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Her fiction is awful in my experience, but like I said the diaries are pretty intense. Strange how that works. I'll second on Mount Analogue... And, Cairo Trilogy anyone? I just finished Palace Walk and it was pretty fascinating

Nin's diaries (or at least the the one where she meets Miller and the next one before she moves to New York) are excellent. June, the birth scene, living in a barge on the Seine, quite romantic... Once she comes to the states though it's awful, makes you wonder about America in the 40's

Well it's maybe 150 pages and uncompleted, as Daumal had tuberculosis and died in the midst of writing it... but those few pages are great. Fantastic concepts but rather silly at the same time... I imagine it being written rather joyfully unlike HM, which despite it's psychedelic tinge seems to...

There's plenty of absurdity, not enough levity.

Exactly. Far too serious without any sort of appreciation of its limits. El Topo's certainly better, but I'll have to confess that I don't understand the awe in which some people hold Jodorowsky.

I was going to mention Mount Analogue as well. Way more interesting than Holy Mountain... such a disappointment that it's unfinished.

Well, I'm more referring to your earlier statement that clinical depression can not be solved through will/thought/bucking up, etc... that it requires medication and your defense of the mental health industry So, to be brief: something like schizophrenia being a technique of resistance...

Argh... Too much silliness. To bring this back to something interesting, I'm struck Nomad by the conflict between your views of psychiatry/pharmacology and your interest in Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, etc. I'd like to see how you're reconciling, for example, Bateson's theories on...

Wait... you can own a car in New York?

Eh, everything's patched up in the end, plus that Rod Poole's pretty wicked, so thank you Zhao.

The last would seem to preclude children, no ? As do your comments on ownership, a questionable term to be using here, as it presumes the conclusion (inequality) that you're reaching towards. I think it'd be more productive to think of the owner/pet relationship in terms of the pact where...

What the heck just happened? I'll give you ten bucks if you switch the look back.

Tons of privacy concerns on this out there, plus it's invasive on your machine. I'd give it a couple weeks.

Just seems like a few here want to keep the place a provincial, locals only reflection on the British music scene. That's cool in a way, but I like to see a more diverse group of voices.

Wah? I didn't say anything about capitalism, pro or anti. I don't have a dog in the fight about HMLT so that's got nothing to do with my point. One can leave by choice and still be run off. Shouldn't be too hard to comprehend that.