Remove Gibran from works read list and add a blurb about him instead

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@@ -18,6 +18,19 @@ mention, but not always recommend, to others.
 His poetry is the result of spending too much time etching copper
 plates and breathing the fumes. Quite wonderful indeed.
 
 His poetry is the result of spending too much time etching copper
 plates and breathing the fumes. Quite wonderful indeed.
 

+** Kahlil Gibran
+
+Kahlil Gibran is fairly interesting; his earlier works do not agree
+with my æsthetic sense (blah blah), but *The Madman* onward are all
+rather nice. So far I've read *A Tear and a Smile* (not so good
+excepting the last poem), *The Madman*, *The Prophet* (both excellent),
+and *Sand and Foam* (an interesting little book of aphorisms). A few of
+his works are [[http://leb.net/~mira/][online]], but I recommend scouting used book stores for
+old hardcover editions. The (late 90s onward at least) *hardcover*
+versions from *Alfred A. Knopf* are in fact permabound paperbacks with a
+hardcasing, and are of seriously inferior quality to the editions from
+the 50s and 60s (and cost quite a bit more, naturally).
+

 * Fiction
 
 ** General
 * Fiction
 
 ** General


@@ -45,9 +58,6 @@ difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time.
 
 ** Philosophical
 
 
 ** Philosophical
 

-*** Khalil Gibran - The Prophet
-
-

 ** Sci-Fi
 
 *** Neal Stephenson
 ** Sci-Fi
 
 *** Neal Stephenson


@@ -76,6 +86,7 @@ as more than mere cyberpunk fiction.
 * Non-Fiction
 
 ** Education
 * Non-Fiction
 
 ** Education

+

 ***  John Taylor Gatto - [[http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm][Underground History of American Education]]
 
 Contained within this book (available online for free, but the printed
 ***  John Taylor Gatto - [[http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm][Underground History of American Education]]
 
 Contained within this book (available online for free, but the printed


@@ -208,6 +219,9 @@ and therefore feel no pangs of moral guilt).
      for ones in good shape).
 
 * Essays
      for ones in good shape).
 
 * Essays

+

 ** Computing
 ** Computing

+

 *** Design
 *** Design

+

 **** [[http://deadhobosociety.com/index.php/Essays/ESSAY12][Confucianism and Technical Standards]]
 **** [[http://deadhobosociety.com/index.php/Essays/ESSAY12][Confucianism and Technical Standards]]