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Permalink Reply by Nelson on August 1, 2012 at 5:03pm

With all the other stuff I juggle day to day I can't promise to be real involved but I've read the book and I'll follow along if there's a discussion that gets going in this thread.

Also, for those that don't have the book, many of the selections in the book are actually in the public domain, particularly the older ones. As a consequence, you can easily find them online. Here's a link to the book's Table of Contents. Searching for and finding most of the earlier selections is then just a matter of a quick Google search. For instance, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, the first selection, is here. (Hitchens selects sections from books I, II, III, and V). The second, The Rubaiyat By Omar Khayyam, is here. And so on.

Enjoy! :)

Permalink Reply by Boothby171 on August 1, 2012 at 5:21pm

Juli,

I've been looking for a good excuse to get back to my portable copy....I'll try to take you up on this!

Steve