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Hammond Guthrie’s Ten Favorite Books

Hammond Guthrie

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1. The I Ching or Book of Changes (original translation)

2. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation)

3. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

4. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac

5. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller

6. The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller

7. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

8. Ulysses / Finnegans Wake (as a 2 Vol. entry) by James Joyce

9. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

10. The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk

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Hammond Guthrie

Hammond Guthrie (April 4, 1948–October 1, 2019) was the author of AsEverWas..Memoirs of a Beat Survivor and editor of The 3rd Page: A Journal of Ongrowing Natures. He was recently an associate editor for Jorvik Press.

A painter and writer, the artist found his feet in the underground community when he collaborated with a number of luminaries, including Del Close, Philo T. Farnsworth III; son of the inventor of television, 'Hube the Cube' Leslie, Liam O'Gallagher, William Burroughs, John 'Hoppy' Hopkins, and Robert Jasper Grootveld, mentor for the Provos.

Author: Hammond Guthrie Tags: Hammond Guthrie, top ten Category: Your Top Ten Books May 6, 2013

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