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A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
#276. WHERE YOU ARE. Andrew Ziminski’s Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles is a nice, knowing and readable book for anyone who cares for the topic. It would fit very nicely in a pile with Robert McFarlane’s Landmarks , his book on the vanishing dialect vocabulary of the British earthscape, Patrick de Rynck’s How to Read A Painting: Lessons from the Old Masters , for the many young people who grow up without knowing the classical and B
