However, Dr. Suess might have said were he a nondualist, "The cat is the hat and the hat is the cat." We are talking, of course, about Schrodinger's cat and Heisenberg's hat.
Weird. I just picked up a used copy of this book. I’ve not read any of her work and rarely read science fiction and fantasy. The blurb had intrigued me and now I am even more intrigued. Moving this title to the top of my list. I’m currently reading The Savage Defectives and am not impressed so far. I'm 150 pages in and am considering quitting but feel the book could have a slow start and that I might miss out.
It has to be on the those synchronicities, Jung's Egyptian beetle beating down on his New York apartment in the form of this book. I jest but same here, not too big on Science fiction or Fantasy mostly mainstream tastes in those genres but slowly and surely Ursula continues to win me over. It has a lot in common with Philip K. Dick as she I believe stated she wrote it as a kind of paean. Her Taoist and Anarchist allegory seems to be what really does it for me though.
Ah Bolaño! I often recommend that book as an introduction sort of craziness that literature has gotten into, though I feel that the receptions are quite mixed. Part II (probably after 150?) is the best part where it essentially switches into tiny short stories and vignettes which make up the majority of the book. I would give that part a shot and if you don't like then put it down. Though I would give the short story collection "The Last Evenings on Earth" or even the short story which the collection is named after a chance in case you are worried about missing anything out.
I admit now that as a Latin who has done "On The Road" styled trips in the Americas and Europe it may be pure bias or I just like the idea of some elite government CIA styled poetry agency, poetry bank robbers and poetry desperados roaming the world and dropping in on random poetry workshops.
Yeah, I knew the narrative changed after the diary entries ended. I've got about ten pages to go on the first part. I'll stick it out. It's not that I don't enjoy the book but that I have so many to read, a great problem to have, one I'm sure you're familiar with. I love the book's concept and am looking forward to whatever shenanigans happen.
P.K. Dick is one sci-fi writer I love. I've read several of his books. The blurb for The Lathe of Heaven reminded me of Dick, which was why I bought it, well, that, and it was only a dollar.
Yeah, that reading list is a blessing and a curse for sure. Nice to hear, I think Part II should give you an idea of whether or not it will be worth it. If anything I was just excited to hear you were reading "Savage Detectives" as I know how into literature you are as well and all that.
Let me know what some of your P.K. Dick's favorites are as after a couple more Le Guin novels I think I will finally turn my attention to him.
In a recent conversation with a colleague, I remembered this statement from a wise woman: “When you argue with reality you’re wrong, but only 100% of the time.” 😀
It's a lovely quote and I enjoy how these quotes may seem sort of cliché but are actually hard to formulate and quite deep when you think of them. Paraphrasing from the first McKenna book somewhere "It's not even wrong to think it's wrong..."
Byron Katie and her spouse of Stephen Mitchell, I always wondered if they quote poetry before dinner and have flamingos and tigers.
However, Dr. Suess might have said were he a nondualist, "The cat is the hat and the hat is the cat." We are talking, of course, about Schrodinger's cat and Heisenberg's hat.
God damn, that's some Def Lotus poetry slamming there.
You mean Def leopard?
Le Guin was the child of anthropologist parents, and this shows in the many ways her fiction engages with all aspects of that science.
Makes perfect sense, it's a constant feeling of someone's mind who is turned on.
Weird. I just picked up a used copy of this book. I’ve not read any of her work and rarely read science fiction and fantasy. The blurb had intrigued me and now I am even more intrigued. Moving this title to the top of my list. I’m currently reading The Savage Defectives and am not impressed so far. I'm 150 pages in and am considering quitting but feel the book could have a slow start and that I might miss out.
It has to be on the those synchronicities, Jung's Egyptian beetle beating down on his New York apartment in the form of this book. I jest but same here, not too big on Science fiction or Fantasy mostly mainstream tastes in those genres but slowly and surely Ursula continues to win me over. It has a lot in common with Philip K. Dick as she I believe stated she wrote it as a kind of paean. Her Taoist and Anarchist allegory seems to be what really does it for me though.
Ah Bolaño! I often recommend that book as an introduction sort of craziness that literature has gotten into, though I feel that the receptions are quite mixed. Part II (probably after 150?) is the best part where it essentially switches into tiny short stories and vignettes which make up the majority of the book. I would give that part a shot and if you don't like then put it down. Though I would give the short story collection "The Last Evenings on Earth" or even the short story which the collection is named after a chance in case you are worried about missing anything out.
I admit now that as a Latin who has done "On The Road" styled trips in the Americas and Europe it may be pure bias or I just like the idea of some elite government CIA styled poetry agency, poetry bank robbers and poetry desperados roaming the world and dropping in on random poetry workshops.
Yeah, I knew the narrative changed after the diary entries ended. I've got about ten pages to go on the first part. I'll stick it out. It's not that I don't enjoy the book but that I have so many to read, a great problem to have, one I'm sure you're familiar with. I love the book's concept and am looking forward to whatever shenanigans happen.
P.K. Dick is one sci-fi writer I love. I've read several of his books. The blurb for The Lathe of Heaven reminded me of Dick, which was why I bought it, well, that, and it was only a dollar.
Yeah, that reading list is a blessing and a curse for sure. Nice to hear, I think Part II should give you an idea of whether or not it will be worth it. If anything I was just excited to hear you were reading "Savage Detectives" as I know how into literature you are as well and all that.
Let me know what some of your P.K. Dick's favorites are as after a couple more Le Guin novels I think I will finally turn my attention to him.
In a recent conversation with a colleague, I remembered this statement from a wise woman: “When you argue with reality you’re wrong, but only 100% of the time.” 😀
It's a lovely quote and I enjoy how these quotes may seem sort of cliché but are actually hard to formulate and quite deep when you think of them. Paraphrasing from the first McKenna book somewhere "It's not even wrong to think it's wrong..."
Byron Katie and her spouse of Stephen Mitchell, I always wondered if they quote poetry before dinner and have flamingos and tigers.