Books For Sale - Update

Just added a few more , hence this is a sticky for a while - So here goes that list -



Discovering Heraldry  £2  (used)

John Gray - Enligtnement;s Wake  £7  (brand new)

Foster Hirsch - Love Sex Death and The Meaning Of Life - The Films of Woody Allen £7 )new)

Michel Foucault - The Order of Things £8  (new)

Julian Barnes - Arthur and George  £2 (as new)

Ian Mortimer - The Time Travler's Guide To Medieval England  £4 (new)

Humphrey Carpenter -  J.R. R Tolkien  £3 (asnew )


Michael Cunningham - The Hours  £2  (used)

Terry Eagleton - Across The Pond , An Englsuman's View Of America £4  (very good(

Jeremy Narby - The Cosmic Serpent : DNA and The Origins Of Knowledge £3 (very good)

Colin Brown - Precott : The Biography  £4 (new)
Christine Woodward - Rigue Touch  £1  (used)



Douglas L. Wilson - Honor's Voice:The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln £4 *used)


John Waters - Crackpot : The Obsessions of John Waters £4 (new)

Stevie Smith - Me Again £3 (used)


The Poetic Works Of Edgar Allan Poe £2 (used)


John Sloan - Oscar Wilde, Authors in Content   £ 2  (used)

Note - all paperbacks unless stated.
I shall add soem more later. Message me if you are interested in any of these since depending on your location, and payments through PayPal. I shall put this on Wish List as well. Feel free to share.

Note - books to the USA will be around £7 - £10 postage

Cross-outs mean sold.

Brighton and Hove Visit

Well, morning was spent doing these reports from the visits i did yesterday.  One for a me;s suit company, an Apple store and a charity shop in Hove actually.

Picked up these from the charity shop visit -




and this CD -



Jazzy grooves in a hip hop stylee!

The weather in the morning was atrocious and it did not improve till midway through the afternoon. Arrived home at midnight.

I had the Lumix with me and i took some photos, including this wonderful colourful junction box..

Pics From Brighton and Hove

Here are the other pictures from yesterday.

( Photos here )

Tuesday Music Selection - Jazzy Grooves

Some jazz flavoured tunes today - all in a blue note mode -

Us3 - Eleven Long Years

Donald Byrd - Steppin' Into Tomorrow

Horace Silver - Filthy McNasty

Grant Green - Sookie Sookie

And finally -

Herbie Hancock - Blind Man, Blnd Man

Liberal Stuff

I did one of these fun quiz things here -

http://www.playbuzz.com/ashleighburns10/can-we-identify-your-age-based-on-your-political-opinions

I was estimated at 26 and a liberal , lol

After i entered my question replies it came up with this -

"You must be around 26 years old! You have a young, optimistic and hopeful attitude about the world. You are very liberal when it comes to most issues, especially social and economic ones. Things like social justice, human rights and the environment are very important to you. You consider yourself a pacifist and activist. It's a good thing you're so passionate because your generation is the next one to take over the world!"



I wonder what Buffy would make of it.

book 41 - Jeremy Narby "The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge"

Jeremy Narby "The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge" (Phoenix)





Narby's (prudent) decision to frame his book as a narrative of personal discovery creates an apparent kinship with the "thick description" ethnography of Geertz, but one of his indictments of the anthropological field is that its texts (particularly those of the structuralists) tend to be arcane and tedious. A graver accusation, and probably one of more general application, is that anthropologists are involved in a work of cultural and intellectual expropriation, plundering the knowledge of societies they study, but attempting to "preserve" indigenous peoples by insulating them from the ability to criticize or benefit from Western knowledge. He also insists that the method and products of comparative religion (after the fashion of Eliade) deserve rehabilitation in the face of anthropological critiques.

Although rooted in Narby's experiences doing anthropological fieldwork among the Ashaninca people of the Amazon basin, the thesis of this book was developed through a cultivated mixture of academic textual research and "defocusing" non-rational contemplation. Wrestling with such difficulties as the mechanisms of hallucination and the nature of spirits that provide indigenous people with sophisticated botanical knowledge, he began to understand metaphoric expression and interpretation as necessary to his work. The section that describes the development of his method culminates in a fusion of his abstracted awareness with his concrete surroundings: "The path I was following led to a crystalline cascade gushing out a limestone cliff. The water was sparkling and tasted like champagne". I read this partly to describe the exhilaration of his emergence from the rational academic consensus, and also as a metaphor for DNA (the "crystalline cascade") as the destination of the intellectual "path [he] was following."

After much provocative exploration of molecular biology and comparative shamanism (for which his sources are all of impeccable credibility), Narby intimates that it may be a function of the "junk DNA," which comprises the vast majority of known bio-genetic material, to communicate and coordinate through the emission and reception of electromagnetic signals. Consequently, the entire biosphere may possess a single, ramified consciousness -- the Cosmic Serpent of the title -- which is accessible in whole or part to individual humans with the use of shamanic techniques.

He takes a serious look at how neurogenetic consciousness informs awareness, knowledge, symbolism and culture. His comparison of the ancient cosmic serpent myths to the genetic situation in every living cell reveals the immortal biomolecular wizard behind the curtain of everyday life. His anthropological study, ayahuasca experience and scientific speculations weave a tale of shamans who bring their consciousness down to molecular levels with sophisticated neurotransmitter potions in order to perceive information contained in the coherent visible light emitted by DNA."


I hugely enjoyed this book, despite my initial misgivings before i read it.