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“Moorcock believes, like Arthur Brown, that when art takes on the function of myth, it can actually transform consciousness: “I believe that the artist is a shaman, in that you provide your public (tribe) with images, resonances, stories which symbolise their relationship with the physical world and its questions.”
― Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
― Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
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“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
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“When your work is created from a deep connection with the spiritual, its power is manifest so using symbols is an unnecessary overstatement. I think public gratuitous display tends to reflect a weakness and insecurity, in both the work and the person behind the work.”
― Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
― Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
“And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you're seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
DFW - The Broom of the System (group read)
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We will be reading David Foster Wallace's "The Broom of the System," starting October 1, 2011. Here's the reading schedule: https://docs.google.com/sp ...more
David Foster Wallace
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A group for the amazing work of David Foster Wallace, now deceased. RIP 1962-2008 Feel free to add his books to the bookshelf for the group.
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