Books with author Robert Lynd

The book narrates the Journey of John who mysteriously disappears from the earth and ended up on the planet of Zoolus ruled by the supreme leader king Zarrat. Naked alone and cold John encounters Zoolus strange creatures whose only intention are to eat or destroy the lonesome earthling.John escape and was eventually assisted by a friendly molten flowing river who after rescuing him from the advancing, menacing Zooluts.The river then hatches an escape plan along with a two thousand years old concoction mixing lady's skill. John eventually escapes from the weird planet and taken back to the arms of his loving wife. A good read, this short story was written with the children in mind but will be an equal delight to the young at heart and the lovers of the sci-fi genre.

Created complete, equipped for sporadic multiplication and later for auto-fertilization, the restless sex, intensely bored by the process of procreation, presently invented an auxiliary and labeled him. A fool proceeding, for the inherited mania for invention obsessed him and he began to invent gods. The only kind of gods that his imagination could conceive were various varieties of supermen, stronger, more cruel, craftier than he. And with these he continued to derive satisfaction by scaring himself. But the restless sex remained restless; the invention of the sign of Mars, far from bringing content, merely increased the capacity of the sex for fidgeting. And its insatiate curiosity concerning its own handiwork increased. This handiwork, however, fulfilled rather casually the purpose of its inventor, and devoted the most of its time to the invention of gods, endowing the most powerful of them with all its own cowardice, vanity, intolerance and ferocity. "He made us," they explained with a modesty attributable only to forgetfulness. "Believe in him or he'll damn you. And if he doesn't, we will!" they shouted to one another. And appointed representatives of various denominations to deal exclusively in damnation.

Robert M. Pirsig is an American author and philosopher known for his book ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’. He was a bright student and very curious to understand various singularities of life. He lost interest in studies and dropped out of school. He served the U.S Army for a short while before returning back to earn a bachelorette in Eastern Philosophy. His curiosity to further research on Eastern philosophy made him study at ‘Banaras Hindu University’. After coming back to his native, he started working as a freelance journalist and technical writer while writing short stories. His writing skills encouraged him to publish his first philosophical book ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values’. He had recorded his philosophical discoveries during his motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California. His next book ‘Lila: An Inquiry into Morals’ was a semi-autobiographical book and has been acknowledged to have developed the ‘Metaphysics of Quality’.

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Excerpt from Rambles in IrelandI do not mean that the Irish have made Galway a positive expression of their genius, an imaginative and symbolic city. Fortune has seen to it that that was impossible. But I do mean to say that amid the solid ruins Of this city, amid this scene Of abandoned greatness, the Irish have found their most interesting encampment on a large scale. Galway is Irish in a sense in which Dublin and Belfast and Cork and Derry are not Irish but cosmopolitan. Its people, their speech, their dress, their swarthy complexions, their black hair, their eyes like blue flames, excite the imagination with curious surmises. Galway city - technically, it is only Galway town - is to the discoverer Of Ireland something like what Chapman's Homer was to Keats. It is a clue, a provocation, an enticement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.