Status Updates From Approaches: Drugs and Alter...

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Chapter Six: Parerga to Approaches
- Cats and Dogs
1130a 6/16
- On Gambling
108p 6/24
- Power and Prosperity • Turnover and Capital
113 —/—
- The Prussians and War
1144a 6/26
- Books and Readers
1148 —/—
- Disease and Demonic Possession • Notes on Walter’s Misfortune
225p —/— [fin.]

Chapter Five: Mexico
- Dilated Pupils
405p 5/19
- Surrogates
1019a 5/20
- Chinese Gardens
????p 5/??
- Psychonauts
250p 5/27
- A Retrospect at Godenholm
412p 6/4
- A Mushroom Symposium
1240p 6/8
- LSD Once More
210 —/—
- Peyote
1206p 6/11
- Refined Matter
1226 —/—
- Skepticism as Required
125 —/—

" in the beginning is the Word. It directs the progress, whether muscle or steam power electricity or radiation is employed for the work. The world of things, by contrast, is a fiction that would dissolve into smoke were it not regularly brought back to the word and to Poetic creation." -Mumford explains the literal scientific truth of this poetic claim in Technics & Human Development

EJ is often cryptic and allusive, like one who speaks while being overheard by sinister forces. When this is combined with a hamhanded English translation like the available version of "The Worker" he can be nearly unreadable. When translated well, as here, it's rather pleasant

Titans of 19th c germany ranked according to homosexuality from wagner (gayest straight man who ever walked the earth thru Mann (heroically repressed, source of his genius, bourgeoise paterfamilias) down to the lowly nietzsche.