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25 Alltime favorite Books, fiction and non-fiction, in order of appreciation

1. Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie
2. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
3. Musashi (A folk Novel of Japan) by Eiji Yoshikawa
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1 & Milan Kundera2
   
5. Native Son by Richard Wright
6. Meetings With Remarkable Men by G.I. Gurdjieff
7. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
8. The Child Buyers by Aldous Huxley
9. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salmon Rusdie
10. Nasrudin by Idries Shah
11. The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar
12. Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castenada
13. Our Life With Mr. Gurdjieff by Thomas and Olga de Hartmann
14. Babel 17 by Samuel Delaney
15. The Bhagavad-Gita
16. The Glass Cage by Colin Wilson
17. Monkey (A folk Novel of China) by Wu Ch'engen
18. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley
19. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
20. End of a Dream by Philip Wylie
21. Mythologies by William Butler Yeats
22. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
23. Sidharta by Hermann Hesse
24. Views from the Real World (Early Talks) by G.I. Gurdjieff
25. R.L.'s Dream by Walter Mosely
26. Calahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson

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12 Favorite Books from 1990 to the present, in order of appreciation

1. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salmon Rushdie
2. R.L.'s Dream by Walter Mosely
3. Earth by David Brin
4. Of Water and Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Somé
5. Race Matters by Cornell West
6. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
7. The Crest of the Peacock (Non-European Roots of Mathematics) by George Gheverghese Joseph
8. Challenge of the Heart by John Welwood
9. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosely
10. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
11. Iron John by Robert Bly
12. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Reader by Amiri Baraka.

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Favorite Poets, in order of appreciation
1. William Blake	2. Pablo Neruda	3. Paul Laurence Dunbar	4. Arthur Rimbaud	5. Alan Ginsberg
6. Margaret Atwood	7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge	8. Nikki Giovanni	9. Federico Garcia-Lorca	10. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
11. Andrei Codrescu	12. Kenneth Patchen	13. Rabindranath Tagore	14. Langston Hughes	15. Maria Rainer Rilke
16. Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)	17. Bei Dao	14. Robert Bly	19. Maya Angelou	20. Derek Walcott
21. Countee Cullen	22. Lucille Clifton	23. Rita Dove		25. Richard Brautigam

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Favorite African-American Writers/Poets, in order of appreciation
1. Paul Laurence Dunbar	2. Samuel Delany	3. Richard Wright	4. Walter Moseley	5. Langston Hughes
6. Nikki Giovanni	7. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones	8. James Baldwin	9. Langston Hughes	5. Cornell West
11. Haki Madhubuti	12. Jean Toomer	13. Maya Angelou	14. Henry Louis Gates	15. Alex Haley
16. Alice Walker	17. Derek Walcott	18. Octavia Butler	19. Claud Brown	20. Countee Cullen
21. Lucille Clifton	22. Toni Morrison		24. Rita Dove	25. The Last Poets

Additional Writer Links maybe found in the page The Fat African American Library

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Favorite Visual Artists, in order of appreciation			1. Piet Mondrian	6. Kandinski	11. Frieda Kahlo	2. Johannes Vermeer, in Washington	7. Robert Crumb1&Robert Crumb2	12. Henri Rousseau	3. Heironymous Bosh	8. Samuel Yellin	13. Aubrey Beardsley	4. Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum	9. Georgia O'Keefe	14. Frank Loyd Wright	5. Jacob Lawrence	10. Peter Breugel, the elder	15. Yves Tanguy

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Musicians, - unordered favorites				John Coltrane	Eric Satie	Hendrix	Bach	Miles Davis	Xenakis	Robert Johnson	Mozart	Marian Anderson	Zappa	Beethovan	de Hartmann	Stravinski	Bob Marley	Dr. John	Olatunji	Keith Jarrett	Aretha Franklin	Terry Riley	Maharvishnu John MacLaughlin

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More Poet Links

1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Jim Nash's's Asylum
3. Ozlit Poetry Page
4. Aha! Poetry
5. The Ultimate Cool Poetry Site
6. Academy of American Poets
7. Mark Williams poetry index
8. Amiri Baraka, Kenneth Patchen Patchen's wife, and Charles Mingus

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More Visual Art Links in progress

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More Writer Links in progress

1. Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction

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Gee, should I mention some pieces? Miles Davis' 1959 Kind of Blue. It had Coltrane & Adderley ... (I seen 'em live in 1957 Boston). Unfortunately, Satie had difficulty making the recording session, he was delayed by Piet Mondrian, Aleister Crowley, and The Order of the Golden Dawn , according to Kenneth Patchen, listening to Scott Joplin do Bach. No wonder Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Robert Johnson, and James Brown all bought the devil's song ('cept for Leroy, I seen 'em live too).

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