Golf in the Kingdom [First Edition Thus]
Murphy, Michael
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Add to basketSold by The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 30 November 2006
Condition: Used - Fine
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Add to basketScarce near fine first printing of the 1994 issue. Stated at copyright: "First published in 1994 by Viking Penguin. Copyright Michael Murphy, 1972." Full number-line beginning with 1. Frontispiece features the classic painting: "'Hell,' from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. Shivas Iron claimed that Bosch played an early form of golf called kolven. This painting, he said, depicts the agonies the painter saw on those early golf courses." Michael Murphy tells a semi-autobiographical story of a young traveler who stumbles upon a mystical golfing expert while in Scotland. The setting for Murphy's inspiration was Bandon Dunes along the Pacific in Oregon. Murphy blends golf instruction with spiritual and philosophical insights and features fictional appearances from numerous historical thinkers of note including John Paul Sartre. "Golf in the Kingdom" is a classic must-read for both leisure and professional golfers. In addition to literary success, this title has strongly influenced many varied athletes and coaches. Phil Jackson is of one particular note among readers and is the most successful coach in NBA history. "Golf is of all games the most mystical, the least earthbound, the one wherein the walls between us and the supernatural are rubbed thinnist. There is much wit and good will in 'Golf in the Kingdom'" - John Updike, The New Yorker. Contents: "Part I: Shivas Irons - A Footnote Regarding His Name; Golf in the Kingdom; Singing the Praises of Golf; Seamus MacDuff's Baffing Spoon; We Are All Kites in That Wind; Epilogue. Part II: The Game's Hidden but Accessible Meaning - Golf as a Journey; The Whiteness of the Ball; The Mystery of the Hole; Replacing the Divot; A Game for the Multiple Amphibian; Of a Golf Shot on the Moon; The Inner Body - A. As Experience; B. As Fact; C. As Luminous Body; Some Notes on True Gravity; Occult Backlash; A Golfer's Zodiac; Hogan and Fleck in the 1955 U. S. Open; A Harmartiology of Golf [Redemption in Golf] - How the Swing Reflects the Soul; The Rules of the Game (and how they are related to Fairy Dust); On Keeping Score (Including a thought on how Shivas Irons helped the British Empire dwindle); The Pleasures of Practice - Keeping Your Inner Eye on the Ball; Blending; Becoming One Sense Organ; The Value of Negative Thoughts (Turning the evil urge toward God); On Breakthroughs (The greatest breakthrough is taking forever); Against Our Ever Getting Better; The Game is Meant for Walkin'; Visualizing the Ball's Flight - How Images Become Irresistible Paths; Shivas Irons' History of the Western World (With some predictions regarding full flight in true gravity, the luminous body, knowledge of the cracks in space-time, and universal transparency); The Crooked Golden River; A List of People Who Knew; The Higher Self; Relativity and the Fertile Void; Universal Transparency and a Solid Place to Swing from; Humans Have Two Sides (The psychology of left and right, the myth of the fall and the need to collapse); His Ideal (The twentieth century is a koan, but that is a very good thing; from a chameleon on a tartan plaid to life in the contemplative one); A Postscript: The Dance of Shiva; and, a Bibliography for the Reconstructed Golfer." Since 1972 this book has sold over a million copies and been translated into nineteen languages. Printed in the United States of America. 219 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
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