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...forces the eye off the page and into the contemplative middle distance; it takes a moment's time to decide whether the author has skewered a truth or merely shaken it up. The collectors have selected from the great aphorists such as G. K. Chesterton and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, but also from such little-known men of perception as Claude Bernard and the late Cesare Pavese...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 elected its officers for 1960-61 last Tuesday. The new president is Thomas L. Delbanco '61, of Kirkland House and Larchmont, New York. Vice-president is Thomas S. Bodenheimer '61, of Kirkland House and Salt Lake City, Utah; secretary, James L. Lichtenberg '62, of Kirkland House and Washington D.C.; and treasurer, Robert C. Kogan '62, of Kirkland House and New Rochelle, New York...
...There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books." wrote Georg Lichtenberg, an 18th century German aphorist. "Printed by people who don't understand them, sold by people who don't understand them, bound, criticized, and read by people who don't understand them, and now even written by people who don't understand them." A look at the current bestseller list (see p. 84) gives Lichtenberg the air of a prophet. The fiction crop is one of the poorest in years. Items...
After years of an English acceptance of the Germans as a darkly brooding people, this Lichtenberg collection comes as an enlightening influence. Let this fact be no determining factor, however, in one's interest in Lichtenberg. Though writing during the Enlightenment, he is definitely oriented towards the modern world. What Lichtenberg has to say about his own day is quite applicable to our own: "Man is so perfectible and corruptible that he can become a madman through sheer intellect...
Although the Lichtenberg Reader is but an introduction to this immensely interesting character, it should stimulate a new regard for Lichtenberg as a representative of an unknown side of German literature...