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- From: msmorris@watsci.UWaterloo.ca (Mike Morris)
- Subject: Christmas Wish Fulfillment
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:57:48 GMT
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- Tuesday, the 22nd of December, 1992
-
- Martha usually avoids getting me books for Christmas. Because I
- buy them anyway, or because she'll claim (exasperatedly) she doesn't
- know what we have. Anyway, it means that when we were just down to
- Indianapolis for a quarterly board meeting (the family business---don't
- know what it says about The Economy, but it's the first time
- we've managed a Christmas bonus in three, four years) and a short
- visit with family, I managed to hit Borders twice. Here's what I got:
-
- _Autobiography_, J.S. Mill
- _Shih-Ching: The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius_, tr. by
- Ezra Pound
- _Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus_, R.M. Rilke, tr. by
- A. Poulin, Jr.
- _The Book of Images_, R.M. Rilke, tr. by Edward Snow
- _Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays_, Michael Oakeshott
- _The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an
- Ancient Greek Warship_, J.S. Morrison and J.F. Coates
- _Ancient Mystery Cults_, Walter Burkert
- _Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial
- Ritual and Myth_, Walter Burkert
- _Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist_, Walter Kaufmann
- _The Aeneid of Virgil_, tr. Allen Mandelbaum
- _An Autobiographical Study_, Sigmund Freud
- _Beyond the Pleasure Principle_, Sigmund Freud
- _Civilization and its Discontents_, Sigmund Freud
- _The Ego and the Id_, Sigmund Freud
- _Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis_, Sigmund Freud
- _The Future of an Illusion_, Sigmund Freud
- _Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego_, Sigmund Freud
- _Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety_, Sigmund Freud
- _Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis_, Sigmund Freud
- _Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious_, Sigmund Freud
- _Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood_, Sigmund Freud
- _On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement_, Sigmund Freud
- _An Outline of Psychoanalysis_, Sigmund Freud
- _The Psychopathology of Everyday Life_, Sigmund Freud
- _The Question of Lay Analysis_, Sigmund Freud
- _Totem and Taboo_, Sigmund Freud
- _The Interpretation of Dreams_, Sigmund Freud
- _Early Psychoanalytic Writings_, Sigmund Freud
- _Moses and Monotheism_, Sigmund Freud
- _Strong Poison_, Dorothy L. Sayers
- _Have His Carcase_, Dorothy L. Sayers
- _Gaudy Night_, Dorothy L. Sayers
- _Busman's Honetmoon_, Dorothy L. Sayers
- _Otto of the Silver Hand_, Howard Pyle
- _The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions_, Howard Pyle
- _The Story of Kind Arthur and His Knights_, Howard Pyle
- _The Wind in the Willows_, Kenneth Grahame, ill. by Ernest H. Shepard
-
- There were also some more nondescript children's books---mostly Thomas
- the Tank Engine, but also a Disney _Aladdin_---, and some Wee Sing tapes.
-
- The Pound I was glad of, because I just finished both his and
- Arthur Waley's translations of Confucius. I've been reading lots
- of Rilke this year, and Poulin counts as yet another translator.
- The Snow-translated _Book of Images_ is new for me (outside of
- the occasional poem which has been anthologized by another translator),
- and I quite enjoyed both of Snow's volumes of Rilke's _New Poems_, so
- I'm looking forward to this one.
-
- The Walter Kaufmann I count as a find. I've had my eyes open
- for it for a year or two now (ever since I argued here with
- Roger Lustig, and he strongly recommended it).
-
- Also, Michael Oakeshott responds to a recommendation I've been keeping
- from Keith Morgan for awhile.
-
- Mikhail probably planted the suggestion which led me to get the
- Burkert. I usually comb the classics shelves for interesting volumes
- anyway, and I happened to see these. I didn't find Burkert's _Greek
- Religion_, which is what Mikhail had directed me to to look at regarding
- _mania_, but both these look interesting.
-
- _The Athenian Trireme_ was pure whimsy.
-
- Speaking of which, the 4 Sayers volumes were to replace 4
- copies which are so well-thumbed (by my wife) that they are
- in danger of self destructing. I'm hoping to launch into Sayers
- over the holidays.
-
- The Freud from _An Autobiographical Study_ to _Totem and Taboo_
- are all wine-red paperbacks, many of them quite thin. They are
- labelled ``The Standard Edition'' (means translated under the
- direction of James Strachey), and all have ``Sigmund Freud: A Brief Life''
- by Peter Gay as an introduction. I count 16 here, and if I look
- inside the front cover, I see I'd be missing _The Complete Introductory
- Lectures on Psychoanalysis_, _On Dreams_, and _New Introductory
- Lectures on Psychoanalysis_. That would seem to make 19 total
- volumes in ``The Standard Edition'', which puzzles me somewhat
- since it also says on the same page:
- THE STANDARD EDITION
- OF THE COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF
- SIGMUND FREUD
- 24 VOLUMES
- Fiona? Anyway, I figure that your (Fiona's) name-that-book mystery
- post of items from the index of one of these was the whetstone for
- inducing me to want to read them.
-
- The thing I was especially looking for, and didn't find any of,
- was Ransome. And this despite a huge children's and young adult
- section. Locally, I had picked up 9 of the 12 ``Swallows and
- Amazons'' series in Puffin paperback. I am still missing
- _Winter Holiday_, _Pigeon Post_, and _Great Northern?_ (volumes
- 4, 6, and 12). What was funny was that I asked about them at the
- information desk, and the clerk looked them up on the computer
- (I assume this is the same as ``Books in Print''?) and she found
- only 3 or 4 of the 12 Ransome volumes were available, none of them
- in the (cheap) Puffin edition I had just found them in in Canada.
- I went ahead and ordered the ones I wanted when I got back here.
-
- We totaled up US$376 in books when we crossed back into Canada at Windsor,
- which, although it is admittedly extravagant, is not even close to our
- record.
-
- Mike Morris
- (msmorris@watsci.uwaterloo.ca)
-
-
-