william_kent
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You know you're supposed to read Beelzebub's Tales 3 times?
one of the times you have to read it aloud
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You know you're supposed to read Beelzebub's Tales 3 times?
one of the times you have to read it aloud
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah the editor's note states that. Haven't heard about the aloud reading though.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Apparently Leary was a follower of Gurdjieff, maybe indirectly through Ouspensky.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I've managed to get ~16 pages into this US climate policy report, and even that is a struggle. The time will come.
william_kent
Well-known member
I found the Gurdjieff quote - you pretend to read it out loud..
..,I find it necessary on the first page of this book, now ready for publication, to give the following advice "Read each of my written expositions thrice
First - at least as you have already become mechanized to read all your contemporary books and newspapers,
Second - as if you were reading aloud to another person,
And only third - try to fathom the gist of my writings.
..,I find it necessary on the first page of this book, now ready for publication, to give the following advice "Read each of my written expositions thrice
First - at least as you have already become mechanized to read all your contemporary books and newspapers,
Second - as if you were reading aloud to another person,
And only third - try to fathom the gist of my writings.
craner
Beast of Burden
The Bible’s wicked, you’re going to love it.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I'm unready really to contend with it. Far from ready. Or Gurdjieff for that matter. I have a ways yet to go through the frenzied belly of the system.
craner
Beast of Burden
Don’t be such a wimp.
Did you read it because of Killah Priest?
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah thats why I think it will become something of a mystical ancient practice, provided the hyperstimulation continues on the track it promises to.
Thats a big hurdle for me right now, regarding reading. Not just the attention span, but I encountered too much too quickly, it seems, and it has all been leveled into a single plane of discourse.
craner
Beast of Burden
Bullshit excuses.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Granted, the first time I got myself into reading regularly was through sheer willpower, so maybe thats all it will take this time.
craner
Beast of Burden
You got Stan to read Prynne? You're like a crack dealer.
Moving yellow bricks.