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...future and the leaders of the past. Thanatologist Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross tells followers she speaks with the dead. A new edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than 100,000 copies in Europe. In every epoch of social confusion, concludes this entertaining history of folly, "the show goes on. The spirits are willing, and the flesh is weak.'' -By Stefan Kanfer
...what went into the heads of the Byzantine elite." Having spent many years analyzing the first tier and its complexities. Sevcenko says that he is now studying the thinking of the so-called "second tier" of citizens below the elite--the sort "that determines the character of an epoch...
...Violence, the Absurd and Frustrations. Together they should engender enough insomnia for a lifetime. Instead, precisely the opposite occurs. For in the vastness of sleep, all countries are contiguous and all generations contemporary, their nightly symbols-animals, the sensation of flight, erotic pursuits-varying little from the pre-Christian epoch to the present. That disclosure makes this nightmarish, violent, absurd and frustrating book oddly reassuring: a flawed compendium, but an ideal companion for the bedside...
...intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting...
...encyclopedia of wisdom. Eastern European sayings have always assumed the clarity and force of vodka: "Where the needle goes, the thread follows"; "The devil pours honey into other men's wives"; "The Russian has three strong principles: perhaps, somehow and never mind." In the epoch of the Romanoffs, wisdom was the only thing that was shared equally. Cossacks who conducted pogroms and victims in the shtetls flavored their remarks with the same sour salt. Russian: "The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food." Yiddish: "If the rich could hire others to die for them...