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Give International Authors for the Holidays: Annual Appeal

In order to keep International Authors moving, we need to sell books.  Although we are not averse to making a profit, at this stage in the evolution of the consortium a "healthy" revenue stream will suffice. This holiday season, please consider purchasing International Authors publications for family, friends and colleagues.  Also, consider purchasing books to donate to your local public and academic libraries. All royalties from the sales of our titles go to authors or back into the enterprise. 

Please click HERE for our list. Each description is linked to the respective Amazon sales pages.

 

"Open Country Joy"

There's no place like home for the holidays...

John Glenn (1921-2016)

“If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest."

            --John Glenn

Highbrow Advice from Mr. Rogers

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Emanations available through Jayde Design

Emanations, International Authors' annual anthology of fiction, poetry and essays, is now available through Jayde Design.

Please click HERE to view the Emanations page.

Please click HERE to view the homepage.  Jayde Design features a range of hard-to-find and collectable titles. Highly recommended.

More Brain Bugs in the News

Fine art is one thing, but what Highbrow is really about is brain bugs and their activities.  Recently, as reported here, famed brain bug Jack Ma had some useful things to say about globalization.

Now adding to the Highbrow roster of brain bugs is his excellency Agustin Carstens, who has just resigned his post as Central Bank Chief in Mexico.  I think I speak for brain bugs and highbrows world-wide when I say that Agustin will be missed, and let's hope he soon finds another job so we might continue to follow his work and learn more about brain bugs, their natural history, and the wonderful things they do.

Agustin Carstens, former Chief, Mexico Central Bank

Brain Bug from the planet Klendathu, seen here in conference with Earth scientists

John Dugdale Bradley of Milton's Cottage to visit the WAH Center

Noted:

John Dugdale Bradley, Trustee of Milton’s Cottage Trust, Buckinghamshire, England, has been  invited to speak at the Milton Society of America's annual dinner in Philadelphia on 7th January 2017 to launch the Paradise Maintain’d Endowment Fund. This effort seeks to raise endowment funds of $5,000,000 over the next two years to sustain Milton's Cottage.

The Yuko Nii Foundation will also be seeking funds in 2017 to build an elevator to the Mansard roof area where the permanent collection is kept. Among the holdings is the Milton Collection of historical art and artifacts. The forward room of the Mansard roof has beautiful views from windows that oversee the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines.

John will be at the WAH Center January 9th at 11 A.M. to meet with Yuko Nii and Terrance Lindall to discuss where they can mutually take their common interest in the perpetuation of the Milton Legacy. Terrance believes that efforts in 2017 celebrating the 350th anniversary of the publishing of Paradise Lost can successfully launch this fundraising campaign for both institutions. 

The fundraising campaign could be high profile and promote not only Milton's legacy but the study of humanities in general. In 2008 Yuko Nii and Terrance Lindall hosted a celebration for Milton's 400th birthday.

Some of the Yuko Nii Foundation's Milton collection will be on display on January 9th for John's visit. After a tour of the building, a light luncheon will be served in the grand reception hall around 12 noon.

Those interested in helping with this exciting fundraising campaign should contact Terrance Lindall: milton@wahcenter.net

Milton dictating PL, collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation

The Mayflower Compact

The original document has been lost. William Bradford recorded several versions.  Here is one of those,  rendered (somewhat) in modern English:

In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.

Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1899

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Talkin' to Squares, a Primer

Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!

Analysis of messes: "A Mess"

     A Mess

Making messes
Cleaning up messes
Moving from one mess to another
Talking about messes
Finding messes
Avoiding messes
Buying messes
Selling messes
Hearing about messes
Regretting messes
Laughing at other people's messes
Wondering about messes
Making more messes
Discovering you've made a mess previously not seen as a mess
Watching something turn into a mess
Watching a mess turn into something
Messing around
Letting people know they better not mess around with you
Messing around with other people
Dealing with people who are messes
Stepping into a mess
Learning from messes
Learning from other people's messes
Not learning from messes: yours or another's
Seeing messes for what they are
Avoiding more messes
Reminiscing with an old mess
Enjoying messes
Writing poems about messes
Not having anything more to say about messes
Having more to say about messes
Pronouncing the last word on messes

"Krishna" by Nicholas Roerich

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Edwin Austin Abbey, "King Lear, Act I, Scene I"

Don't throw your vote away. Vote for no. 2!

The Computation of Bowling Scores: a Mathematical Progression or Sequence?

Ontario Power Generating Station, 1912

Imperial German Navy's First and Second Battleship Squadrons and Small Cruiser Squadron in Kiel Harbor (circa 1905-8?)

Butterworth in Berlin

I recently learned Michael Butterworth will be in Berlin this Saturday, 5 November, 8 pm at the Posh Teckel bar in Neukölln, to discuss his new book, The Blue Monday Diaries.  To view the announcement for the event, please click HERE.

Dave Jenning's review of the book can be viewed HERE.

To view the Amazon description and purchase the book, please click HERE.

My musical tastes range from Beethoven quartets to free-form avant-garde "highbrow" jazz, and thus, from what I see here, I am a bit circumspect about New Order and their scene. I am very interested, however, in Mr. Butterworth's poetry and fiction; and his wide-ranging publishing projects--always unique and often ingenious--represent material for continual investigation and reflection.  I am curious, therefore, to read this new book and see what kind of light he throws upon our understanding of this sector of popular culture, which, in the case of New Order, suggests the fascinating phenomenon of young people not fully aware of what they are doing in "the arts", and yet nevertheless succeeding--and what ever that "success" might mean.  These are important questions, and I am confident that when it comes to engaging such issues Michael Butterworth's new book is absolutely candid and fully delivers.