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Summary: "1, 2, 3, 4 ... Can I have a little more?"
Review: Well, well, well.. A master failed to complete his ultimate work! Where have we heard THAT one before? Let's see... Plato's Timaeus, Joyce's projected 4th major volume after the Wake, Joseph Campbell's Atlas of World Mythology... Oh, dear!Well, it's true. The book does frustrate. Right when you're going to find out 'who did it', the poor man stops writing. Am I detecting a pattern here? (Writers procrastinate and/or are mortal.) Nevertheless, this book is OK. And Gurdjieff gives a particularly instructive exercise for those of you still curious: Pay attention to your right hand. Lay it flat. Begin to count to ten with one finger, while you observe the emotional state of a second finger, while simultaneously observing the physical sensations of a third. IF you enjoy Gurdjieff, and feel just plain stark naked or, worse yet, just not with it (horrors!) without this book on your shelf, THEN do please buy it, do please. Otherwise, I would pick it up off the shelf, buy a coffee, peruse it for a few minutes, and see if it grabs me. The biography is interesting, but "Meetings with Remarkable Men" is better in that regard, and "Views from the Real World" covers alot more psychological territory.
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