, words. They are the skin of a living thought.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

To order: http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=55347

To comment: http://larklemmingblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/traipse-through-perspicuity.html

OMG! Check out The God Theory by Bernard Haisch. He's smarter; I'm funner. We espouse similar stuff, he also uses bunches of first person singular, and we published within a month of each other.

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With gratitude to ChainLetters.net (edited, slightly)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin_Laszlo

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/science/03teleportation.html?th&emc=th

http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html

http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_014/targ.htm

1.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-jAImScms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger

http://www.paripublishing.com/books/pathwaysofchance/

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcriptNOW204_full.html

http://www.protolink.com/MexicanFisherman.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/18/60minutes/main681558.shtml

http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0805073396/ref=sib_rdr_fc/104-8599941-2891140?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S001&j=0#reader-page

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0805079882/ref=sib_dp_pop_sup?ie=UTF8&p=random#reader-link

http://www.g-r-e-e-d.com/GREED.htm

http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/gen001.htm

http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/gen003.htm

http://blog.austindefense.com/2008/02/articles/war-on-drugs/william-f-buckley-the-war-on-drugs-is-lost/

http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAbuse.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14kristof.html?th&emc=th

http://www.quangduc.com/English/basic/44nirvana.html

http://www.solbaram.org/articles/origin.html

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=1576753018

http://www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/Misc/boat.html

17.2

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/science/24women.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=36395fb5b7dea2ff&hp=&ex=1106629200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=&oref=slogin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skene's_gland

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1032301-2,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09tier.html?th&emc=th

And another related tangent:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20dowd.html?th&emc=th

http://web2.acbl.org/as400/mpraces/mpAwards/lifetime/top200.htm

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553375407/ref=pd_sim_b_1/002-5579426-7468844?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

21.2

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/02/17/pelosis-film-right-america-gets-it-right/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gx2nA2ljcY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJhzXIZvDX4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwfDUBhvJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3oemhQ1LjI&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLPLO90fSk

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/08/int04044.html

27.2

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brandon-friedman/election-data-military-co_b_143621.html

Can't help myself. Check out this goofy video showing off the F-35 (mentioned in footnote two pages earlier). http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/5/f-35-jet-725309.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/003.html

http://www.zambiatourism.com/travel/places/victoria.htm

and a human take of "Africa" -- http://videos.komando.com/2009/06/18/african-thunderstorm/

http://www.biz2web.com/grant/panama.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/050622_highway_safety.html

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question477.htm

http://www.virginislandsmap.com/normanisland/index.html

http://www.sfdj.com/sand/freedive.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing

37.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkRpyRn6xM

http://www.uiowa.edu/~sail/skills/racing_basics/chap3.shtml#cont_starting

http://www.hobiecat.com/sailing/models_trifoiler.html

http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=dbe70e3fd9e769ca94cbf907ffa768bd&p=17161#post17161

http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ga2.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5D71F38F933A2575AC0A964958260

http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/facts/hole.html

http://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/mcmurdo/mcmurdo_base_antarctica.htm

44.1

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/environment/2008-07-06-ewaste-recycling_N.htm

Michael Moore must've read this far:

http://www.capitalismalovestory.com/

44.2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

Okay, okay. I can't stand it any longer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)

And I'm not the only ranter on zero = infinity (Google this equation if you require more):

http://www.organicmechanic.org/2004/06/infinity-equals-zero/

http://everythingforever.com/st_math.htm

Then a senior Zen Buddist priest reflects upon time:

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/for-the-time-being/?ref=opinion&8ty&emc=ty

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PrintHT/Zero.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots#Exponential_identity

A recent NY Times essay has this to say about circles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/science/08angier.html?pagewanted=2&th&emc=th

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_(number)

http://discovermagazine.com/2006/oct/jarons-world-raft-future

http://science.discovery.com/videos/time-special-relativity.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mnT8iVTjxU

Or a 44 minute video delving into time travel:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8242243689164201392

46.2

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/300-399/nb333.htm

47.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5wl9RHqqQ

47.4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston

http://climb.mountainzone.com/everest/2002/html/dispatch_0505_brown.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/longs-peak

Of course, here's the real reason to hike up mountains:

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150959/charleston-peak.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_oneness

51.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVgNroeafo

51.4

http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight/most-hated-foods?icid=200100397x1214025308x1200914188

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms

Food for thought, at the other end of the spectrum, highlighting the symbiosis of the universe:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/a-gazillion-tiny-avatars/?8ty&emc=ty

http://www.christiankeys.ca/DoesGodExist5.html#antimatter

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=448934&page=5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Caulfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow’s_hierarchy_of_needs

56.2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism

http://www.beyondourdifferences.com/

And here's discussion about the life force of plants:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?th&emc=th

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9131.htm

http://www.bartleby.com/68/59/3259.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_the_other_cheek

http://alignment2012.com/historychannel.html

http://www.ship.edu/%7Ecgboeree/buddhawise.html

http://homepage.mac.com/ruske/ruske/finaltheory.html

62.2

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/key

http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/secret_societies/

But NBC offered this on 10-15-09 (note references to the power of the human mind):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33280724/ns/dateline_nbc-newsmakers/

http://www.pbs.org/previews/storyof1/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_and_Explicate_Order_according_to_David_Bohm

http://www.ksharpe.com/Word/CO11.htm

Then there's this thorny thesis thwarting that thinking thing: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/your-move-the-maze-of-free-will/?ref=opinion&nl=opinion&emc=tya3

http://www.amazon.com/God-Speed-Light-Lee-Baumann/dp/0876044399

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0679723005/ref=sib_dp_pop_sup?ie=UTF8&p=random#reader-link

68.2

Page 182, last paragraph: the work camp was in Aachen, Germany, where two decades later, I performed with that youth chorale (see Music chapter). Nadia's also-captive husband-to-be was Polish. Sooner or later, I get it right.

Page 183, first line: Dad led prayer groups... I'd like to blame the voice recognition, but it's really the responsibility of the chief proofreader. Moi.

Slightly embarrassing flaws crop up throughout. One relatively benign example: my random capping regimen of subtitles. I know you can tolerate these gaffs.

Page 408, line 12, should read: 8³

Page 447: that certainly is a special comma in the third paragraph.

Page 462, bottom of 4th paragraph should read: ... as grim as ...

Page 475, line 5: PERHAPS the hyphen should be placed between the "o" and the "j". But I've chosen to let it stand as a tribute to the multifariousness of my message.

Middle of page 481, that 56 should be a subscript.

In the footnote of page 550, I refer to the "next" chapter. It should actually be the "final" chapter, specifically the last three lines of page 573.

How immeasurably, charitable, & inspiration got past the spell check on page 556, I dunno.

If so inclined, please let me know of other typographical indiscretions at http://larklemmingblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/traipse-through-perspicuity.html

It has come to my attention that my friends in India (and perhaps other places about this earth) might be concerned about my usage of "asshole buddy" in the text. No reference or inference is intended regarding anything sexual or actually relating to the anus. I particularly enjoy relationships with a handfull of folks. Some are dear family members, some are close friends, but only a small number rank at the top. They are my asshole buddies. It's an American (possibly British, Canadian, Australian, etc.) figure of speech. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0402A&L=ads-l&P=17156 It's easy to see how the phrase could be interpreted in other fashions.

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Targ, Russell. Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2004.

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# posted by Jeff Young @ 11:11 AM

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(Scroll down for subscripts; bibliography @ bottom)

Words, words, words. They are the skin of a living thought.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

To order: http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=55347

To comment: http://larklemmingblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/traipse-through-perspicuity.html

OMG! Check out The God Theory by Bernard Haisch. He's smarter; I'm funner. We espouse similar stuff, he also uses bunches of first person singular, and we published within a month of each other. While you're at it, grab Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life. If only I...

Then there's GOD According to God (Gerald L. Schroeder). "It's not a question of consciousness arising from matter. It is rather quite the opposite, of matter arising from consciousness."

Morgan Freeman says it all, here: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/curiosity-do-parallel-universes-exist.html#mkcpgn=snag1

Did you catch this?

http://billmoyers.com/segment/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality/

The book Winner Take All Politics describes our present condition in the US; my book focuses upon the essence of the final 30 seconds of the Moyers interview with these authors.

WE CAN OVERCOME, if we put our mind and hearts to it.

The task of undoing our ignorance, greed, and slothfulness won't be easy. But the initial process itself is. Vote in legislators who actually care for and work for ALL their constituents, instead of just the powerful (read wealthy) who pander to our weaknesses and get us to eschew our interests.

Not an easy task for the masses. To wit: I vehemently espouse this, yet continue to make a mess of my life. So is my "Let's rally to ameliorate our collective condition" a wet noodle without teeth, or merely symptomatic of humanity's inertia?

DO WHAT I SAY, NOT WHAT I DO.

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With gratitude to ChainLetters.net (edited, slightly)

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

Woe be to my stalwart readers who pour over my literal onomatopoeia. The survivors, those who fail to put the book down, will embroil themselves in circuitous adventures, jumbled time lines, sporadic pontifications, and incessant ramblings about me me me (and an occasional thee) which do not an engaging read make.

Was it ever represented otherwise? The cover, depicting a loon, says it in spades. But is humanity all that different? Interacting with universal forces cavorting about, we blithely careen through life. Lessons to learn abound; we remember and we forget.

Will we ever grok that the universe reflects upon itself through us?

Would readers struggle to get past my rambling? Would my prissy ego-maniacal prose prove valuable and effective? Would a (the?) thread be recognizable as representative of humanity's path? Clearly, and generally, NOT.

Were it not for my vanity, aggrandizement, and penchant for the unconventional blended with the prosaic, my sentiments might well have traction. Oh well, I have done my best…

Wake up and smell the roses, people. We’re in deep shit, yet opportunities abound. Perhaps never before has mankind been so much at the wheel of its destiny, manifesting as a clueless, reckless driver.

While the script appears to be all about the author, hopefully you realize that he merely serves as a mannequin to be scrutinized. A sample template of the grand picture, the way we are. The fourth wall is not opaque.

Whatever. You may, or may not, agree that humankind has choices re the selection of its future. But you certainly won't want to follow the blind, dumb, self-centered path of this author.

Well, at least I gave it this shot. My job has been to observe, participate, and relate. The rest is up to you.

In short (so uncharacteristically moi), the rambling vanity of this author, mostly thinking and being from the perspective inside his own skin, not so much connected to the universe, totally represents humankind's shortsightedness about our nature as a creative cause. Yet we can (and should?) appreciate that our trials, tribulations, and triumphs contribute well as we go to God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin_Laszlo

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/science/03teleportation.html?th&emc=th

http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html

http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_014/targ.htm

1.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-jAImScms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger

http://www.paripublishing.com/books/pathwaysofchance/

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcriptNOW204_full.html

http://www.protolink.com/MexicanFisherman.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/18/60minutes/main681558.shtml

http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0805073396/ref=sib_rdr_fc/104-8599941-2891140?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S001&j=0#reader-page

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0805079882/ref=sib_dp_pop_sup?ie=UTF8&p=random#reader-link

http://www.g-r-e-e-d.com/GREED.htm

http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/gen001.htm

http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/gen003.htm

http://blog.austindefense.com/2008/02/articles/war-on-drugs/william-f-buckley-the-war-on-drugs-is-lost/

http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAbuse.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14kristof.html?th&emc=th

http://www.quangduc.com/English/basic/44nirvana.html

http://www.solbaram.org/articles/origin.html

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=1576753018

http://www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/Misc/boat.html

17.2

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/science/24women.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=36395fb5b7dea2ff&hp=&ex=1106629200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=&oref=slogin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skene's_gland

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1032301-2,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09tier.html?th&emc=th

And another related tangent:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20dowd.html?th&emc=th

http://web2.acbl.org/as400/mpraces/mpAwards/lifetime/top200.htm

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553375407/ref=pd_sim_b_1/002-5579426-7468844?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

21.2

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/02/17/pelosis-film-right-america-gets-it-right/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gx2nA2ljcY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJhzXIZvDX4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwfDUBhvJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3oemhQ1LjI&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLPLO90fSk

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/08/int04044.html

About two-thirds down the first page, the interviewer comments:

"As the Republicans implement economic policies that hurt these people – this is at the heart of your book – they continue to vote for them."

To some degree, we are all Kansans. LLO confirms that I fit the mold. While fully capable of shaping my destiny, I seem to go out of my way to muck up my life. Most humans share this propensity, to some degree. Americans head the list, often seemingly preferring to elect legislators who ultimately work against their best interests. Will HH ever kick in?

27.2

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brandon-friedman/election-data-military-co_b_143621.html

Can't help myself. Check out this goofy video showing off the F-35 (mentioned in footnote two pages earlier). http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/5/f-35-jet-725309.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/003.html

http://www.zambiatourism.com/travel/places/victoria.htm

and a human take of "Africa" -- http://videos.komando.com/2009/06/18/african-thunderstorm/

http://www.biz2web.com/grant/panama.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/050622_highway_safety.html

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question477.htm

http://www.virginislandsmap.com/normanisland/index.html

http://www.sfdj.com/sand/freedive.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing

37.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkRpyRn6xM

http://www.uiowa.edu/~sail/skills/racing_basics/chap3.shtml#cont_starting

http://www.hobiecat.com/sailing/models_trifoiler.html

http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=dbe70e3fd9e769ca94cbf907ffa768bd&p=17161#post17161

http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ga2.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5D71F38F933A2575AC0A964958260

http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/facts/hole.html

http://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/mcmurdo/mcmurdo_base_antarctica.htm

44.1

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/environment/2008-07-06-ewaste-recycling_N.htm

Michael Moore must've read this far:

http://www.capitalismalovestory.com/

44.2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

Okay, okay. I can't stand it any longer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)

And I'm not the only ranter on zero = infinity (Google this equation if you require more):

http://www.organicmechanic.org/2004/06/infinity-equals-zero/

http://everythingforever.com/st_math.htm

Then a senior Zen Buddist priest reflects upon time:

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/for-the-time-being/?ref=opinion&8ty&emc=ty

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PrintHT/Zero.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots#Exponential_identity

A recent NY Times essay has this to say about circles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/science/08angier.html?pagewanted=2&th&emc=th

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_(number)

http://discovermagazine.com/2006/oct/jarons-world-raft-future

http://science.discovery.com/videos/time-special-relativity.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mnT8iVTjxU

Or a 44 minute video delving into time travel:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8242243689164201392

46.2

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/300-399/nb333.htm

And check out new evidence pointing to just how close humans and dogs are: http://watchdocumentary.com/watch/dogs-decoded-video_f381bb3ba.html#.Tp7iFN4UqdA

47.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5wl9RHqqQ

47.4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston

http://climb.mountainzone.com/everest/2002/html/dispatch_0505_brown.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/longs-peak

Of course, here's the real reason to hike up mountains:

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150959/charleston-peak.html

And I've been to the top of 10 of the 28 most prominent in the lower 48 (smell me), although 3 were by car. (For a little topog of that death-defying Mt Evans hike/bike ride: http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=5676 )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_oneness

51.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVgNroeafo

51.4

http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight/most-hated-foods?icid=200100397x1214025308x1200914188

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms

Food for thought, at the other end of the spectrum, highlighting the symbiosis of the universe:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/a-gazillion-tiny-avatars/?8ty&emc=ty

http://www.christiankeys.ca/DoesGodExist5.html#antimatter

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=448934&page=5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Caulfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow’s_hierarchy_of_needs

56.2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism

http://www.beyondourdifferences.com/

And here's discussion about the life force of plants:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?th&emc=th

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9131.htm

It's now DOA. Oh well, URL's needn't last forever. http://www.bartleby.com/68/59/3259.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_the_other_cheek

http://alignment2012.com/historychannel.html

http://www.ship.edu/%7Ecgboeree/buddhawise.html

http://homepage.mac.com/ruske/ruske/finaltheory.html

62.2

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/key

http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/secret_societies/

But NBC offered this on 10-15-09 (note references to the power of the human mind):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33280724/ns/dateline_nbc-newsmakers/

http://www.pbs.org/previews/storyof1/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_and_Explicate_Order_according_to_David_Bohm

http://www.ksharpe.com/Word/CO11.htm

Then there's this thorny thesis thwarting that thinking thing:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/your-move-the-maze-of-free-will/?ref=opinion&nl=opinion&emc=tya3

http://www.amazon.com/God-Speed-Light-Lee-Baumann/dp/0876044399

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0679723005/ref=sib_dp_pop_sup?ie=UTF8&p=random#reader-link

68.2

Slightly embarrassing flaws crop up throughout. One relatively benign example: my random capping regimen of subtitles. I know you can tolerate these gaffs.

Page 76, last paragraph, should be: glance to my right.

Page 182, last paragraph: the work camp was in Aachen, Germany (not Poland), where two decades later, I performed with that youth chorale (see Music chapter). Nadia's also-captive husband-to-be was Polish. Sooner or later, I get it right.

Page 183, first line: Dad led prayer groups... I'd like to blame the voice recognition, but it's really the responsibility of the chief proofreader: moi.

Page 301: Where do all those commas come from? Please imagine the one after second (fourth line from the bottom) not being there. I promise to never ever over-use commas from now on.

Yeah, right.

Page 315: subsequent efforts on my part to verify the veracity of that German mini-sub narrative have failed. Great story, in any event.

Page 330: Ok, ok. I thought I be cool at the bottom of the third paragraph. Make that knock your socks off, if you insist. But you should still check out that subscript 39.

Page 408, line 12, should read: 8^{3 (Not that you really care, since you probably skipped over those two paragraphs, anyway.)}

Page 447: that certainly is a special comma in the third paragraph.

Page 462, 4th paragraph, should read: ... overnight... (second line) and ... as grim as ... (bottom line).

Page 475, line 5: PERHAPS the hyphen should be placed between the "o" and the "j". But I've chosen to let it stand as a tribute to the multifariousness of my message.

Middle of page 481: that 56 should be a subscript.

Page 528, third paragraph: you may prefer the verb come. But my "glorious observations and wise commentary" is a singularity in this instance; goes with my wonderful swampland for sale...

Page 548, last paragraph: PERHAPS the tense should suggest an ongoing process. I.e., God opens His cosmos to us as we become equipped to deal. (I'll leave this detail up to the reader.)

Page 550, footnote: I refer to the next chapter. It should actually be the final chapter, specifically the last three lines of page 573.

Page 551, fourth paragraph: I treat "grit and smell" as a singularity. However, some critics suggest that I might have "them" permeate the roadway. Details, details.

Page 556: How immeasurably, charitable, & inspiration got past the spell check, I dunno. Perhaps after 555 pages, the software became overwhelmed...

If so inclined, please point out other typographical and factual indiscretions at http://larklemmingblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/traipse-through-perspicuity.html

It has come to my attention that my friends in India (and perhaps other places about this earth) might be concerned about my usage of "asshole buddy" in the text. No reference or inference is intended regarding anything sexual or actually relating to the anus. I particularly enjoy relationships with a handfull of folks. Some are dear family members, some are close friends, but only a small number rank at the top. These are my asshole buddies, to utilize a questionable American (possibly British, Canadian, Australian, etc.) figure of speech. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0402A&L=ads-l&P=17156 It's easy to see how the phrase could be interpreted in other fashions.

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