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Book Synopsis222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-perfection in Western culture over the last five centuries by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, Kafka, E.M. Cioran, Karl Kraus, Fernando Pessoa, and many others. About four in ten of the entries in 222 consist of conversations between Steven Carter and aphorists of the past, including many of the above. In publishing this initial volume of a projected multi-volume work, Carter hopes to join the ranks of current aphorists and anthologistsJames Richardson and James Geary, to name twowhose recent works help to further the grand tradition of the aphorism, which began in ancient Greece with Hippocrates, the West''s first known aphorist. While 222 is primarily intended for a general college-educated audience, everyone can enjoy a good aphorism-as the Americans Josh Billings, Will Rogers, and especially Mark Twain have shown.
Trade ReviewIn his collection of aphorisms...Steven Carter writes that many of his sayings are ?conversations? with aphorists and thinkers of the past. One aphorist Carter has done a lot of talking to is Ambrose Bierce; Carter penned <l>The New Devil?s Dictionary<l>,a kind of sequel to Bierce?s own <l>The Devil?s Dictionary<l>....he?s acquitted himself well in the few paraphrases of Benjamin Franklin he includes in the introduction.... -- James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
In his collection of aphorisms...Steven Carter writes that many of his sayings are “conversations” with aphorists and thinkers of the past. One aphorist Carter has done a lot of talking to is Ambrose Bierce; Carter penned The New Devil’s Dictionary, a kind of sequel to Bierce’s own The Devil’s Dictionary....he’s acquitted himself well in the few paraphrases of Benjamin Franklin he includes in the introduction. -- James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
