"A Visit with Philip Roth," interview with James Atlas, The New York Times Book Review (2 September 1979), p. BR1
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005)
From the thirteenth book, "The Book of the Dead"
The Pillow Book
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.”
1960s
Mathematical Methods in Science (1977)
Context: The volume of the cone was discovered by Democritus... He did not prove it, he guessed it... not a blind guess, rather it was reasoned conjecture. As Archimedes has remarked, great credit is due to Democritus for his conjecture since this made proof much easier. Eudoxes... a pupil of Plato, subsequently gave a rigorous proof. Surely the labor or writing limited his manuscript to a few copies; none has survived. In those days editions did not run to thousands or hundreds of thousands of copies as modern books—especially, bad books—do. However, the substance of what he wrote is nevertheless available to us.... Euclid's great achievement was the systematization of the works of his predecessors. The Elements preserve several of Eudoxes' proofs.
Variant: No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World.
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
