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Title:* Books *
Notice:Welcome to the new home of BOOKS on BOOKIE/ORION.
Moderator:ORION::chayna.zko.dec.com::tamara::eppes
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 20 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1700
Total number of notes:11955

14.0. "The Official "Help!", "Looking for...", "Wanted..." Topic" by HUMOR::EPPES (I'm not making this up, you know) Wed Oct 19 1994 19:07

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14.1The Last Place On EarthLOWELL::MIDDLETONJohnWed Oct 19 1994 19:559
14.2ICS::CONROYThu Oct 20 1994 14:2819
14.3They have it...LOWELL::MIDDLETONJohnFri Oct 21 1994 18:516
14.4looking for two booksICS::WALKERFri Nov 11 1994 13:288
14.5The Shining StrangerCAPNET::ROSCHThu Dec 01 1994 15:504
14.6dys_function()MARVA2::BUCHMANUNIX refugee in a VMS worldThu Dec 15 1994 17:268
14.7hooked on AmericaESSB::BREEThu Dec 29 1994 06:4812
14.8The Year Long DayKAOOA::BEAULIEUTue Feb 14 1995 15:3610
14.92 more looking forrs..ICS::WALKERTue Apr 25 1995 15:3021
14.10A possible pointerSWAM1::MILLS_MATo Thine own self be TrueWed Apr 26 1995 14:168
14.11HUMOR::EPPESI'm not making this up, you knowFri Apr 28 1995 20:234
14.12Slovenian Heritage ICSC32::R_DESKORick Desko CSC/CS DTN 592-4613Sat May 13 1995 19:476
14.13"Ah Pook" by William BurroughsMIG25::BROWNINGTue Jul 18 1995 03:098
14.14Trying to buy "Spirit Lost" by Nancy ThayerUFCWH1::PFALSDORFTue Jul 25 1995 11:0216
14.15CASTLE HILL BOOKS IN U.K.31318::KASTENDICKFri Jul 28 1995 18:558
14.16Children's authorsUSCTR1::HSCOTTLynn Hanley-ScottThu Oct 26 1995 09:288
14.17MROA::ROBINSON_Syou have HOW MANY cats??!!Thu Oct 26 1995 16:502
14.18Children's Author 'Emily Chetkowski'WMOIS::BEAUREGARD_DMon Oct 30 1995 12:0723
14.19Can notes be this good?WOTVAX::HARDYPThu Jan 04 1996 09:0218
14.20out of 30 million plus bibliographic recordsRDVAX::ANDREWSmake the Yuletide gayThu Jan 04 1996 10:2511
14.21More please!WOTVAX::HARDYPFri Jan 05 1996 02:4610
14.22Freda Bright/Infidelities ?EEMELI::SCHILDTPirkko SCHILDT @FNOTue Jan 30 1996 08:1612
14.1Wanted: Used copy of Streiker's Who Am I?BOOKIE::MCKAYThe Real McKay, 381-2215Sat Jul 27 1996 13:589
14.2looking for "The Long Run Solution"NETRIX::"gagnonLJ@cosmo.mko.dec.com"L GagnonThu Aug 08 1996 15:4610
14.3A Darkness at Sethanon / Raymond E. FeistALEXWS::GEULAThe Wiz!Sun Aug 11 1996 05:398
14.4Looking for book on Quabbin Reservoir (moved by moderator)SSDEVO::LAMBERTWe ':-)' for the humor impairedTue Sep 03 1996 16:5019
14.5Searching for Solar History BookCSC32::T_CANNARELLAGood Planets Are Hard To FindWed Sep 11 1996 10:5610
14.6Amazon has itONE800::DCOHENLearn direction by indirectionWed Sep 11 1996 13:409
14.7Publication datesNEWVAX::BUCHMANNeolithic UNIX masterMon Sep 16 1996 14:3120
14.8looking for International Collectors Library books TLE::GOONANTue Feb 04 1997 12:3912
    I collect International Collectors Library books. They include a wide
    range of classic titles and have the words International Collectors
    Library at the base of the spine.   I think they were probably
    originally offered through a magazine ad, a volume a month sort of
    thing.  I found several titles at yard sales already and would like to
    get a whole set.  If you have any to sell, please email me at
    TLE::GOONAN.
    
    Thanks,
    Julie          
    
    
14.9boxerFABSIX::S_MCCONNELLWed Feb 05 1997 22:188
    I'm looking for a short story... it's about a boxer who is getting old
    and who is poor.  He has a fight that night and while eating dinner
    gives his steak to his son who is hungry... I don't want to give the
    whole story away in case you havn't read it so I'll stop there.  Anyone
    know the story?
    
    			Thanks
    				Steve
14.10Jack LondonUSMV01::DOUCETTEUse your judgementThu Feb 06 1997 08:205
	It's one of Jack London's short stories. I can't remember the title,
	but I can check it out when I get home tonight.

	Paul
14.11great storyUSMV01::DOUCETTEUse your judgementFri Feb 07 1997 11:235

	A Piece of Steak by Jack London

	Paul
14.12need origin of quotationTLE::GOONANMon Feb 10 1997 11:3511
    I would like to know the origin of the quote that goes
    something like this:
    
      "Time is the fire we burn through"
    
    I don't know if it is from a poem or prose.
    I may have heard it on one of the Joseph Campbell programs.
    
    Thanks,
    Julie 
    
14.13Found it ...YASHAR::RONNIEBDebt Free! Thank You, Jesus!Tue Feb 11 1997 10:2932
    Hi Julie,

    In ALTA VISTA, enter "time is the fire" for a list of references.  The
    original source appears to be the following:


		"Time Is The Fire In Which We Burn"

	Not the least of the torments whish plague our existence is the
	constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw
	breath, but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip.  It
	ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.

				*	*

			To-day I shall be strong,
			No more shall yield to wrong,
			  Shall squander life no more;
			Days lost, I know not how,
			I shall retrieve them now;
			Now I shall keep the vow
			  I never kept before.

				*	*

			     No minute lost
			  Comes ever back again.
			     Take heed and see
			  Ye nothing do in vain.

	(Shopenhauer, A.E. Housman, inscription on the London clock tower)

14.14thanks to ronniebTLE::GOONANTue Feb 11 1997 12:263
    Thanks! A great gothic inscription for a clock tower.
    
    Julie