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Edward Mendelson on The Crying of Lot 49 is very good and I have read that - https://web.archive.org/web/2017040...s.net/bookclub/Callie/Crying_of_lot_49_03.htm
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luka
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I just typed are you fucking stupid then deleted but please don't play the teenage anorexic just to distress your poor old mother
sadmanbarty
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Oooooh
sadmanbarty
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weed is for teenagers. something magic happens when you're 20 and it goes from being this great thing that really sharpens your thinking to something that makes it all mushy.
pattycakes_
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Shits too strong. It's supposed to relax you, not squeeze a mid life crisis into 3hrs. Nice hash better than grass any day imo.
luka
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This is totally wrong. There are no half measures. Barry is right. Something changes and you have to accept it. Give up. Grow up. Drugs should never be about 'relaxing' we don't need to relax.
sadmanbarty
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mum was listening to neil young's 'harvest' the other day and it speaks to the worst kind of west coast drug use.
the thing of waking up, taking a bit of coke to get you going, then smoking weed to take the edge off and so forth.
drug use where you're taking a cocktail of drugs intentionally to nullify the effect of each one.
it's music in which you don't get 70's-miles cocaine frenzy nor do you get dubby weed bliss. all you get is the mush.
pattycakes_
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Speak for yourself. Hash isn't a half measure for me. It's simply the better product. It's easier to gauge where you're at with it. If your brain is running too fast then sometimes it feels nice to put the breaks on. The way I prefer to smoke is really tiny amounts of hash per hit and maybe once a day. This way tolerance is kept low and it also seems to minimize the paranoia. May attract mockery from the cool kids tho. But man, a gram can last me months!
Yeah, but has to be the right high
Corpsey
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Now, under Luka's influence (in my pile of I shouldn't buy are Pound's Cantos, JH Prynne "The White Stones", Rilke's "Duino Elegies" and the King James Bible!) I'm looking at Rilke's "Letters to a young poet"./:
"Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay, where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next. Works of art are infinitely solitary And nothing is less likely to grasp them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice."
"Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay, where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next. Works of art are infinitely solitary And nothing is less likely to grasp them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice."
no, read aesthetics. just not the posh kind. no politics without aesthetics. it's just what we've got today. a creaking inefficient bureaucracy slowly driving us to suicide... tea's centrism incarnate in the administrative machine. firey polemic is always necessary. always duck the trend, subvert it, and todays trend is the nauseating putrified stench of love.