find me a book to read or somethign else to do. i am bored. bored bored
bored bored bored.
~fnmgirly
Go out and buy
The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying by Sohyal Rinpoche
My current fave, reading it for the second time now
-Dave
Haven't read that translation but it comes highly recommended by Aldous
Huxley, the finest writer I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
Where'd you get that copy, Dave?
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you know, i have about 5o million books by aldous houxley just kicking
around. never read them because im lazy. might do that.
im actually reading the threepenny novel, some satirical thing on
sapitalism. i forget the author, but its well cool...
berthold brecht?
Small bookshop across the road from my flat (now closed down, sadly)
You are welcome to borrow it if you so wish, after all, I do owe you for
telling me about Milan Kundera.
-Dave
Ayha
Did I do that?
-Dave
Thanks man. I'll continue keeping an eye out down here. Been getting into
much Buddhist stuff after I was in Japan; out there they have bibles in the
hotels but they also have English translations of The Way of the Buddha,
which I was getting totally into until it was time to go.
I was about to steal it when I read a footnote in the back of the thing
which read: "These books are made by a non-profit making organisation which
pays for the production through diligence and hardwork. Please do not steal
this book".
Stupid Buddhist ethics.
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Read Brave New World or Limbo first then progress. The guy is awesome. I
met his niece once and she didn't seem to care much one way or the other
about him.
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as read by... Gillian Anderson and my dad.
i wanted to read it. but then i couldn't find it. and forgot.
must remember.
rachel
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you rule!!!!i got off the computer and remembered and was about to reconnect
but i was too tired. so i went to bed instead.
issa good book, no?
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>you rule!!!!i got off the computer and remembered and was about to
reconnect
>but i was too tired. so i went to bed instead.
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>issa good book, no?
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i dunno. i haven't really read any of his stuff, but, once upon a time,
here in vermont, there was this thing called Bread and Puppet. it was a
small gathering of hippies and their families that got together at a huge
farm-type complex where an arts commune-like puppet-troupe would put on
amazing big-puppet shows that were heavily influenced by brecht, also served
with bread made by anyone who wanted to help make it from the very beginning
(right from the wheat). unfortunately, news got out about what an amazing
experience the whole weekend of camping and festivities the "bread and
puppet" summer weekend shows were, and about 100,000 people started flowing
to this little town in vermont every summer.
the last year it was held, the band phish (also from vermont, but i take
NO responsibility for that) ended its tour the week before the bread and
puppet weekend, leaving 50,000 stinking hippies without a party to go to, so
they all invaded the b+p show. i was there. it was a crazy, fucked up
weekend, culminating when one of the locals (a redneck, by all accounts)
came into one of the campground to party, got too drunk and punched some
hippie kid. the fight was over in one punch, evveryone went their own ways,
and the walking-punching bag retired to his tent to sleep off the attack.
he woke up dead a few hours later, ending the amazing tradition of the
peaceful hippie-weekend of love and puppets.
yes, this post had nothing to do with brecht, but i'm stoned and i got on a
tangent.