Cogitations II

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Lulu.com, 1 aug. 2005 - 316 pagini
Full title: "Cogitations of an Urban Hermit - Book Two" A series of essays on ideas and subjects similar to the first book of such essays, and several autobiographical snippets. In addition there are translations of non-copyright-protected writings by others whose circulation I wish to enhance.

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COGITATIONS
1
Mans Downfall
7
Translation ofPoetry
13
Overharvesting of timber
22
deposits while obtaining obscene profits
29
What? The Illegality ofthe War is Irrelevant?
37
New Barbarians
43
Global dimming
55
Kill Kill Kill
123
TheRoad to Contentment
125
A Splendid Human Being
126
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 74 Education ofChildren
127
Feeding Ones Girth
130
Bureaucracy
131
Brio
133
Talk about Slippery Soles
135

The Function and Importance of the Environmen t to
61
A Theory Regarding Spiritual Evolution
67
We Grrow Too Soon Oldtand Too Late Schmarrt
73
Iniquities ofthe Establishment
80
Thoughts on the Canadian FederalElection Anno 2000
86
The Evolutionary Effects of Underdevelopment
91
Small Investors Investments Can Never Lead to the Socialization ofCapital
92
USSR
94
How Ashes Were Discharged Overboardfrom Steamships
96
UnitedNations
97
Let the United Nations Run the WorldsPostal System May the UN Take Over Shipping Registry Standing Army and Navy
98
Why the Machine Failed to Function
100
Leave the Clocks Where They Are
101
TRAVEL NOTES 56 Campione DItalia
102
Money and Saintliness
103
Trip Diary ofa Tourist Courier
104
Travels of the Ancients
107
The Deserter
109
Rat Chase
111
Lenin on Capri
112
Ernest A chance encounter at a Greyhound Bus station
113
Polyglot Beggar
116
EdB
117
Norman
119
The CCM Man
120
ABeggarsMoralizing
122
Dogma
136
An Early Resolve
140
Philosophy ofLife
141
A Pet Turtle
143
A Robins Nest
144
Fire Drills at School
145
Later Schooldays
147
Riding a Bicycle Downhill
149
A Turn Towarda Sailors Life on SS Lady Alexandra
152
The Truant
155
What Was a 1926 Chevrolet Like?
157
How I Finally Reconciled Myselfto the Fact That I Would Never
163
Elected by Acclamation
171
Life Has Its Strange Moments
177
A Stab at Fiction IA Weak Footing
184
A Stab at Fiction III The Girl Who Got Away
193
APPENDIX
214
The Chaco War
251
Humanism According to Zamenhof
265
My Translation intoEsperanto of Two Famous Poems
271
Mennonites in the Great Polder Retracing the Footsteps
277
Neapolitan Sayings
283
Aiming Toward 100 Million Signatures
290
Isa Lei A Fijian Folksong
297
General Notes
303
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