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^^ Loving it.

Just digging into The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe.

"I looked upon the scene before me... with an utter depression of soul, which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium -- the bitter lapse into every-day life -- the hideous dropping of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart -- an unredeemed dreariness of thought, which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime."

Only someone who has used opiates before could so exactly describe such a situation.
 
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Rereading one of my favorite and most important book.
 
Shrooms00087 said:
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

Rereading one of my favorite and most important book.
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Bah, Satre is unbearable...the most unoriginal thinker of the 20th century, his works are little more than pop-philosophy interpretations of German Existentialism/phenomenology- Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl & Martin Heidegger. And his books all are in desperate need of a good edit (the downside of writing on amphetamines)... I find it facinating that such an inauthentic person can think so much about 'authenticity'. To quote the bible (of all things?!) 'All is vanity'.

I mean no offense, please berate me ;). I just can't abide Sartre...I'm really not a fan of that style of French writing. Give me some Camus or Celine.

Anyway, rereading 'Journey to the End of the Night'- Louis-Ferdinand Celine. He may have been an anti-semite, but he was a damn talented writer.
 
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limonov said:
Bah, Satre is unbearable...the most unoriginal thinker of the 20th century, his works are little more than pop-philosophy interpretations of German Existentialism/phenomenology- Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl & Martin Heidegger. And his books all are in desperate need of a good edit (the downside of writing on amphetamines)... I find it facinating that such an inauthentic person can think so much about 'authenticity'. To quote the bible (of all things?!) 'All is vanity'.

I mean no offense, please berate me ;). I just can't abide Sartre...I'm really not a fan of that style of French writing. Give me some Camus or Celine.

Anyway, rereading 'Journey to the End of the Night'- Louis-Ferdinand Celine. He may have been an anti-semite, but he was a damn talented writer.
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I don't know, I thought it was good. :D

I'll keep your suggestions in mind.
 
i started in search of the lost time by proust but fuck me i don't have the patience for that at the moment, so instead i'm reading duane swierczynski's point and shoot which is a hilarious and completely over the top pulp crime novel.
 
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I've really enjoyed what I've read from Iain Banks thus far. Actually, a few people from Bluelight turned me on to him, I otherwise would never have heard of him. The Wasp Factory and Consider Phlebas were awesome. I also read The Crow Road, but I really can't remember anything besides the granny blowing up in the beginning. I remember enjoying it though.
 
Polluted_Mind said:
The seven sermons to the dead - C. G. Jung

Pretty intense, but definitely helping with my feelings of worthlessness as of late, knowing kindred souls in the past have also traversed this complete dissolution of the ego, and were similarly faced with something that is both a boundless void and a cornucopia; 'Nothingness is the same as fullness, in infinity full is no better than empty."

Just before reading this I was thinking about how there is a certain ultimate freedom in complete hopelessness, there are no longer any sub-consciously imposed self-restraints, and the mind is open to taking any pilgrimage into the unknown it wishes. I am yet to see whether this will lead to insanity, but it's surely the spring that all wanderers and members of The League have drunken from.
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I might just check that out then so. Can anyone point me towards some novels where the main character is...wandering aimlessly/lost in life/depressed/trying to find their path in life? I have a mound of books here but I cant read them - I just desperately need to find something to read that I can relate to.
 
endlessnameless said:
Can anyone point me towards some novels where the main character is...wandering aimlessly/lost in life/depressed/trying to find their path in life?
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You could get acquainted with Hemingway, that's like his archetypal character. The Sun Also Rises is a great primer.

I'm reading Inventing Japan, a book about the influence exposure to the West had on Japanese society.
 
endlessnameless said:
Can anyone point me towards some novels where the main character is...wandering aimlessly/lost in life/depressed/trying to find their path in life?
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Middlesex by jeffrey eugenides. The Sun Also Rises is a good suggestion.

i'm not reading anything. i'm gonna read Under the Volcano by malcolm lowry. sometime soon.
 
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