Cras melior est.
What with my reading of Opening to Inner Light and other tasty books, I know we’re heading towards a fireside discussion more meaty than we’ve had in a while, but I think this bit may not be able to wait. Yesterday, as I mindlessly surfed the intertubes, I came across this site: ugliesttattoos.com. It is [...]
This is genius. It’s a passage from Middlemarch, describing Mr. Casaubon, a middle-aged cleric whose life-work has been writing a Key to All Mythologies, apparently a syncretic work which will Explain It All once and for all. He has yet to publish the work or even come close to tying it all up in any [...]
All I could think of when watching this–and I felt like Terence Stamp’s character in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert during the ping pong ball scene–was how grateful I was not to be undergoing entheogenesis at the time. Discuss. (The name of the song is “Solid Potato Salad.”)
You probably know Christopher Smart‘s schizophrenic Jubilate Agno from its most famous segment, “To His Cat Jeoffry.” I recently came across the whole thing online. (“Jeoffry” is part of Fragment B4.) Pretty amazing stuff, head over heels more honest than Gertrude Stein. But what to do with it? This is why I bring it to [...]
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(which is not necessarily unlike more cowbell) I know that I recommended everyone read this, but I think everyone might be entertained/disturbed by this piece as well, linked from Jesus’ General. I urge everyone to look at the identity of the first poster.