the unhappy divided consciousness of modern man

It is 11:52 AM late Saturday morning in the flow of my own private God centered existence. I am down in the basement recovering from the morning. We left this morning for the GR used book sale around 7:10 AM and got home around 11 o’clock AM. I got these used books for my book collection this morning—

1. “Invitation to a Beheading” a novel by Vladimir Nabokov

2. “The Twenties: An Intimate Portrait Of The Jazz Age” by Edmund Wilson

3. “Joseph Conrad The Three Lives: A Biography” by Frederick R. Karl

4. “Consciousness And Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought 1890-1930″ by H. Stuart Hughes

5. “The Portable Nabokov” (originally published as Nabokov’s “Congeries”)

6. “A Rage To Live” a novel by John O’Hara

7. “The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas” by Gertrude Stein

8. “The Darling” a novel by Russell Banks

9. “Essays And Introductions” by W. B. Yeats

10. “The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre” edited and introduced by Robert Denoon Cumming

11. “Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald In Hollywood” by Arron Latham

12. “The Assassins” a novel by Joyce Carol Oates

13. “The Enigma Of Arrival” a novel by V. S. Naipaul

14. “The Great Illusion 1900-1914″ by Oron J. Hale

15. “On Moral Fiction” by John Gardner

16. “The Journals of John Cheever”

17. “The Mrs. Dalloway Reader” Edited by Francine Prose

18. “Dirty Work” a novel by Larry Brown

19. “Self-Consciousness Memoirs” by John Updike

20. “Heat And Other Stories” by Joyce Carol Oates

21. “The Counterfeiters” by Andre Gide

22. “Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait” by Paxton Hibben With A Foreword by Sinclair Lewis

Carol bought a ton of books. We also got books for Josiah our second son who is a History Teacher. So as gone by Time. I am tired and really need to go off and do nothing this afternoon. Carol has gone to bed for the day. I have not read anything today. Well I will close to wander my cell.

I will try to do next is catalog my used books in my LibraryThing site.

music: Destroyer “Trouble In Dreams”

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