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. . . RAP see "MUSIC" for related links Two rap music artists have had their music banned from sale to minors under censorship guidelines. Florida-based MC Khia's single My Neck, My Back, which explicitly describes oral sex, and album Thug Misses, which includes the track F*** Dem Other Hoes, and New York rapper Necro's album, Brutality Part One, whose raps include the proper way of getting rid of a dead body, have been banned by the Australian Record Industry Association. --Carla Caruso, X-rated rappers http://entertainment.news.com.au/common/story_ page/0,4459,8909759%255E10431%255E%255Enbv,00.html Rock and roll was music to get pregnant by. Rap is music to get dead by. --Lewis Grizzard (1946-1994) American author and commentator on the American South  ;void(0)) RAPE OF NANKING . . see "EVIL" for related links - Saturday, December 18. A day of complete anarchy. Several big fires raging today, started by the soldiers, and more are promised ... Some houses are entered from five to ten times in one day, and the poor people looted and robbed and the women raped. Several were killed in cold blood, for no apparent reason whatever. Thursday, December 23. Seventy men were taken from our camp at the Rural Leaders' Training School and shot. No system - soldiers seize anyone they suspect. Callouses on hands are proof that the man was a soldier, a sure death warrant. Rickshaw coolies, carpenters and other laborers are frequently taken. --Dr. M. Searle Bates, diary entries [December 1937] in Harold Timperley _What War Means_ [1938] pp.25-29. {Dr. Bates was an American teacher at Nanjing University and an eyewitness to the atrocities.} - The final death count was almost incredible, between 1,578,000 and 6,325,000 people. R.J. Rummel gives a prudent estimate of 3,949,000 killed, of which all but 400,000 were civilians. But he points out that millions more perished from starvation and disease caused in large part by Japanese looting, bombing, and medical experimentation. If those deaths are added to the final count, then one can say that the Japanese killed more than 19 million Chinese people in its war against China. --Iris Chang (1968-2004), _The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II_ [1997] & see: [Iris] Chang learned from her research [of the Nanking atrocities] that "civilization itself is tissue-thin." She adds "Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat." --Ralph Kinney Bennett _Reader's Digest_ [September 1998], "The Woman Who Wouldn't Forget" The Rape of Nanking . . see "ANIMALS" for related links Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladle's, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. --Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet, _The Pied Piper of Hamelin_ Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. --William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924-2006) American clergyman and peace activist I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary. --Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, _Walden_ [1854], "Higher Laws" [Trivia] Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight. . . see "SUCCESS" for related links No time like the present. --Mrs Manley (1663-1724) English novelist and dramatist, _The Lost Lover_ [1696] Go ahead, make my day. --Joseph C. Stinson (1947- ) _Sudden Impact_ [1983 film]; spoken by Clint Eastwood ----- alacrity uh-LACK-ruh-tee, noun: A cheerful or eager readiness or willingness, often manifested by brisk, lively action or promptness in response. Ex.: As for his homemade meatloaf sandwich with green tomato ketchup, a condiment he developed while working in New York, I devoured it with an alacrity unbecoming in someone who gets paid to taste carefully. -- R.W. Apple Jr., "Southern Tastes, Worldly Memories," _New York Times_ [26 April 2000] . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. --Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. _Tatler_, [1709-1711], # 147 - If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. --Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) American philosopher, educator, and editor. _How to Read a Book_ [1940] "Reading and the Growth of the Mind" Suppose there were a college or university in which the faculty was thus composed: Herodotus and Thucydides taught the history of Greece, and Gibbon lectured on the fall of Rome. Plato and St. Thomas gave a course in metaphysics together; Fracis Bacon and John Stuart Mill discussed the logic of science; Aristotle, Spinoza, and Immanuel Kant shared the platform on moral problems; Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke talked about politics. You could take a series of courses in mathematics from Euclid, Descartes, Riemann, and Cantor, with Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead added at the end. You could listen to St. Augustine, Aquinas and William James talk about the nature of man and the human mind, with perhaps Jacques Maritain to comment on the lectures. In economics, the lectures were by Adam Smith, Ricardo, Karl Marx, and Marshall. Boas discussed the human race and its races, Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey the economic and political problems of American democracy, and Lenin lectured on communism. There might even be lectures on art by Leonardo da Vinci, and a lecture on Leonardo by Freud. A much larger faculty than this is imaginable, but this will suffice. Would anyone want to go to any other university, if he could get into this one? There need be no limitation of numbers. The price of admission -- the only entrance requirement -- is the ability and willingness to read and discuss. This school exists for everybody who is willing and able to learn from first-rate teachers. --Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) American philosopher, educator, and editor. - I took a speed-reading course where you run your finger down the middle of the page and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. --Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935 - ) American actor, screenwriter, and director. In Phyllis Mindell letter to _New York Times_ [3 September 1995]. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. --Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher and essayist. "Of Studies" I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on. . . By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch. --James Baldwin (1924-1987) American author and playwright. (In Ben Jacobs' _The Quotable Book Lover_ [1999], "Reading") The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. --Stan Barstow (1928- ) English novelist. In "Daily Mail" [15 August 1989]. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. --Ray Bradbury (1920- ) American science fiction author. In science, read by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British novelist and politician. _Caxtoniana_ [1863] "Hints on Mental Culture" It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. --Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911-1993) British surgeon and medical researcher. After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. --Chinese proverb It is almost made to appear that giving adequate time to a book or to serious ideas in print smacks of retardation. Lingering over a passage and allowing it to stimulate the mind is a civilizing experience. No one need apologize for savoring the full meaning of print or for combining thinking with reading. Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all. --Norman Cousins (1915-1990) American publisher. I read big fat "Les Miserables" for weeks while I took the IRT subway for my Wednesday allergy shots. I needed to know Jean Valjean lived a more miserable life than I did. --E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (1931- ) American writer. _Lives of the Poets_ - Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely nearsighted man who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. In _Ideas and Opinions_ [1954] "On Classic Literature" [February 1952]. - - I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "14 July 1763". - I love to lose myself in other men's minds. --Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist. _Last Essays of Elia_ [1883], "Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading" It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. --Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (1908-1988) American author of Western fiction. _Education of a Wandering Man_ [1989] - Readers usually grossly underestimate their own importance. If a reader cannot create a book along with the writer, the book will never come to life. Creative involvement: that's the difference between reading a book and watching TV. In watching TV, we are passive--sponges; we do nothing. In reading, we must become creators, imagining the setting of the story, seeing the facial expressions, hearing the inflection of the voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words. --Madeleine L'Engle (1918- ) American writer. _Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art_ - For reading, lately I have re-read _Faerie Queene_ with enormous enjoyment. It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it--and that to my mind is one of the best tests. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898-1963) British scholar and novelist. _Letter to Arthur Greeves_ [7 December 1935]. People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist and drama critic. In J. P. Stern's _Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions_ [1959], p. 309 "Further Excerpts from Lichtenberg's Notebooks." I read Pride and Prejudice by day and love to go to bed with a Trollope at night! --Harold MacMillan (1894-1986) British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister [1957-1963]. On his favorite reading matter, recalled by Margaret Thatcher, and quoted by The Archbishop of Canterbury at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet [19 February, 2002]. Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of everyday a source of bitter disappointment. --W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _Of Human Bondage_ [1915] There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] - VVhen my brother, Secretary at the Ministry of Ceremonial, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father, a most learned man, was always regretting that fact: 'Just my luck!' he would say. 'What a pity she was not born a man!' But then I gradually realized that people were saying 'It's bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good ... ' Her Majesty asked me to read with her here and there from the Collected Works of Po Chu-i, and, because she evinced a desire to know more about such things, to keep it secret we carefully chose times when the other women would not be present, and, from the summer before last, I started giving her informal lessons on the two volumes of 'New Ballads'. I hid this fact from others, as did Her Majesty. --Lady Murasaki Shikibu Japanese novelist and poet. (c.980-c.1030) _The Diary of Lady Murasaki_ (1996 trans.) pp.57-8, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds} _History in Quotations_ [2004] Cohan & Major explain: Lady Murasaki Shikibu was the author of the masterpiece The Tale of Genji (c.1022), the first novel in world literature. The diary recounts her personal recollections of life at the imperial court in Kyoto at a time when it was considered inappropriate for a lady to read the Chinese classics. - It is better to read trash with enjoyment than masterpieces with yawning groans. --Harold Nicolson (1886-1968) English diplomat, politician, and writer. As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. --Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) American libertarian author and social critic. _Memoirs of a Superfluous Man_ [1943], ch. 1, pt. 4 Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947- ) American political satirist. Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in just the right mood. Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about? Naturally, about a murder. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903-1950) English novelist. "Decline of the English Murder" [written 1946] For years a secret shame destroyed my peace-- I'd not read Eliot, Auden, or MacNeice. But then I had a thought that brought me hope-- Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope. --Justin Richardson (1900-1975) British poet. "Take Heart, Illiterates" [1966] And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher. "Religion and Other Essays: On Books and Reading" _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1851] Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. --George Seferis [Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades] (1900-1971) Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. --Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) Irish-born essayist and dramatist. In "The Tatler" [18 March 1710]. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. --Mike Tyson (1966- ) American professional boxer and heavyweight champion. If the books which you read are your own, mark with a pen or pencil the most considerable things in them which you desire to remember. Then you may read that book the second time over with half the trouble, by your eye running over the paragraphs which your pencil has noted. It is but a very weak objection against this practice to say, 'I shall spoil my book'; for I persuade myself that you did not buy it as a bookseller, to sell again for gain, but as a scholar, to improve your mind by it; and if the mind be improved, your advantage is abundant, through your book yields less money to your executors. --Isaac Watts (1674-1748) English hymn writer. _Logic On the Right use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth_ [1724] - The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known. People often say that a set of books looks ugly if all volumes are in the same format, but I was impressed to hear the Abbot Koyu say, 'It is typical of the unintelligent man to insist on assembling complete sets of everything. Imperfect sets are better.' --Yoshida Kenko (c. 1283-c. 1350) Japanese poet and essayist. _Tsurezure-gusa_ (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1330]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major add: The priest Kenko notes the Japanese preference for irregularity: 'In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished. '" - Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. - A Bookworm ----- abibliophobia (Noun) [ê-bi-bli-ê-'fo-bee-yê] The morbid fear of running out of reading material. cursory (adj.) 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