Drinkers of infinity : essays 1955-1967
1968, 1st edition. London : Hutchinson. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425653
ISBN: 0090887603
Physical description: x, 291 pages 22 cm. Contents: Gravity and the holy ghost -- The walls of Jericho -- The greatest scandal in christendom -- Artist on a tightrope -- The age of discretion -- The unreasonable murderer -- The hounourable paradox -- Animals in quarantine -- Dogs, sticks and smugglers -- When the daydream has to stop -- Reflections on a peninsula -- The silent generation -- Culture in explosion -- Words and weapons -- A love affair with Norway -- Drifting on a river -- Tu Felix Austria -- The ubiquitous presence -- Of dogs and men -- Of geese and men -- Of apes and men -- Mysterium tremendum -- The patient's dilemma -- The patient as a guinea pig -- Daughter to Stalin -- Mistress to Picasso -- Books of the years? -- Return trip to Nirvana -- The poverty of psychology -- The daemon of Socrates -- Evolution and revolution -- The wings of analogy -- To covet a swallow -- Darkness at noon and The strangled cry -- Between the lotus and the robot. Subjects: Wilson, Colin 1931-2013. Outsider. Essays English literature. Social sciences Essays. Civilization, Modern. Philosophy, Modern. Essays English literature.
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