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  2. The Doors of Perception - Wikipedia

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    William Blake (1757–1827), who inspired the book's title and writing style, was an influential English artist most notable for his paintings and poetry. The "doors of perception" was originally a metaphor written by Blake in his 1790 book, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The metaphor was used to represent Blake's feelings about mankind's ...

  3. John Thackara - Wikipedia

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    Doors of Perception was the institute's flagship conference. Thackara left the institute in 1999 and set up Doors of Perception as an independent company in 2000. From 1998 to 2002 Thackara was also director of research at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. He was appointed to this newly created position by the RCA's then rector, Jocelyn ...

  4. The Doors - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Doors 41st on their list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. [15] Also in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time included two of their songs: "Light My Fire" at number 35 and "The End" at number 328. [178] In 2007, the Doors received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement. [179]

  5. Jim Morrison - Wikipedia

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    The book The Doors, by the remaining Doors, quotes Morrison's close friend Frank Lisciandro as saying that too many people took a remark of Morrison's that he was interested in revolt, disorder, and chaos "to mean that he was an anarchist, a revolutionary, or, worse yet, a nihilist. Hardly anyone noticed that Jim was paraphrasing Rimbaud and ...

  6. Dave Pike - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The Doors of Perception, released in 1970 for the Atlantic Records subsidiary Vortex Records, and produced by former boss Herbie Mann, explored ballads, modal territory, musique concrète, with free and lyrical improvisation, and included musicians including alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, bassist Chuck Israels and pianist Don ...

  7. Microsoft Opens the Doors of Perception - AOL

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    "And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad."-- Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954) Instead of opening the doors of perception, it's more like Microsoft (NAS: MSFT ...

  8. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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    This near-death experience opened for him "the doors of perception", making his last weeks more wonderful than the decades he was giving up, and it also made him able to see people's color auras. During these tales, Tsukuru sometimes felt a sort of confusion between himself, Haida, Haida's father, and Midorikawa.

  9. Perception (The Doors album) - Wikipedia

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    Perception is a 12-disc box set by American rock band the Doors. The CDs contain the six 1999 remastered versions of the Doors' six studio albums plus DVD-Audio discs containing the 2007 40th anniversary stereo and surround remixes of those albums as well as visual extras. [ 4 ]