User's Guide for the Gurdjieff Spreadsheet Concordance. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Important technical note --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Important! The spreadsheet contains 65536 rows. Some spreadsheet programs will give you a message that the spreadsheet exceeded the maximum number of rows. However, if the spreadsheet that you are viewing has 65536 rows, you have the entire spreadsheet. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Copyright information --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Copyright Steven Ryan 2017 The accompanying spreadsheet (a compilation of terms) "Gurdjieff_Spreadsheet_Concordance.csv," and this user's guide, are both my own creation. I did not pay for or receive any assistance from anyone in the process of creating the spreadsheet or this user's guide. I compiled the terms for the spreadsheet one letter at a time over a period of a couple of years. No one paid me to do this or compensated me in any way whatsoever. I actively dedicate the accompanying spreadsheet "Gurdjieff_Spreadsheet_Concordance.csv" and this user's guide into the public domain this day of December 1, 2017 in any country of the world. You may do just as you please with both of them without restriction, and without consulting me. Would you like to put it on your own web site and share it with others, or put an improved version there? You can do that. There are a lot of terms that I compiled—so many that it would be good form for me to provide assurance that my effort was authentic. I still have the sheets of paper on which I first listed each term. I also still have all of the data input spreadsheets (with terms for four pages of a volume in each spreadsheet). Most of the terms I listed while commuting, riding public transportation. If people found my behavior unusual, very few ever indicated this. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Introduction --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Question: Do you know how to read music? Answer: Yes, but not enough to hurt my playing. From memory, from a banjo instruction book by Pete Seeger. I mainly intended to make the spreadsheet for my own use. I am making it available for use by others. I don't expect that someone would spend an inordinate amount of time surrounding oneself with ideas, and I would not want the spreadsheet to be used for that kind of a purpose. The spreadsheet is certainly no substitute for the actual works of Gurdjieff. The spreadsheet does not even form sentences. It also is missing words like "not," so it can't be used to tell whether a particular sentence is saying the opposite of what one would expect by staring at the spreadsheet. It is also missing many, sometimes most, of the words of a typical sentence. After all, most words in many sentences glue concepts together and show how they relate to each other, rather than being the concepts themselves. The spreadsheet is intended as a tool for those who have read All and Everything at least three times all the way through, faithfully following Gurdjieff's instructions about how to read his works. Its purpose is to allow you to occasionally find the information that you are looking for, as part of a larger process of forming an understanding of your own. As I recall, some would say that understanding comes from life experience. Please understand that this spreadsheet contains mistakes. This is true in spite of my efforts at: --checking the data --balancing the amount of data present at the start and end of each step in its creation, and --using data processing techniques to pinpoint errors and inconsistencies. One could also discuss whether it contains quirks. I do not care to address these issues. Also, I will not be making further corrections or refinements to the spreadsheet. Rather, it seems to me that the only productive way forward to make the spreadsheet more accurate would be a team review process. Please do not take my efforts as an endorsement. I have had some experience with that, and I experience it as very saddening. Wouldn't it be great to act on what you want, rather than on what someone else is doing... I don't actually recommend that people study Gurdjieff. In much the same way, I don't recommend that people acquire a deer rifle. Owning one is a lot of responsibility twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week, you have to keep it away from the kids, you have to learn how to use it, you can hurt yourself or others badly with it, and you might even want to take some time away from it and get a life. (See instructions toward the end of the third volume about taking a rest.) However, if you have already read Gurdjieff three times all the way through in the manner incidated, it seems to me that you would already be very involved in a process. It could well be that the only way forward would be to continue what you have started. There are other choices for you, rather than to use the spreadsheet. There is at least one other concordance, or index, available on line. It might be a very good idea to “go the whole hog” and get another reference in addition to this spreadsheet. After all, an attempt to index Gurdjieff's works is an enormous undertaking. Authenticity, accuracy, and completeness would be important issues. If you acquire two or more such attempts, you could: 1 – check them against each other, 2 – use the one that is the most convenient or appropriate at the time, and also 3 – have access to the same reference that your associates are using. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** The spreadsheet --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** The idea of the spreadsheet is this: "If you happen to think it, you can find it." In fact, as you get some practice using the spreadsheet, it should become possible to find the information you are looking for very quickly. Perhaps it will no longer be necessary for finding sentences in his first three volumes to be a hit and miss, arduous exercise. In this user's guide, “search” means to use the spreadsheet program's “find” feature. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** How to Use the Spreadsheet, in a Nutshell --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Here are a couple of high level concepts about the spreadsheet: 1) Terms listed in the spreadsheet tend to be roots of words Alert!! The terms in the spreadsheet tend to be the roots of words, not necessarily the word itself. This is done so that there will not be multiple versions of the same word in a filter list or in the list of terms on the left of the spreadsheet. In particular, instead of the past tense of a verb, the spreadsheet will use the present tense. The present perfect tense ("giving," etc.) is generally left as is. Also, adverbs generally do not appear in the spreadsheet. In their place, the adjective form of the word usually appears. This is done so that like terms will sort and filter together. Here are some examples: Not But rather won win actively active sparingly sparing pelted pelt 2) Locations The location shown for the sentence is the location that the sentence is about. Therefore, if the sentence is about Paris or something that happened in Paris, the location shown will be Paris, and not France or Europe. At the end of this users guide is a location cross reference. You might find it to be helpful sometimes. 3) Which words from Gurdjieff are presented The spreadsheet contains approximately 144,300 occurrences of terms. (These are terms that appear in the list on the left or in the list of terms on the right). The spreadsheet does not contain all the words from each sentence. Rather, it contains only those words that: a) a reader would tend to remember b) might help you to find the sentence that you are looking for, or c) might help you to decide that a particular sentence is the one that you are looking for. 4) Capitalization It would not be viable for you to look through a list of words in which the same word appears sometimes capitalized and sometimes not. Therefore, I had to make a choice for each word about whether to capitalize it or not. I decided to use all lower case unless there is a good reason why the term should be capitalized. What I did contains errors. Here are some errors: —a word might be capitalized consistently in the text, but I left it uncapitalized. —"God" is capitalized, even if the meaning is "god" as in "gods and idols." —TRUE and FALSE seem to have been capitalized by the spreadsheet program that I used. You can quickly correct this in your own copy. —Earth is capitalized, even if the meaning is "earth" in reference to soil. 5) The DNQ column It appears that Gurdjieff did not define a term very often. However, sometimes a sentence will define a term. I count that there are only 39 such sentences among all three volumes. There are also terms that appear in the text within quotation marks. Many of these quoted terms contain only one word. If a term in quotes contains a number of words, and is not very long (about half the width of the page) I tried to include it as a term in the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet contains 4094 of these quoted terms. The quoted terms appear with a "Q" in the DNQ column. So if you remember that a particular term did or did not appear in the book in quotes, you can filter for that. If a term appears in the text in quotes, and also was defined in the sentence, I had to make a choice. I chose to show them with a Q in the DNQ column, rather than a "D." I did this because Gurdjieff did not emphasize defining terms in his volumes. As a result, there are only 17 terms that appear with a "D" in the DNQ column. If a term was neither defined nor appeared in quotes, I showed it with a "N" (neither) in the DNQ column. Because the letter “N” is present when neither a “D” nor a “Q” is present, you can filter for an “N” in the DNQ column. 6) The "Term" column The terms on the left (the "Term" column) are ones that would apparently be the most helpful for finding a particular sentence. However, if a term appears many, many times in the book, it would not be helpful, and I omitted it from the column on the left. To see how many of the terms were used in the list on the left, see how many rows there are in the spreadsheet. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** My qualifications --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** I choose not to describe my background with Gurdjieff's ideas. Rather, the proof is in the pudding. I can say that I have had professional experience using computer systems to organize and report facts. I have also had a career in various accounting roles. So good or bad, at least the spreadsheet was created by someone with professional skills. If the spreadsheet helps others to understand and live their life, that's all I could ask. Attempting to give back what I can as a response to Mr. Nyland's help seems like the least that I could ever do. Steve Ryan --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Tutorial and quick start guide --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** The spreadsheet allows you to: —filter —find terms, and —sort. The place of a sentence or sentence fragment in a volume is shown as Volume-Page-Quadrant-sentence number-sentence part. For example, “2-251-2-1-2” means: Volume 2 Page 251 Quadrant 2 Sentence 1 Sentence part 2 A sentence part is a way of allowing you to quickly find which place in a long sentence the term is found. If a term appears in the same sentence multiple times, only its first appearance will be shown in the spreadsheet. Examples of how to find a sentence Here are some examples. The examples are designed to demonstrate using each of the columns of the spreadsheet. Examples of searches and flters: Filtering Filter for term “Zilnotrago” and speaker “captain” Result: four rows. He mentions Zilnotrago in the first volume, and also in the second. 2-251-2-1-2 1-56-3-2-1 1-56-4-1-1 1-57-1-1-1 Filter for term “slugs” and speaker “Hassein” Result: 1-79-2-2-1 Filter for term “Ahoon” and speaker “Narrator” Search for “tail” (that is, use the spreadsheet find feature to find the word “tail” Result: 2-41-1-1-1 Filter for term “fold” and speaker “Bez” Results: 2-199-4-3-1 2-62-1-1-3 Filter for term “bury,” location “Mars,” and speaker “Bez” Result: one row 1-206-2-2-1 Filter for term “hypnotist,” speaker “Bez,” and descent “6” Result: seven rows such as 2-167-4-2-1 Filter for term “lion” and era “Atlantis” Result: two rows such as 1-309-1-1-1 Filter for all occurrences of the term “being-Partkdolg-duty” Result: 32 rows such as 1-104-2-1-1 Filter for a chapter by title Filter for speaker “Narrator” and term “impudent” The result is a chapter title: 1-79-1-1-1 Filter for term “tail” and speaker “Narrator” Result: three rows, including 3-351-2-3-1 enter kesshah cool extreme decrepit tail little liquid Filter for all defined terms that do not appear inside quotation marks. Filter for DNQ = “D” Result: 17 rows including 2-159-2-1-1 hanbledzoin blood Kesdjan body Filter for term “so-and-so” Result: one row 2-192-4-3-1: saying so-and-so-this-must-be-it Filter for term “astralnomian.” 1) To be specific, pick astralnomonian-defteroëhary in the list of terms to filter by. Result: astralnomonian-defteroëhary 2-380-4-2-3 2) or pick astralnomonian-protoëhary in the list of terms to filter by. Result: two rows including 2-380-4-1-2 harnelmiatznel local character transmute time called protoëhary astralnomonian-protoëhary lung Filter for term “dionosk” Results: eight rows, including 3-108-2-1-1 two dionosk intersystem ship Karnak resume falling Use the location cross reference to consider possible locations for a sentence you are looking for. Example one: Find a society whose name contains the term “equal” and is located somewhere in Asia. Filter for term “equal” Then use the location cross reference to consider various places (countries, regions, and cities) in Asia. One of the locations shown after filtering for term “equal” is “Mosulopolis,” which is a city in Asia. Therefore, also filter by location “Mosulopolis.” Results: The spreadsheet now shows six rows. “The-Earth-Is-Equally-Free-for-All” is shown on three of them, such as 3-286-3-1-1. Example two: Find a sentence using the term “language” that is located somewhere in Russia. Filter for term “language” Look for location “Russia” and see that there are no rows with the term “language” and the location “Russia”. Notice that there is a location “Saint Petersburg“ in the filter list. Use the location cross reference to see that Saint Petersburg is in Russia. So then the sentence that contains the term “language” and has a location “Saint Petersburg“ is the one that is desired. Results: 2-209-3-1-1 Searching Search for a chapter by page number First sort on page number. Then find 1-79 Results: impudent brat Hassein End of tutorial and quick start guide --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Location cross reference --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** The location cross reference shows all of the locations mentioned in the three volumes. It can be used to decide which term to use for fltering and searching. For example, you can use it when you know that a sentence was about something that took place on a continent somewhere, but you do not remember the exact term used in the sentence. That is, the location cross reference can show you each region, country, town, and district that is in that continent. ***It is important to use a fixed-width font with a rather small font size (like 9) to show this list. *** Location Place in IsAWhat Continent Other (Region, Country City District book Planet, Sea) Afghanistan 2-118-3-1-1 Country Asia X Africa 3-323-4-2-1 Continent X America 3-116-3-1-1 Country North America X Arguenia 1-226-2-2-1 City Asia Maralpleicie X Ashhark 1-209-2-2-1 Continent X Asia 3-153-3-1-1 Continent X Atlantis 1-110-3-3-1 Continent X Avazlin 1-285-4-2-1 District Africa Egypt Cairo X Babylon 1-320-4-2-1 Country Asia X Balakhanira 3-243-4-2-1 Island Atlantis X Bokhara 3-061-1-2-1 Region Asia X Boston 3-133-4-3-1 City North America America X Cairo 2-175-4-3-1 City Africa Egypt X Caironana 1-285-4-2-1 District Africa Egypt Cairo X Center 3-311-2-2-1 Center X Chicago 3-125-2-4-1 City North America America X Chiklaral 1-325-3-1-1 City Asia X China 3-015-4-1-1 Country Asia X Djoolfapal 1-366-2-2-1 City Asia Kurlandtech X Egypt 1-301-4-1-1 Country Africa X Europe 1-273-2-1-1 Continent X France 2-256-4-1-1 Country Europe X Gemchania 2-309-1-1-1 Country Asia X Germany 2-144-3-1-1 Country Europe X Gob 1-213-1-1-1 City Ashhark Maralpleicie X Grabontzi 1-301-2-1-1 Continent X Greece 2-008-2-1-1 Country Europe X Hindu Kush 3-160-3-1-1 Region Asia X India 2-309-1-1-1 Country Asia X Iranan 1-209-2-2-1 Continent X Ispahan 2-188-3-1-1 Region Asia X Persia Jerusalem 2-299-3-1-1 City Asia X Kaimon 1-229-2-2-1 City Ashhark X Karatas 3-310-4-2-1 Planet X Kelnuk 3-208-1-2-1 Locality Asia X Kolhidious 1-183-4-3-1 Sea X Koorkalai 1-186-4-2-1 City Ashhark Tikliamish X Location Place in IsAWhat Continent Other (Region, Country City District book Planet, Sea) Kronbookhon 1-392-3-1-1 City Asia Nievia X Kurlandtech 1-366-2-2-1 Country Asia X Maralpleicie 1-218-4-3-1 Country Asia X Mars 1-206-2-2-1 Planet X Mongolplanzura 3-253-3-1-1 Country Asia X Mosulopolis 3-253-4-3-1 City Asia X Naria-chi 1-226-2-1-1 River Ashhark X Maralpleicie New York 3-109-1-1-1 City North America America X Nievia 1-392-3-1-1 Country Asia X Paris 2-257-4-1-1 City Europe France X Pearl-land 1-229-2-1-1 Country Asia X Persia 3-166-1-1-1 Country Asia X Persian Gulf 1-321-1-1-1 Region Asia X Petrograd 3-306-1-1-1 City Europe Russia X Purgatory 3-311-1-1-1 Planet X Red Sea 1-284-2-1-1 Sea X Rirkh 3-342-4-1-1 Populated center on Saturn X Rome 2-007-1-1-1 City Europe Italy X Russia 2-236-4-1-1 Country Europe X Saint Petersburg 2-187-2-2-1 City Europe Russia X Samlios 1-110-4-2-1 City Atlantis X Samoniks 3-252-4-3-1 City Asia Tikliamish X Saturn 1-151-1-1-1 Planet X Sea of Beneficence 1-207-2-2-1 Sea X Sincratorza 1-255-1-1-1 Country Asia X Sincratorza 1-255-1-1-1 Settlement Asia X Tibet Sinndraga 3-323-2-1-1 Continent X Talaialtnikoom 2-188-4-1-1 City Asia Persia X Thebes 1-284-4-2-1 City Africa Egypt X Tibet 1-252-1-1-1 Country Asia X Tikliamish 1-184-4-1-1 Country Asia X Transcaucasia 3-216-4-1-1 Region Asia X Turkestan 2-120-4-1-1 Region Asia X Turkey 2-302-4-4-1 Country Europe X Urmia 3-326-4-1-1 Locality Asia X --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Principles used for assembling the information --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** If you take the time to consider how the material is organized and why, you will be able to make better use of the spreadsheet. Here are the principles used for assembling the information. The goal of these principles is to support searching for simething that you or I remember. (Alert! This is clearly a very different purpose from any purpose connected with All and Everything itself! I would hope that users of this spreadsheet would be able to keep those two things separate.) --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Explanation of spreadsheet columns --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** 1)Term The terms on the left (the "Term" column) are ones that would apparently be the most helpful for finding a particular sentence. However, if a term appears many, many times in the book, it would not be helpful, and I omitted it from the column on the left. To see how many of the terms were used in the list on the left, see how many rows there are in the spreadsheet. Alert!! The terms in the spreadsheet tend to be the roots of words, not necessarily the word itself. This is done so that there will not be multiple versions of the same word in a filter list or in the list of terms on the left of the spreadsheet. In particular, instead of the past tense of a verb, the spreadsheet will use the present tense. The present perfect tense ("giving," etc.) is generally left as is. Also, adverbs generally do not appear in the spreadsheet. In their place, the adjective form of the word appears. This is done so that like terms will sort and filter together. Here are some examples: Not But rather won win actively active sparingly sparing pelted pelt If a term appears in the same sentence multiple times, only its first appearance will only be shown in the spreadsheet. 2) Location The location shown for the sentence is the location that the sentence is about. Therefore, if the sentence is about Paris, the location will be Paris, and not France or Europe. A location might be one of these: --region (“The Center,” “Upper Bokhara,” “Rirkh”) --city (“Chicago,” “Gob”) --district (“Montmartre”) --country (“Egypt,” “China”) --continent (“Asia,” “Europe”) --planet (“Mars,” “Saturn”) The location column contains the location that the passage is about. It may be smaller or larger than the location that you are looking for. (Example: I might remember that the location is in a continent “Asia” but it is shown in the book as a city “Mosulopolis.”) There is a location cross reference in this users guide. You might find it helpful to refer to it in order to find alternative possible locations for what you remember. 3) Descent A descent number is provided in the descent column when the story makes it clear that the passage is about a time when the main character was on the Earth during a specified descent. (Example: 1-187-1-1-2: “...that aim for which I made this second sojourn of mine...”) 4) Era In this spreadsheet, an era is a period of time when there was a thriving civilization that was named in the book. (Examples: 2-100-2-1-1 “Tikliamishian civilization.”) An era will be shown in the era column when the story is placed in that era. (Example: 3-253-3-2-1 “This society existed there with the motto...” took place in the “Tikliamishian” era.) 5) DNQ It appears that Gurdjieff did not define a term very often. However, sometimes a sentence will define a term. I count that there are 39 such sentences among all three volumes. There are also terms that appear in the text within quotation marks. Many of these terms contain only one word. If a term in quotes contained a number of words, and was not very long (about half the width of the page) I tried to include it as a term in the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet contains 4094 of these quoted terms. The quoted terms appear with a "Q" in the DNQ column. So if you remember that a particular term did or did not appear in the book in quotes, you can filter for that. If a term appears in the text in quotes, and also was defined in the sentence, I had to make a choice. Because Gurdjieff did not emphasize defining terms, I chose to show them with a Q in the DNQ column, rather than a "D." As a result, there are only 17 terms that appear with a "D" in the DNQ column. If a term was neither defined nor appeared in quotes, I showed it with a "N" (neither) in the DNQ column. Because the letter “N” is present when neither a “D” nor a “Q” is present, you can filter for an “N” in the DNQ column. 6) Speaker The speaker is the entity who is saying the text that is in the book. Many times the speaker is the narrator. (Example: 1-103-1-3-1 “To this question of his grandson...”) 7) Place in Book The place of a sentence or sentence fragment in a volume is shown as Volume-Page-Quadrant-Sentence number-Sentence part. For example, “2-251-2-1-2” means: Volume 2 Page 251 Quadrant 2 Sentence 1 Sentence part 2 A sentence part is a way of allowing you to quickly find which place in a long sentence where the term is found. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Which parts of speech are included as terms --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Adjectives and participles Adjectives are generally included. (Example: “dry.”) However, if an adjective would provide little help for finding a sentence, it is omitted. This is especially true if the adjective is very common. (Examples: “other,” “someone.”) Present participles are generally included. (Example: “running.”) Past participles are handled differently depending on whether the participle implies motion. --Those that imply motion are changed to their verb stem. (Example: “handled” becomes “handle.”) --Those that do not imply motion are generally left as they are. (Example: “coated.”) Adverbs Adverbs are a special issue. They tend to be closely related to an adjective, and would therefore appear close to the adjective when sorted in a list. (Example: “usual” and “usually.”) Therefore, this spreadsheet generally changes adverbs to adjectives. This typically makes the adverb shorter. (Example: “actually” changes to “actual.”) As a result, when searching you may often find yourself searching for the first letters of a word, and not concerning yourself with how the word ends. This would be a good principle to follow when using this spreadsheet. Exceptions: --Time references are generally left as-is if they are absolute. (Examples: “never,” “always.”) --Time references are generally omitted if they are relative. (Examples: “sometimes.” However, “rarely” would be reduced to its adjective “rare” and included.) --”Afterwards” has been changed to “afterward.” Adverbs are omitted if they would provide little help in a search due to frequency of use. (Examples: “very,” “somewhat.”) Therefore, the interrogative adverbs “who,” “what,” “where,” “why,” “when,” and “how,” are omitted. Conjunctions Conjunctions are omitted (Examples: “and,” “but.”) Nouns and pronouns Nouns are generally included. (Example: “slug.”) They are shown in the singular form unless they are a mass noun. (Examples of mass nouns: “wiseacrings,” “things” used in the phrase “in the order of things.”) Pronouns are generally not included. (Example: “you,” “me,” and so on.) There is an exception: “I” is included when it refers to an “I.” This is rare. Prepositions Prepositons generally not included. (Examples: “for,” “concerning.”) There are exceptions, such as “according to,” and “owing to.” These exceptions are things that a person might remember. Verbs Verbs are generally included, but helping verbs are not. (Examples: “run” would be included, but “could” is not.) Many verbs appear in writing as prepositional verbs. (Examples: “burn up,” “burn down,” “burn in,” “burn out.”) These are generally included twice: once as the verb, and once as the entire prepositional verb. Including them twice allows you to search, sort, and filter without needing to concern yourself with whether the verb has a preposition on the end. Forms of the verbs “be” or “do” are generally not included unless they are an integral part of the meaning of the sentence. The reason is that these two verbs appear very frequently. Detailed remarks about omitting words The words “certain” and ”same” are not included. Neither do “the preceeding,” “the following,” “latter” and so on. All of these words are part of one manner (a “scaffold” or “grating”) of perceiving a language. This particular manner of perceiving is not part of the English language. Therefore, a person thinking in English will generally not find these particular terms to be helpful for remembering the contents of a sentence. In general, a term is included in the spreadsheet if it might help you to find the passage or passages that you are looking for. Therefore, a word will be listed if it might be one of the words that you would tend to remember, or that would assist you in selecting the passage, and not others. Very frequently a term will appear in the spreadsheet section: “Some Terms in the Sentence” and yet not be shown in the left column “Term.” (Examples: “first,” “second.”) Sometimes a term occurs in the three volumes so often that it would produce an unwieldy number of rows if shown in the left column. Actually, about half of the terms shown in the section: “Some Terms in the Sentence” do not appear in the left column “Term” for this very reason. Deciding which terms to include in the spreadsheet strikes me as a matter of knowing the English language. It also seems to me to be a matter of applying judgement and artistry. There was no hard and fast rule for deciding when a term was used too many times to list it in the left column “Term.” In general, if it would have appeared in the left column more than forty times, it would need to be an important concept to be retained in the left column. (Examples: “look” is not shown in the left column. However, “omnipresent” is shown in the left column, even though it appears there more than forty times.) There are also terms that would have appeared in the left column less than forty times, that I omitted from the left column. The reason is that they probably would not have assisted a search. Note that I omitted the term “zimbal” from the left column. The spreadsheet was too long, and something had to go. You can still search for it using the “find” feature of your spreadsheet program. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Capitalization --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** In general, a words appears in lower case unless there is a good reason to capitalize it. The effort to capitalize words in this spreadsheet is not quite complete. You might want to correct some of the capitalization, if you wish. Proper nouns are capitalized. This includes the names of characters and places. (Examples” “Mars,” “Asia,” “Ahoon.”) However, titles generally appear in lower case. This is done so that all the terms sorted together will be capitalized the same. (Examples: “seraph,” “archangel.”) Per English usage, adjectives formed from proper nouns are capitalized, and are shown in this spreadsheet capitalized. (Examples: “Martian,” “Asian,” “Ashiatian.”) “Okidanokh” is capitalized. Where it is not, it is evidently my mistake. Here are some capitalization exceptions: —a word might be capitalized consistently in the text, but I left it uncapitalized. —"God" is capitalized, even if the meaning is "god" as in "gods and idols." —TRUE and FALSE seem to have been capitalized by the spreadsheet program that I used. You can quickly correct this in your copy. —Earth is capitalized, even if the meaning is "earth" in reference to soil. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Spelling --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Spelling follows the book even if the word is sometimes spelled differently in some places. This is rare. --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** Acknowledgements --*************************************************************** --*************************************************************** At first I had decided not to include any acknowledgements. After all, this is for others, and it is not about me. Then I reconsidered. An acknowledgements section provides some understanding about me, and readers might find it to be of some value. There are so many people that I could or should thank in connection with this effort. Much of it is about providing me with the opportunity to acquire the technical skills to be able to accomplish this task. I can't thank very many people, however, without substantially interfering with my wish (lower case) to live a quiet life with a focus on keeping to myself. A special thank you to Mark Holmes, marvelous mentor. I would also like to thank Dennis Warren, Esq., whom I met in a very different set of circumstances. There are others whom I can't thank here for obvious reasons: you know who you are. Beyond that, all I can really say is thank you to all the many people who managed to somehow tolerate, willingly or unwillingly, my attempts to provide for myself and others. Steve Ryan