title: infinitebook 2: Notes from NowHere
author:  David Lawrence 
description: David Lawrence is an author of speculative fiction. He believes that words are an essential key to widening not only the perspective of each individual reader, but of his own as well. "As the self evolves, so does the other."
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  Publishers' Note (Coombe Springs Press, amended by Anthony Blake) 
   
  The  chapter references in this Introduction to Life  Is Real Only Then, When “I Am” refer not to 
  the published version but to another in J. G. Bennett’s possession. After his  death it was 
  decided to print the Introduction as he wrote it, without alteration. Here, it is slightly amended. 
  Bennett's Introduction refers to various 'books'.  As Gurdjieff himself outlined the Three Series of 
  writings, there were three books in the First Series, three books in the Second and there were to 
  be four books in the Third. The extant version of the Second Series does not show any sign of 
  division into three books and, it appears, Gurdjieff wrote only notes for the second and third 
  books of the Third Series - which he later destroyed - and nothing for the fourth. References to 
  'books' are put into brackets { } to alert the reader that we do not know what they actually 
  indicate, but also to suggest they can simply be 