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To Print a Book...

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?

May 7, 2002 | 11:56 PM Comments  0 comments
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Shaboboo jen b
May 8, 2002 | 5:19 PM

wow you've got a large variety of stuff going into that book. Sounds like fun :)
lisajh Lisa Hallman
May 31, 2002 | 1:31 AM
All Planned
Seems like you've got it all planned out. I didn't realize you were so talented. :-)
Angel_on_broomstick Ha Thi Lan Anh
June 13, 2002 | 12:33 PM

WOW! u must be REAl brainy! ;) sure u gotta have loz of joy putting together that book :)
dltq Raymond M. Kristiansen
June 14, 2002 | 5:46 AM
interesting
when reading about how your poems were lost I remembered my own lost writings.

When I was 14 or so, I was very involved with the whole Role-Playing Games scene. When I was asked to prepare a scenario for AD&D for three months later, me and my two co-GameMasters got to work and created not only a scenario set in some Forgotten Realms world or whatever, but created our own island society set in another world. My co-GM's lost interest in developing the world further after the scenario had been played at the local RPG club, but I went on with it, developing not only an extensive mythology, but also language, customs, history and so on and so on.

4 years later, in 1996, I had written over 3000 pages of notes (hand-written, as I didnt have a computer then), and I had gotten some artist friends to make illustrations, and I was about to get ready to launch WOTU (World Of The Unknown) as a public project, meaning that I would give others the opportunity to develop the world further. But I first wanted to finish the first couple of campaigns, set in the island kingdom of Kralan (yes, I know, those always present island kingdoms). But on a dreadful night in august 1996 after having been at a meeting with an artist in Copenhagen, I went to Roskilde to go and drink some. I ended up being totally wasted, and woke up next morning at 9 AM in some basement, With my wallet, with my money, but without my bag with all the material. I had lost it all. There were only scraps of years old material left.

After i moved from Denmark back to Norway in 1997, I further lost some more material, and by now in 2002 all I have left is whatever I managed to put online some years ago, which is online here.

So, I know how it is to have lost things you have written. It hurts, much more than losing money or books or whatever.. Hmm.


Your book project sounds very interesting, and I don't think it sounds strange at all. I wish more people had projects like this - to use the modern technology which gives them such possibilities to - for instance - create an .pdf file complete with layout, pictures, foreword and etc, and print it for personal pleasure and for a few friends. I have thought about doing something similar for some years. Not exactly with the same topics as yours (well, last year wanted to make an alternative magazine with a different view on occultism (less abracadabra, more art)) but something which I could work on at my own leisure, publish online, get feedback, and then work on further, untill I felt satisfied and wanted to print it. Bind it in leather in 10 copies or whatever, and give those copies to my best friends.. Hehe..

Since the beginning of the 90's I have also been interested in Numerology.. As you can see, my homepage www.ecich.net is inspired by the magic square of Luo Shu (in western tradition often referred to as the Square of Saturn). The Luo Shu numerology is an ancient chinese system which have important links to the Yin-Yang philosophy, and further had an immense importance for the arts in China. I have a book, written by a Swedish academic from Lund, about the Luo Shu, but it is his doctoral thesis (my grandmother knows him), and it's difficult to get further copies.. :(

Anyway, I am looking forward to reading your thoughts on numerology, magic squares and the Enochian magic. (I have long been interested in renaissance science/magic for some years, and yesterday night I gobbled down Knowledge is Power, a book about the importance of Francis Bacon to Modern science.)

Oh, a last link is to my page on Esoteric issues, and a small list of esoteric works.

Good luck with your project!

(disclaimer: I am not a satanist, neither a socalled occultist, and I hate the new age wave. However, I am fond of different perspectives on issues.) :)
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