LEJ did you ever read Hesse's Magister Ludi, that's one I have been promising myself I would reread.

A great many of the books listed I know I have read but for the life of me the impact and what they were about are dimming. I am in need of a lot more rereading, this time on ginko. Gee is that the stuff that improves your memory, I can't remember. Reminds me of a quote: "We are all of two minds, the little mind for remembering the little things and the big mind for forgetting the big things."