I want to print a book.
Yes, just print--not publish.
Unfortunately most of my poems have been lost to the world and to myself as well. My Anthology therefore shall have to wait a few more years. Perhaps by the riper quarter-centerian age of 25 I shall have enough to consider publishing.
In the meantime, I want a small reference encyclopedia. A book for me and, in part, about me. Originally it was only to include reference material of various interests of mine. However I decided to expand, as I am likely to get the best rate at the print-shop by commissioning a 500 page book (hard-cover bound, of course).
My draft outline is as follows:
1. Personal Works
1.1 Poetry (with prosaic note of my "lost poems")
1.2 Past & Future Projects (programs, scripts, articles)
1.3 Description of Two Alphabets I Created
1.4 Cyrillizations I Developed for Esperanto, English & Hungarian
1.5 Romantic Interests Recalled (from pre-Kindergarten to Present--yes, I started early.)
1.6 Family Tree (including step-parental branches)
2. Languages
2.1 Esperanto, the International Language (basic rules and mini-dictionaries)
2.2
Elvish Language Descriptions (Quenya & Sindarin) & Dictionary
2.3 Interlingua Synopsis
2.4 Original Interlingua Synopsis
2.5 Volapuk Synopsis
2.6 Degaspragos Synopsis (constructed language with Proto-Indo-European features)
2.7 Laadan Synopsis (feminine oriented language originally created for the book "Native Tongue")
3. Alphabets & Other Scripts
3.1 Inuit Script
3.2 Hungarian Runes
3.3 Albanian Scripts
3.4 Cherokee
3.5 Hangul (Korean)
3.6 Tengwar (Tolkien Elvish)
3.7 Klingon (Marc Okrand's)
3.8 Cyrillic
3.9 Coptic
3.10 Greek
3.11 Hebrew
3.12 Arabic
4. Glossopoesis (Language Creation)
4.1 Vocabulary of Controlled English
4.2 Lexical Semantics by Rick Morneau (remarkable essay!!!)
4.3 Miscellaneous Articles on Various Linguistic Features & Language Construction in General
5. Foreign Language Material
5.1 Esperanto Poems & Stories
5.2 Hungarian Legends & 2 Prayers from the 13th Century
5.3 Kafka's Jackals & Arabs in Original German
5.4 Laadan Sample Stories
6. The Occult & Spiritualism
6.1 Egregores / Spirit Beings Theory
6.2 Numerology (Chaldean, Pythagorean [aka Modern / English], Ogham based)
6.3 Magic Squares & Mathematical Magick
6.4 Enochian Magick (name of guardian angels diagram, language of angels, etc.)
6.5 Listing of Gods from Around the Globe
6.6 Principles of Chaos Magick
6.7 Lucid Dreaming
7. Programming Reference Materials
7.1 HTML
7.2 CSS
7.3 JavaScript
7.4 Microsoft Agent Integration
7.5 Programming Tips & Tricks
7.6 Useful File-Format Specifications
8. Image Gallery
8.1 Family
8.2 Beautiful Cities & Place from Around the World
8.3 Paintings & Art of Interest
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I think I shall very much enjoy putting together this book. I will makes notes of my progress as I go along. I am using Adobe PageMaker 7.0 and will be handing my material as a PDF file to the print-shop.
I would love to hear some thoughts on this. Does all this seem very strange? Or are there others who are not only passively intrigued but may actually want to do something like this?
