Dec 10 2010
With the fight for health care, I’ve been interested in looking back at the administration of the last (great) liberal President: LBJ.
For years his achievements in domestic policy were overshadowed by Vietnam.
Time is ripe to re-evaluate his Presidency and appreciate what he and Martin Luther King accomplished for all Americans. What extraordinary men they were, what an extraordinary battle they waged.
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This is not a review of any particular edition, but of the work in general and I only put this here in response to a number of one-star reviews scattered about various editions available on Amazon.
Often a reviewer will say the book is “boring” and “stupid” then give it a one-star rating. Some reviewers go on to recommend some outrageous alternative (like a video game) so I am not sure if all those reviewers are serious or not, but they do get a couple of things right — it does get repetitive (“long and boring”?) and some of the characters do some very stupid things (like blindly promising to grant anyone pretty much whatever they ask for before knowing what it will be).
But all that has a purpose. It eases you into accepting and joining that reality — falling in love with that imaginary time and place. The story starts with light hearted and humorous episodes — good deeds are done, victories are won, valor is rewarded, romances consummated (or not) — but as you go through the “boring” parts it slowly gets darker and darker. When it all comes to its (by then) inevitable end it really means something to you. Just where did things go wrong? Where is Merlin when you need him?
“HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE”
(“Shame be to him who thinks evil of it”)
From beginning to end, this story braces the imagination, and takes one to a place and time where faith, honor, and courage were central. You just may find yourself admiring and beginning to love some of the knights and damsels you’re reading about. When I finished the book and put it on the shelf, it was a lot like saying good-bye to a friend.
What makes the book even better for a modern is that Mr. Matthews’ edition has rendered it extremely readable, while still keeping the ancient flavor that helps put aside for a moment the outlook of the present century. And Ms. Ferguson’s excellent drawings of various scenes, interspersed throughout, are further delights that help the mind paint its own pictures along the way.
It is said that Arthur’s story is known throughout the world. That must be in part because the story is great; and this edition tells it very well.
This 1962 translation of Sir Thomas Malory’s account of the King Arthur legend has many things to recommend it. Robert Graves, a historical novelist of just renown, writes an introduction telling us about Malory’s life, the good, the bad and the ugly. We get the benefit of Graves’ scholarship as well as his authorly insight. Malory, born a gentleman, was a Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in 1445, but he turned rogue and robber five years later and was imprisoned in Newgate. There he languished, wrote this collection of tales about King Arthur and there he died.
The text is a pleasure to read. Keith Baines has walked a narrow line with razor sharp accuracy. He gives us the action in clear, crisp language that contains no jarring anachronisms. This is important because the ornamental nature of Malory’s fifteenth century prose is a two-edged sword. Despite the beauty of the prose, it’s heavy going for a modern reader.
The importance of Sir Thomas Malory’s work can hardly be overstated. Writing in the fifteenth century, he still had access to earlier works and oral legends that have been lost to later ages. In Malory’s work, the legend of Arthur becomes codified into the romantic love triangle of king-queen-leading knight that still inspires a diverse collection of writers. Every era sees a definitive retelling of this story changing the emphasis and details to make King Arthur forever young.
I love this edition and it grieves me to see that it is out of print and has become a rarity. Some copyright hindrance must be the issue as this book does not lack in excellence.
Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur ” is perhaps the best-known version of the Arthurian legends in English. Despite the title, “the death of Arthur”, the work does not deal solely with King Arthur’s death but rather with the whole of his life and reign. The error appears to have originated with Malory’s first publisher William Caxton who applied the title of Malory’s final section to the entire work. The book retells some well-known stories from French and English sources, such as the Sword in the Stone, the Quest for the Holy Grail, the romance of Tristan and Isolde, the adulterous love between Lancelot and Guinevere and the death of King Arthur at the hands of the traitor Mordred. One of the book’s eight sections, the Tale of Sir Gareth, appears to be Malory’s own invention.
The identity of the author is not precisely known. During the time it was being written, during the 1450s and 1460s, there were at least six men named Thomas Malory living in England, but most (although not all) modern scholars attribute the work to Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire. This individual lived from around 1413 to 1470, so would have lived through the latter part of the Hundred Years War as well as the Wars of the Roses. He appears to have been a colourful character who served as an MP for Warwickshire but also served time in prison for various offences including rape and robbery. There is an irony if such a man was indeed the author of Le Morte D’Arthur, as one of the work’s major themes is how one might reconcile two of the great preoccupations of the Middle Ages, love of God and love of violence.
There is some doubt as to whether King Arthur ever existed, and to judge from Caxton’s preface there were some people who had doubts about his existence even in the 1400s. Malory, however, presents his work as though it were the true story of a real historical figure who lived about a thousand years before his own time. The work is, however, anachronistic in that the society which Malory describes bears a much greater resemblance to that of the fifteenth century than it does to that of the fifth. Malory even makes reference to cannon, even though firearms were only introduced into Europe about a century before his birth. (Mind you, the only character who actually makes use of guns is Mordred. Perhaps Malory saw them as the coward’s weapon.)
Indeed, the whole work is based around an anachronism. Although fifth-century societies had warriors, they had no concept of the institution of knighthood or chivalry, something which grew up in the later Middle Ages. This institution may have developed in an attempt to reconcile warfare with Christian ideals. In “Le Morte d’Arthur” these ideals are represented by the Pentecostal Oath sworn by the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur makes his knights swear that they will only fight in a righteous cause, show mercy to defeated opponents, uphold justice, fight against oppression, protect the poor and weak and respect the chastity of women.
A key concept in the book is “honour”- except that Malory generally does not use this Norman-French loanword, preferring the native English “worship”, with all its religious connotations. A knight can gain worship by mighty feats of arms, provided they are performed in a worthy cause. A knight will lose worship if he fights in an evil cause or if he fights unfairly, such as by striking an opponent who is wounded or unhorsed.
Yet despite this note of idealism, Malory’s vision is at heart a pessimistic one. The only knight who wholly lives up to these ideals is Galahad, who is rewarded with a vision of the Holy Grail but dies young. Galahad’s father Lancelot, in other respects a paragon of knighthood, is deemed unworthy because of his adultery with Queen Guinevere, and most of the other knights fall a lot further short of the ideals expressed in the Pentecostal Oath than does Lancelot. Even Arthur himself, although initially presented as a beacon of hope, is far from being an idealised monarch- he fathers a child, for instance, by his own sister. It is the affair between Lancelot and Guinevere which leads to the civil war which devastates the kingdom, to the downfall of the Round Table and to the death of Arthur. Malory was doubtless inspired to write these passages by the civil war which had devastated England in his own lifetime and his message is clear; idealism is doomed to failure by human weakness.
My comments are based upon the Wordsworth edition which modernises the spelling and punctuation but otherwise leaves the text as it was first published by Caxton. The modern reader’s main problem with the work is unlikely to be Malory’s language- there are only a handful of unfamiliar vocabulary items, and the Wordsworth edition provides a helpful glossary of these- but his long-winded prose style and tendency to repeat himself. Apart from the Holy Grail sequences, which are more like an extended religious allegory, the narrative tends to fall into a very familiar pattern- Knight A rides out, meets Knight B, fights with him, overcomes him and then moves on to a fight with Knight C, which is described in similar terms. Even Malory’s similes become repetitive- two knights fighting are generally likened to two wild boars hurtling together, even though these creatures had been extinct in England for around two hundred years at the time he was writing. Malory’s passion for informing us exactly how many knights Lancelot or Gawaine unhorsed at some particular tournament recalls that of the football anorak who can recite by heart all Sheffield Wednesday’s results from the 1956-57 season.
Some modern editions abridge the text, and I can understand why. “Le Morte D’Arthur” may be the best-known work of English-language Arthurian literature today, but “well-known” does not always equate to “widely read”, and I suspect that most readers today will owe their familiarity with the story to a modern retelling. The original, at least in its unabridged form, will probably be of most interest to those with an academic interest in the development of English literature.
disciplined practice of exercises exposed in this book help to achieve a higher level of awareness. But it does not guide in what to do next…..
This book contains deep commentary on humanity’s low level of awareness that touched me immensely, but it is also quite simply a manual for practical methods of stress reduction. When I actually manage to overcome my laziness and practice the exercises Baines suggests, my whole perspective on life becomes more positive and relaxed and I begin to succeed in areas I never believed I could.
Easy to read and understand. Found this book very useful in discovering more information about ethical wills. Several written examples also provided.
This is a great introduction to ethical wills. They sound really mysterious but it’s a great concept — writing a letter to the future — that’s a really valuable gift for a family. And it’s a really useful process for the writer. It can give you a whole different perspective on how valuable your experiences are.
If you are searching for a venue to create a legacy for your family that will continue for generations to come, purchase Bary Baines Ethical Wills, Second Edition to assist you in preparing this written legacy. The intriguing concept of sharing ones’ values and ethics is a priceless investment not only to the writer but to everyone who will ever read the document. Baines also includes information and insight into another important document that everyone needs to write: The Living Will. This book is a valuable investment that is worth more that you will ever pay. It is well written, inspiring and when you complete it you will have a legacy to leave your heirs.
Ethical Wills by Barry Baines, MD breaks new ground in the ethical will movement within the US. Written for easy comprehension, this book covers the topic in excellent fashion, while providing the inspiration so essential to completing the task of putting our values in print for those we leave behind. I highly recommend this book, not only for the informational content, but for the encouragement it brings for completing the process. The section on living wills and advance directives is also very informative and useful. For those looking for a single source of information on this subject, Ethical Wills by Barry Baines is an outstanding resource.
This is really one firm’s style book and their personal encyclopedia of typographical knowledge. The advice on style is quirky. The guide to accessing hidden glyphs on your keboard is full of errors. The mark-up guide is not in agreement with the standard Chicago method. Their collection of objects and typographic samples are of great historical interest and the illustrations will illuminate many typographical points.
Look here, read the book for yourself. Regardless of who wrote it, or who lied about who, or who really is. There is something in this book that will definitely make you feel better about yourself. Check it out, I Gaurantee you will appreciate it!
Good book to wake up from the illusions about the world. But does not inform or guide in real awakening.
I purchased this book, having been a student of Hermetics for many years. What a waste of money! The fact that this book is recommended as a companion to the Kybalion is an insult to the Three Initiates!
From the very start, Mr. Baines has a condescending tone when referring to anyone who doesn’t share his viewpoint, especially towards those not initiated into Hermetics. Solipsism is one of the most difficult things for a student to overcome, remembering that not everyone is as attuned as you are, that not everyone sees the truth your way. Baines carries on with this pretentious attitude throughout the entire book.
Other absurdities include his theory of nicotine addiction on page 35, which he says “brings to life a special being formed by the energy of the burning tobacco and the smoker’s pleasure. This entity stirs up a constant restlessness in the smoker, which can only be appeased by lighting a cigarette.” In other words, you’re not addicted as science would have you believe, you’re possessed!
One of the most offensive passages comes on page 44 where Mr. Baines, in his infinite wisdom, discusses the sexual deviations of women. Apparently, one of these “deviations” is being a victim of rape, or as Mr. Baines puts it, being “brutally possessed by a man with passionate instincts.” Excuse me, Mr. Baines, but where I come from people take responsibility for their actions and a man who “brutally possesses” a woman is called a RAPIST and is treated like the criminal that he is!
About the only time Mr. Baines makes any sense is when he is essentially quoting from the Kybalion, which is the book you should be buying. Don’t waste your money on this tripe!
I found this book to be quite deceptive yet intriguing. Depending on how much you’re aware of ancient Sumerian history and Nibiru hypothesis, will you understand my comment and be aware of some serious manipulations within this book. Hence, if you’ve read some works by Zechariah Stitchin, David Icke, you’ll know exactly where this author is coming from. These ancient alien beings like the author would make slaves of man, surely not initiates. These alien beings are the perverted secret societies, the illuminati, etc. that continue to reign over a planet of unconscious humans. Rent the whole Matrix series again, THEN read the book. You’ll be calling the author “Mr. Smith”. If you’re a sufficiently aware human, It’ll shock the socks off of you. I made this book homework for my students, as it is a wonderful scale upon which to judge ones’ awareness, mind control and vulnerability around cultish mentalities. I challenge you to read this book and question the motives of this author.
Is he a true initiate? Are you sure? Read it twice, and ask yourself what this man wants. Has he created a superiorty cult with anti-semetic undertones and subtle but manipulative and oppressive views of women. Nearly all my students felt he had an ingenius way of expressing his “oxy-warped” views and opinions, that he could truly be a great cult leader. Great but dangerous to his followers. But the true danger my friends is not in the writer (or “leader”). True danger lies in the mental weakness of the follower who gives away his power mental independence to the leader of the manipulator. I use Hitler as example of a soul “allowed” freely to manipulate the masses of weak minded individuals and create disaster. A system that has been done since the creation of humankind. It is my opinion that if this author had such power as Hitler, humankind could possibly be worse off than our present disasterous state. A strong opinion I give to you, but nonetheless worthy of your notice.I gave this book 1 star, as it is a valuable tool in which to judge the readers’ personal empowerment, deeper intelligence and ability to be manipulated. Do not be fooled. The “good” intentions behind this “illuminati cheerleader” are hardly good. I CANNOT imagine the likes of Agrippa, Flammel or Blavatsky being found in the same room with this person. A worthy note: The writer supplies just enough truths and “ah-hahs” to the excite the reader, catch their interest and sway them into his manipulative web. Truly the work of an ingenious cult leader. Reminds me of a famous buddhist quote: “Do not believe all that you hear, even if it comes from me, still do not believe it”. If you’re interested in hermetics, I suggest Franz Bardon. He leaves his personal opinions out, isn’t looking to start an “cult for initiates”, and offers wonderful exercises that will improve your consciousness and life overall. Be a student of life, but a slave to none. Which is it for you then: “The blue pill, or the red pill”.
I have to confess that before I read this book, I associated LBJ only with the mysterious Box 13 in Florida and the conspiracy theory that he “stole” the presidency — hardly what I would call empirical facts about a most amazing U.S. President.
This book introduced me to a whole new side of Lyndon B. Johnson. A man from Texas who was once, at least nominally, associated with the KKK, but whose conscious wouldn’t let him continue with them. A man who’s best political interests would most likely have been served by avoiding MLK at all costs, but who’s passion for justice compelled him to push the U.S. to brink of civil war. While MLK wanted to fight for the black voter, LBJ wanted to fight for everyone who was robbed of free will due to crushing poverty. Together these two conflicting and contradictory men shaped the most revolutionary civil rights legislation since Lincoln and I never knew. I never would have guessed.
This book isn’t just history; it’s a powerful drama that is so well written, the pages pull the reader through some of the most frightening decisions in the social fabric of our nation. If LBJ went as far as MLK wanted him to, would the nation be torn by riots? If he didn’t help the huge sector of American society which remained outside the American dream, would the nation be torn by riots? Would it have been torn regardless of what Washington, D.C. did to try to appease, mitigate or alleviate the tensions?
This is really an incredible read.
Author Nick Kotz brings out the personalities of the heavy hitters of the 1960’s, especially President Lyndon Johnson and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. The book begins with the assassination of President Kennedy as Lyndon Johnson is then thrust into the presidency. Determined to carry out Kennedy’s programs Johnson achieves initial success with his Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Equal Voting Rights Act of 1965. The author does a wonderful job characterizing Johnson’s ability to give others the “Johnson treatment” in convincing them to go along with his programs. He has to deal with, not only conservative Democratic politicians determined to keep segregation permanent, but with diverse personalities such as Bobby Kennedy who felt Johnson was trying to “take over” too fast following his brother’s assassination, F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover who kept voluminous files on those he may need to blackmail at some time in the future, and Martin Luther King, Jr. who wanted to achieve equal rights through nonviolence. King realized, however, that he needed to wake up the country by having them see the physical violence his marchers were subjected to in the South. Vietnam put the kibosh on Johnson’s Great Society program and War on Poverty to such an extent that he chose not to run for a second term in that horrendous year of 1968 which saw both Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated, the Vietnam was spiraled out of control, cities continued to burn in rioting as they had in 1967, and Richard Nixon went on to become the next president. Whether you lived through these years or not they were historic times and this book is required reading for those wanting to learn about this period in history.