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[quintessentone]

Hi! In case you don't know, urine is a great compost addition and accelerator. Cheers

I didn't know that, thanks. It is a sterile substance and Scarlet (Gone with the Wind) used it and other waste on her crops at Tara, so it must be okay. lol

[sahgwa]

I heard her and Rhett had somethin goin with her urine, too. But that was the unexpurgated version of the novel.  I'll see my way out.

[quintessentone]

So, this video has spurred me on to read Jung's 'The Red Book' which was not published until 50 years after his death. I am on page 59 of 4088 pages in total. The beginning is a history of Jung's life and instances of his visions/hallucinations that forged his way.




Free book:

Carl Gustav Jung The Red Book Liber Novu : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive


In those few pages I have read so far, the next book Jung mentioned is Nietsche's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' and that will most likely be the next free book I will look at (or quickly speed read) to see if it will keep my interest.

Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche | Project Gutenberg

[UltraBudgie]

So, this video has spurred me on to read Jung's 'The Red Book' which was not published until 50 years after his death. I am on page 59 of 4088 pages in total. The beginning is a history of Jung's life and instances of his visions/hallucinations that forged his way.

oh it is a fun read jung much crazier than previously thought haha not at all surprising too!

best read while eating eggs

i have red book hardcover folio size beautiful illustrations but only about 200 pages? i would check but it is still packed from recent move hmm i should unpack my folio size bookshelf at least

too many books!

haha no not too many

zarathustra banger too many fans its not to be read by the young though and you do need a certain tolerance for niche being smaunchogant (smug+staunch+arrogant)

[sahgwa]

oh it is a fun read jung much crazier than previously thought haha not at all surprising too!

best read while eating eggs

i have red book hardcover folio size beautiful illustrations but only about 200 pages? i would check but it is still packed from recent move hmm i should unpack my folio size bookshelf at least

too many books!

haha no not too many

zarathustra banger too many fans its not to be read by the young though and you do need a certain tolerance for niche being smaunchogant (smug+staunch+arrogant)

Both of those books have been on my to-read list for sure.
I have THUS SPAKE in a nice Penguin edition.  I like those black covers white text of the last 2 editions.
RED BOOK I ain't got but there is a small readers version in paperback somehow:

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Book-Readers-...eature_div

My friend is a practising Jungian shrink so he recommends it too. 

Is it really over 4k pages?!  the readers version seems like maybe 1k max

[quintessentone]

I heard her and Rhett had somethin goin with her urine, too. But that was the unexpurgated version of the novel.  I'll see my way out.

Was that when Rhett was revenge lovin' her before he left her? We both may have to see out way out.

[quintessentone]

Both of those books have been on my to-read list for sure.
I have THUS SPAKE in a nice Penguin edition.  I like those black covers white text of the last 2 editions.
RED BOOK I ain't got but there is a small readers version in paperback somehow:

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Book-Readers-...eature_div

My friend is a practising Jungian shrink so he recommends it too. 

Is it really over 4k pages?!  the readers version seems like maybe 1k max

It depends on the downloaded format, the format I downloaded is like 1/4 of a page side-by-side, so when I do the math, yeah, 1,000 pages (?)

[sahgwa]

It depends on the downloaded format, the format I downloaded is like 1/4 of a page side-by-side, so when I do the math, yeah, 1,000 pages (?)

Ok that makes more sense. I was not seeing the logistics of this book being a paperback and not falling into large chunks.

[sahgwa]

I finished a Bukowski novel the other week, very fast, he writes simple and to the point. An even drunker but less interesting terse Hemingway style.  Hadn't read any Bukowski since my main-time with him in last bachelor days circa 2013. 

my blurbing. 

FACTOTUM by Charles Bukowski.

Bukowski's literary alter ego, Henry Chinaski, bums around from job to job, town to town, never finding a stable home or circle of acquaintances, nor job.
It is not that he is mentally or physically incapable of keeping in one place and being good at or satisfied at a job, it is that he is existentially and spiritually bankrupt. 
This is a man that was born with his head in a vise of his own making, always seeing the negative side of life and humanity, and the uselessness of human endeavor from an existential malaise and perhaps spiritual lacking point of view.

As such, he kills his bad feelings with booze and sex, and sometimes classical music and sleeping.  He never quite pulls himself out of his deficient outlook; the closest he gets is finding a woman he doesn't mind living with for more than a few months, but then his relationships are all ruined by alcohol, just like his jobs.
When he lands a cushy job as a hotel back office worker, only needing to answer the phone on Sundays and do what he wants, he messes that up by drinking whisky on the job and threatening the manager.

His existential angst is understandable, and even relatable at times, but when one is no longer in their 20s and 30s, and has found the worth and beauty that can sometimes exist in the universe, his repetitive sabotaging of his own life, while occasionally entertaining, becomes a bit of a drag.  A monotone monotype monologue that eventually goes nowhere.  

Somewhat recommended. 7/10.  It's shortness saves it .

[argentus]

I don't think I talked about this author, but if I did, please forgive me.   Some things don't get better with age.  :D :D 

Octavia Butler.  WONderful.   I read Dawn, and loved it, and just finished Parable of the Sower and now beginning the second book, Parable of the Talents.

Octavia E. Butler was one of many authors taken from us all too soon.   She wrote fiction with what I think of as a blend of sociology/psychology/horror/science fiction.   Horror in the sense of describing her vision of the depths to which humanity might lower themselves.   I think her works are brilliant.  She died in 2006.   I have had the pleasure in my life of talking with several of my favorite authors.  I wish I could have talked with her, and shared in her vision and essence, if only briefly, as such encounters are.