... on The Never-ending Stories. (Hat tip, Judith Fitzgerald.)
Peter is right about the 1911 Britannica - the great edition. I suppose if I were to pick "a single book at the start of everything," it would be the Tao te ching.
Update: Here's a beautiful Tao te ching poster.
(Post has been bumped up.)
Hrm . . . Sir Peter's go-to volume (which he described physically in an earlier post on his Blog, IIRC, as being a drabbily modest brown) — or, was that Dion Per Sona? — predominantly deals with the secular; your selection involves the sacred in all its glory (and, although you've probably seen it, Mantis Designs has created a gorgeous poster with a lovely bit of text to accompany your "start of everythinger"), Frank:
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S'pose if I were allowed one from each sphere, I'd take A Course in Miracles alongside Finnegans Wake (which is commodiusly encylopaedic in its own right, intentionally so).
(Why do I have this guilty feeling someone shall be along shortly to tell us the only book worthy of this designation is the Bible? Prolly b/cuz it comes with a practising Catholic's job descrip . . . <*sigh*> . . ..)
Oh, I wouldn't worry about Catholics thumping for the Bible. The complaint about when I was growing up Catholic was that we didn't read the Bible. By the way, that poster is gorgeous.
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