What’s New? (Recent Additions)
This page (and website) was last updated on: 20 May 2006
If the date shown above is later than the first date in the list of specifically described changes (below), this means that the last update featured minor maintenance improvements of the site that do not deserve specific mention in the overview on this page.
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Here is a list of the most recent additions:
22 March 2006
 Karl May & Rex Stout profile pages revised
17 March 2006
 Trent’s Last Case (1911) by E. C. Bentley – fulltext
29 August 2005
legacy encodings iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, and koi8-r are abandoned in favour of the UTF-8 Unicode standard encoding. UTF-8 is now uniformly used on all webpages on this site.
1 August 2005
switch to Slovakia’s best provider of site visitors statistics, naj.sk, both for the main and the personal section of the site. Old statistics (March 2003 – July 2005) are still available (main / personal); these original counters today only count hits on the quotations homepage and the personal homepage.
4 June 2005
stylistic facelift of entire site: where serif font is specified (especially on webpages with quotations, literary excerpts), the site will now nearly always display the Georgia font (if available on visitor’s computer). Georgia is more legible and suitable for reading texts on the computer screen than the Times New Roman font to which most browsers would have otherwise defaulted. It is also highly recommended for readers of these webpages to turn on ClearType (if available on their operating system).
24 August 2004
 Девочка, с которой ничего не случится (1965) by Kir Bulychov: file revised & completely Russified
2 May 2004
Rex Stout profile page: ›Looking for Wolfe‹ section updated
10 April 2004
[Posledné interview] (Jozef Dado Nagy, Národná obroda) (2002) by Július Satinský – fulltext
5 January 2004
There is a gap of over 3 years (36 months and 16 days) between this and the previous official update of the site (20 December 2000). In the meantime, however, silent work in the background of the site was continuing, so that the result in January 2004 is a major overhaul of the entire site’s design and operation. The HTML code on all currently existing 187 webpages (their list is in the Site Map) has been re-written. All webpages have been and continue to be regularly checked for syntactical correctness and simplicity of the underlying code; the code of many webpages (especially alphabetical index pages and pages with the “bubble design” such as the one you’re currently viewing) has been streamlined and re-written nearly from scratch, resulting in a faster loading time. The web site now performs equally in all three major browsers (Opera, Mozilla, and Explorer).
To observe the nature of changes and the degree of expansion of this site compared to December 2000, you may download a zip file (138 KB) containing old versions of 5 webpages in their archived status as of December 2000, and then compare the archived files with the present outlook of those same 5 webpages: Introduction, Site Map, Mottoes, Complete List of Quoted Works, and Rex Stout (1886–1975). To perform the comparison, unpack all the files and folders from the zip file into any directory of your choice, then open the "old_avenarius_sk" folder and simply double-click the following five files: intro.htm, map.htm, mottoes.htm, works.htm, and (in the "stout" folder) index.htm. Perhaps the most conspicuous change beside the expanded content is the increased and systematic usage of cascading style sheets throughout the site today.
The earlier site address www.avenarius.net and the initial ad-sponsored Tripod location (USA), http://aavenarius.tripod.com, were discontinued in late 2001. A consistent cross-referencing system has been implemented; read more about it on the Introduction page. In March 2003, Site Visitors Statistics (new / old provider) was set up for both the main (new / old provider) and the personal (new / old provider) section of the site; there is also a live access-log.
Following is a list of files that, as of today (5 January 2004), become official additions to the site – although many of them were unofficially and silently added to the site at an earlier point of time during the 36-months hiatus:
Im Lande des Mahdi II (1892/3) by Karl May
Rex Stout profile page: major overhaul and expansion of the webpage’s content by about 400%
Introduction to Avenarius’ Book of Quotations: major overhaul and expansion of the webpage
Mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations: greatly expanded content, and merger with a former webpage, ›Mottoes (in Russian)‹
Karl May profile page: expanded and updated content
Vorrede zur ersten Auflage von Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1818) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Vorrede zur zweiten Auflage von Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1844) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Vorrede zur dritten Auflage von Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1859) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Selbstdenken (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Ueber die Weiber (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Ueber Lerm und Geräusch (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Ueber Lesen und Bücher (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Ueber Schriftstellerei und Stil (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Zur Physiognomik (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Education (1864) by Ralph Waldo Emerson – fulltext
Najkrajšia rozprávka na svete (1974) by Ľubomír Feldek – fulltext
Stratená princezná (1974) by Ľubomír Feldek – fulltext
Úvodná rozprávka o tom, prečo sa táto kniha volá Modrá kniha rozprávok (1974) by Ľubomír Feldek – fulltext
Dvadsiaty piaty list Slovákom, v ktorom je reč o tom, či čítame (1991) by Július Satinský – fulltext
Conversations with God, Volume III – chapter 6 (1998) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
Neale Donald Walsch on Larry King Live (2000): Avenarius’s transcript of a CNN interview – fulltext
Seizing Your Moment of Grace (2000) by Neale Donald Walsch – full text of the final chapter in Communion with God
The New Revelations: Talking Points (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
What Is Humility? (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
Fear: The Great Attractor (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
Is There Negativity in Wanting? (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
Beingness to Doingness (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
 various quotations from the Bible
various quotations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 Verzeichnis von eingescannten Sascha-Schneider-Bildern
quotations by various authors: letter F
quotations by various authors: letter H
quotations by various authors: letter J
quotations by various authors: letter K
quotations by various authors: letter P
quotations by various authors: letter V
 Rex Stout on the Information, Please radio quiz show (29 August 1939) – full-length audio recording
Rex Stout on Sherlock Holmes stories (1939) – audio
Rex Stout on beards and moustaches (1939) – audio
Fer-de-Lance (1934) by Rex Stout – file deleted, later reset and restored in truncated form (read why)
Too Many Cooks (1938) by Rex Stout – file deleted, later reset and restored in truncated form (read why)
The Black Mountain (1954) by Rex Stout – file deleted, later reset and restored in truncated form (read why)
Reading Nero Wolfe Stories On the Internet?
What Is a Plog? [non-JavaScript version]
Disclaimer – External Links [non-JavaScript version]
Plus, Avenarius’s personal section of the site has been expanded to include many new files whose complete listing can be found on the Site History webpage.
To view a list of earlier additions
to Avenarius’ Book of Quotations,
go to Site History.
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The quotations files on whose conversion, as well as first-time inclusion, I’m working at the moment, include:
Karl May’s Volume III of the trilogy Im Lande des Mahdi; May’s autobiography Mein Leben und Streben; and the four volumes of Winnetou
Rex Stout’s Death Times Three, Death of a Dude, Plot It Yourself, Black Orchids, Over My Dead Body, and If Death Ever Slept
Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield
Marcel Reich-Ranicki’s (Hrsg.) Anbruch der Gegenwart and Verteidigung der Zukunft
John E. Esslemont’s Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era
Il’ya Il’f’s and Yevgeniy Petrov’s Двенадцать стулев [Dvenadtsat’ stulyev]
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays
Jan Amos Komenský’s Labyrint světa a ráj srdce
Hermann Hesse’s Der Steppenwolf
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
Kir Bulychov’s Река Хронос [Ryeka Khronos]
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, or, The Whale
Buddha’s Dhammapada [tr]
Bahá’u’lláh’s Hidden Words [tr]
Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking
Július Satinský’s fejtóny and his miscellaneous quotations
Neale Donald Walsch’s three volumes of Conversations With God
Gottfried Benn’s Leben ist Brückenschlagen
The ultimate aim is, one day, to offer online every single quotation that has been entered into Avenarius’ Book of Quotations since 1992. At the same time, never-before-published collections of quotations will be continually added to the website. The editor’s original notes and commentaries will be made available as well – in plog files. Each plog file is cross-referenced, via electronic links, to the main text of quotations (and vice versa). Yet new commentaries and notes may at any time be appended to old ones as the site’s contents continually expand.
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Currently (April 2004) I’m still in the beginning stages of building the site. The basic structure of what’s being built can already be seen – what is still missing is some solid content to fill that structure!
I’ve been collecting quotations since 1992. For the most time, I’ve been appending my own informal on-the-fly commentaries, notes and analyses to the quotations I recorded. Today, these notes can be found on this web site in plog files that are appended to the corresponding quotations files.
I started out by copying quotations manually; in 1995 I switched to an electronic typewriter. Another change came in 1997 when I switched to a computer: the quotations then took the form of neat Word for Windows documents. (For more details on the off-line history of the project, see the Introduction page.)
July 2000 meant another re-birth for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations: it went online.
Unfortunately, it’s impossible to switch from Word for Windows files (let alone manuscripts) to HTML files (that is, webpages) automatically without loss of the quality HTML code that has become standard for this site. This means that currently I need to work on these particular transitions, which is time-consuming but will one day make available online all quotations assembled electronically since 1997, as well as all the other quotations assembled since 1992, along with dozens of thousands of brand new ones.
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