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What women never mention is that they are forever casting runes, the way the salt flecks the pastry flour, the way the apple peels fall to the table, the way the children’s shoes are arranged in the hallway, all these are portentous matters laden…
Read more…I have decided to encourage the young. Once I wouldn’t have done this, but now I have nothing to lose. The young are not my rivals. Fish are not the rivals of stones. So I will encourage them open-handedly, I will encourage them en masse. I’ll fling…
Read more…Dear Brave Souls: Something Toni Morrison said when she and I and Maya were writing the libretto "Woman.Life.Song" to be performed by us in spoken word, and sung by Jessye Norman at Carnegie Hall... We were talking about our ancestral histories of…
Read more…The voice is that of a priest in 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce. He is trying to convey to his congregation what an eternity in Hell would be like. It is an impressive description of the idea of eternity, and terrifies the…
Read more…Very nice book. Written in 1960. ''The Way and the Mountain is a selection of Marco Pallis' most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis traveled extensively in the Himalayas and studied Buddhism from Lamas within the tradition before…
Read more…"In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, & Baudrillard. As a…
Read more…A writer I came across. Love the way he puts words together so exuberantly, so physically. Here are a few samples and a link to his site. (The rough gods...) “But the hour is getting late now. And when the stories we tell only have a human…
Read more…“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.” The Gulag Archipelago…
Read more…Good interview with Colin Wilson. (Video) Putting it in here in the Book Nook as he wrote one of my favourite books - The Outsider In the first 8 minutes of this video he speaks about his experience of panic attacks in a very vivid way. Later he…
Read more…This book is worth a read, though some might find it depressing. It is not a literary work, it is a historical research; Browning puts together an account from the men's own confessions of how one regiment of the Order Police, ordinary guys from…
Read more…One day Shiva was – as usually – meditating , totally absorbed in himself. His wife Parvati came along and had this little twinge of a question. She punched him in the arm and whispered: “ Wake up !”
Shiva opened his eyes and looked at her…
In a certain forest there lived a sage who had a number of disciples. He taught his disciples the truth: "God dwells in all things. Knowing this, you should bend your knee before every object." One day a disciple went out into the forest for…
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This looks like an interesting book - Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret history of the Sixties - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43015073-chaos
Will report back after I've read it, only about a tenner to download to Kindle.
Reviews here - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/07/chaos-charles-manson-...
“glamour” - to enchant or bewitch; a magic spell (Scots). "Glamour" was an early 18C corruption of "grammar" in the sense of (occult) learning, an association which also gives us "grimoire", a spell-book. Grammar can enchant, language spellbind.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-silence-the-legac...
powerful article/autobiographical story by the writer Junot Diaz
"Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination."
~ Alberto Manguel
An online library of various interesting books is available to read here ~
https://panatmansam.tumblr.com/post/129018805976/sams-garden-book-c...
― Doris Lessing
Oh I do I do I do like Margaret Atwood...wish the interviewer here had shut up more, but besides that it's nice
I've looked that book up, Bobby. It looks very interesting..thanks. I will add it to my wish list.
Be aware that comments posted on Group Walls do not feed through to the Latest Activity feed at the moment. Post away on Group Walls...every now and then I come across then, like little hidden treasures (smiles)...so, I'm just letting you know anyways.
Nice recommendation. Will look up some more about this book.
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