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The Best Book of All Times... A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust's - In Search of Lost Time

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In Search of Lost Time by  Marcel Proust Swann's Way, the first part of A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust's seven-part cycle, was published in 1913. In it, Proust introduces the themes that run through the entire work. The narrator recalls his childhood, aided by the famous madeleine; and describes M. Swann's passion for Odette. The work is incomparable. Edmund Wilson said "[Proust] has supplied for the first time in literature an equivalent in the full scale for the new theory of modern physics." Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time, originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Famous Quotes:  * If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. * T

Achieving financial independence at 35

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About Steve Adcock Contact Me  |  See My Projects Both my wife and I worked information technology jobs for over a decade before completely changing our outlook on life and saving 70% of what we earned to  retire to a life full of travel and adventure . Instead of spending eight to 10 hours a day in an office, we spend it out hiking trails, boating lakes and visiting breweries. I am an  entrepreneur  and  writer . A fitness buff and lover of Netflix originals. I have fun with whatever I do and don’t look back after blazing a new trail. I write about  healthy selfishness  and the wisdom behind putting yourself first to build a solid foundation on which to help others, get involved and make a positive difference in our communities. My story, in brief I worked a 14-year career in information technology , got tired of the grind and decided, along with my wife, to save almost everything that we earned and  retire to a life of travel and adventure  rather than office work. Our salaries were

José Argüelles - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - And a New (Old) Time - Dreamspell - Noosphere

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José Argüelles , born  Joseph Anthony Argüelles  ( / ɑːr ˈ ɡ w eɪ . ɪ s / ; January 24, 1939 – March 23, 2011), [1] [2]  was an American  New Age   author  and  artist . He was the co-founder, along with Lloydine Argüelles, of the  Planet Art Network  and the  Foundation for the Law of Time . As one of the originators of the  Earth Day  concept, Argüelles founded the first  Whole Earth Festival  in 1970, at  Davis, California . He is best known for his leading role in organizing the 1987  Harmonic Convergence , for inventing (with the assistance of his wife Lloydine) the perpetual  Dreamspell  calendar in 1990, [3]  and for the central role that he played in the emergence of the  2012 phenomenon . Towards the end of his life, Argüelles focused on issue of  consciousness , elaborating the concept of a  noosphere  (based on the work of  Teilhard de Chardin  and  Vladimir Vernadsky ) as a global work of art. Specifically, he envisioned a " rainbow  bridge" encircling the  Earth

Jacques Cousteau and British Army Major Percy Fawcett - Indiana Jones and Sherlock Homes

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The real-life Percy Fawcett is said to have been  one of the inspirations for the Indiana Jones character .  Percy Harrison Fawcett   DSO  (18 August 1867 –  during or after  1925) was a British  geographer ,  artillery officer ,  cartographer ,  archaeologist , and  explorer  of South America. Fawcett disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of Jack's friends, Raleigh Rimell) during an expedition to find " Z "—his name for an ancient  lost city  which he and others believed existed in the  jungles of Brazil . [1] Percy Fawcett was born on 18 August 1867 in  Torquay ,  Devon , England, to  Edward Boyd Fawcett  and Myra Elizabeth (née MacDougall). [2]  Fawcett received his early education at  Newton Abbot  Proprietary College, alongside the sportsman and journalist  Bertram Fletcher Robinson . Fawcett's father, who had been born in India, was a Fellow of the  Royal Geographical Society  (RGS), while his elder brother,  Edward Douglas Fawcett  (1866