I believe this will be my normal methodus operandianicus from now on, each of my posts will have the date as the title, and with each one will be at least one long vocaroo, which will have me reading,my audiobooks,sounds of me going to the washroom, making coffee and food, and music playing from the computer that isn't vocarooing.
Also any exciting things I'm looking forward to, and anything else emanating from my head to the head of SW.
This will be a short wake period for i need to make my food and smokes last with the means to get more is fading away quickly.
Two big books I will be getting when I actually complete some
Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. His endless thoughts are turned into the book we are reading—Schattenfroh—directed by none other than the narrator’s mysterious jailer by the same name. Undulating through explorations of Renaissance art, the German reformation, time-defying esoterica, the printing process in the 16th century, Kabbalistic mysticism, and beyond, Schattenfroh is a remarkable book that, in turn, asks the remarkable of its readers. Interruptions, breaks, and annotations both buoy and deceive, and endless historical references, literary allusions, and wordplay construct a baroque, encyclopedic quest. Schattenfroh’s publication in English marks a seminal moment in the history of the literary form.
In A Table for Fortune, National Book Award–winner William T. Vollmann depicts the last half-century of American politics, war, and life in this four-part, 3,000+ page novel that is at once a family drama, bildungsroman, and national epic.
Volumes 1 and 2 gather from the half-forgotten annals of the near-past––Stasi documents, Iraqi newspaper articles, presidential radio addresses––to form a vivid and mesmeric saga centered on Elliott Stevens, or DAVE, a CIA analyst whose glee at winning the Cold War is matched only by the dread that culminates in the nightmares of September eleventh and the resulting War on Terror. The hero of Volumes 3 and 4 is Matthew Stevens, Elliott's son, whose efforts to escape his parents and divine the fate of his life result in homelessness, addiction, and perhaps even happiness.
Spanning from 1968 to 2019, these volumes comb together––with Vollmann's generous wit and Olympian prose––a staggeringly well-researched, definitive history of American post-war foreign policy with a deft, moving chronicle of a family's descent into resentment and gloom. Elliott and Matthew Stevens are “passengers within a divine bullet,” which, like Gogol's troika before it, overtakes all flying to its nation's end. This boxed set, with all four volumes in hardcover, allows the book to be read as intended: as one towering novel, the magnum opus of one of the giants of literature.
When I'm done my vocaroo (currently recording the Lankavatara Sutra) in about 7 hrs will go directly below, so my method will be to lay out everything besides the vocaroo before putting the vocaroo there, and this to me is the biggest thing, drawing together the favorite things in music and books, as a mountain reaching high up, and is actually more imposing than all the cleaning I got to do, my pleasures in other words outweigh the things that drain my spirit.
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Notes: 1 -- Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France -- 2 -- Thomas Paine -- Rights of Man -- 3-- William Godwin -- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice --- this would be a minor little sequential background reading for this kind of thing brought on by getting a ebook on sale -- Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions.
His Reflections and Illuminations are in the Kindle+ catalog [media=https://youtu.be/s-64pCT9MZ8]
