Chronicles of Technology

I was just starting to read a book gifted by my Grandfather (S.S. Sanwal), titled "The Dynamo of Prayer" by A. Graham Ikin.

Side Note:
It took me more than a couple of searches through Google to even find a referential link to this book's author and not even the book itself. Wow, was it that rare? The closest thing I could come up with were these links 1, 2 (if link 2 breaks use Ikin to search by author) relating to out of publish books.

I was unable to find an ISBN number on the book or anywhere else online. So this is what it says about how and where it was published.

FIRST PUBLISHED BY ARCO PUBLICATIONS 1960
(C) A. GRAHAM IKIN 1960
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
CLARKE, DOBLE AND BRENDON LTD
CATTEDOWN, PLYMOUTH

My several attempts to read it late evenings after a long day would be slightly hampered by the following :

• My inherently tired eyes and brains; from chewing through all the 20-30 or so windows of continual information stimuli that screamed out from my laptop at any given time
• Very strong language that would twist and turn into long sentences where one would lose track of the start of the sentence by the time you are trying to absorb the end, or ofcourse I had low attention span and focus that late at night.

Ofcourse, last night I was able to go through around 25 pages before my eyes began to shut. One bit caught my attention since I had to look up a few words to ensure that I was absorbing the matter in the same vein as the author wanted it to be absorbed.

"Nature and Grace are very closely intertwined. God is Immanent as well as Transcendent"

Side Note:
I had to look up the words online since I was missing my Webster Unabridged CD.

Immanent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Transcendent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

I started to piece that together after looking up the 'reference sources' to see whether I had the same interpretation...

Around 10 minutes later, it hit me (the ways of the subconcious mind). How the same concept relates to 'Service Orientation' in terms of an Enterprise or in terms of a style of Architecture.

To be continued...