US Copyright's "Weird Window"

[jeff_duntemann]

US copyright terms are more complex than they should be-everybody seems to agree on that but Big Media. Here's a nice short summary that I have presented before. What's interesting is what happens in a sort of weird window between 1923 and 1963. Books published in that window bearing a legal

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[sraun]

FYI, Baen has published all the John Grimes books in e-books - your choice of formats are multi-file HTML, RTF, LIT, Mobipocket & Rocket.

The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism

[apostle_of_eris]

At the moment, AbeBooks has seven copies, two under $40, one of which sounds pretty good.

We may have an overlap of interests here. It seems to me clear that the mystical experience does exist. Too many independent reports agree too well. I am way more open to alternate explanations both of the phenomenon and its significance.

Re: The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism

[jeff_duntemann]

Yes. They're out there, but I've encountered a sort of Curse of the Cat People here: Twice I've ordered it from meatspace bookstores who don't keep a clean database, and a week later I get notified that the book was sold before I ordered it. Foo. This has happened before with other books, and is just a hazard of the used book world, but I've never had it happen twice for the same book.

I take certain paranormal phenomena seriously (though hardly everything) and have read a lot about it, particularly poltergeists, which are probably the best-documented of any species of weirdness. My mother had a mystical turn of mind, some of which I've inherited, and I've experienced just enough weirdness myself to feel like it would be dishonest to say that there's nothing to it.