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This book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge by providing an extended comparison between his work and
the phenomenological theory of Edmund Husserl. Examining
Coleridge's accounts of the imagination, perception, poetic
creativity and literary criticism, it draws a systematic and
coherent structure out of a range of Coleridge's philosophical
writing. In addition, it also applies the principles of Coleridge's
philosophy to an interpretation of his own poetic output.
This book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge by providing an extended comparison between his work and
the phenomenological theory of Edmund Husserl. Examining
Coleridge's accounts of the imagination, perception, poetic
creativity and literary criticism, it draws a systematic and
coherent structure out of a range of Coleridge's philosophical
writing. In addition, it also applies the principles of Coleridge's
philosophy to an interpretation of his own poetic output.
This travel journal is the seventh book in a series by Tom Marshall
describing experiences he and his wife Elysee have had during their
summer's away from home. Tom and Elysee practice and indorse a
lifestyle captured in the phrase of another of Tom's books, MAKE
THE WORLD YOUR SECOND HOME. Although residing in retirement in
Naples, Florida for the past fourteen years, Tom and Elysee have
yet to spend a summer there. Instead they live in a different place
each year, renting as an option to owning a second home. In the
previous fourteen years they have stayed in Ireland, Australia/New
Zealand, Carmel, California, Slovenia, Annapolis, Md., Estonia,
Boothbay Harbor, Camden Maine and in 2013 Western Europe's three
major capitals Rome, Paris and London. The summer of 2013 broke
with the practice of renting in one place for the entire summer.
Instead The Marshall's rented for seven week in Rome, six weeks in
Paris and five weeks in London, with stop over in Ireland folded
in. In this book Tom describes the activities and events they
encountered and participated in, several day trips taken to places
of interest nearby, and excursions further afield of several days
or more. The book is complimented with many photographs, all of
them taken by Tom. Any reader contemplating an extended visit to
Europe would benefit from reading this book, it provided an
excellent example of contemporary Rome, Paris and London but, most
importantly it testifies to the BIG idea Tom promotes, to Make the
World Your Second Home by renting, instead of buying one
This is the second book by Tom Marshall exploring the benefits of
periodic extended rentals as an alternative to owning a second
home, while providing an example in his travel journal account of a
summer spent in Slovenia. Tom Marshall and his wife Elysee retired
from the business world, moved permemntly to Naples, Florida, and
were faced with the "baby boomer' question of whether to sell their
property up North or keep it as a second residence. The Marshalls
took the unusual decision to sell out and " make the world their
second home." They have traveled every summer to a different part
of the world and established a residence for three or four months.
This exciting travel journel recounts their adventures in and
around Slovenia, including excursions to Hungary, Venice, Italy and
Vienna, Austria. Tom also describes their alternative lifestyle for
retiring baby boomers.
"The risk of a fatal catastrophe was constant. The NVA was the
enemy, but the ultimate opponent was, quite simply, death. . . ."
For assault helicopter crews flying in and around the NVA-infested
DMZ, the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1970-71 was a desperate time
of selfless courage. Now former army warrant officer Tom Marshall
of the Phoenix, C Company, 158th Aviation Battalion, 101st
Airborne, captures the deadly mountain terrain, the long hours
flown under enormous stress, the grim determination of hardened
pilots combat-assaulting through walls of antiaircraft fire, the
pickups amid exploding mortar shells and hails of AK fire, the
nerve-racking string extractions of SOG teams from North Vietnam. .
. . And, through it all, the rising tension as helicopter pilots
and crews are lost at an accelerating pace.
It is no coincidence that the Phoenix was one of the most highly
decorated assault helicopter units in I Corps. For as the American
departure accelerated and the enemy added new, more powerful
antiaircraft weapons, the helicopter pilots, crew chiefs, and
gunners paid the heavy price of withdrawal in blood. For more than
30 Percent of Tom Marshall's 130 helicopter-school classmates, the
price of exit was their lives. . . .
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