Comments on: Lunacy http://www.theamericanbookofthedead.com/2010/03/07/lunacy/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:35:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: The Venus Project | The American Book of the Dead http://www.theamericanbookofthedead.com/2010/03/07/lunacy/comment-page-1/#comment-162 The Venus Project | The American Book of the Dead Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:25:57 +0000 http://www.theamericanbookofthedead.com/?p=732#comment-162 [...] I linked to a quote by David Foster Wallace that I don’t entirely agree with: Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end [...] [...] I linked to a quote by David Foster Wallace that I don’t entirely agree with: Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end [...]

]]> By: RW Hedges http://www.theamericanbookofthedead.com/2010/03/07/lunacy/comment-page-1/#comment-97 RW Hedges Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:34:15 +0000 http://www.theamericanbookofthedead.com/?p=732#comment-97 Right in there!!!! North of Sunset is a killer book because it hones in on the pleasure(for the reader) of celebrity death, breakdown and dementia.....The Vanity Plate killer(read the book to find out who he is) makes a glorious assassin because he aims at what so many of us think is inoffensive and not important enough to destroy....Other peoples Vanity!!! Who has that feeling that they might like to pull a gun when they see smiling celebrities going on about shoes and carpets??? Maybe some people arent phased but I think it might be because they are conditioned??? I dont have a television so when I see the clips above I am nearly sick but others may be infected and therefore immune and will say "I dont let it bother me, lifes too short" etc....Bullshit! Lifes too short to not let it bother you!! Great post Henry! right up my street... Heres my two cents: "nowadays more and more people, especially those who live in large cities, suffer from a terrible emptiness and boredom as if they were waiting for something that never arrives. Movies, television, spectator sports and political excitements may divert them for a while, but again and again, exhausted and disentchanted they have to return to the wasteland of their own lives. The only adventure that is worthwhile for modern man lies in the inner realm of the unconcious psyche...' Joseph L. Henderson under guidance of Carl.G.Jung from the book 'Man and his symbols' first published 1964 Once you've got hold of North of Sunset and The Golden Calf you can always follow it with Man and his symbols...... Right in there!!!!
North of Sunset is a killer book because it hones in on the pleasure(for the reader) of celebrity death, breakdown and dementia…..The Vanity Plate killer(read the book to find out who he is) makes a glorious assassin because he aims at what so many of us think is inoffensive and not important enough to destroy….Other peoples Vanity!!!
Who has that feeling that they might like to pull a gun when they see smiling celebrities going on about shoes and carpets???
Maybe some people arent phased but I think it might be because they are conditioned??? I dont have a television so when I see the clips above I am nearly sick but others may be infected and therefore immune and will say “I dont let it bother me, lifes too short” etc….Bullshit! Lifes too short to not let it bother you!!
Great post Henry! right up my street… Heres my two cents:
“nowadays more and more people, especially those who live in large cities, suffer from a terrible emptiness and boredom as if they were waiting for something that never arrives. Movies, television, spectator sports and political excitements may divert them for a while, but again and again, exhausted and disentchanted they have to return to the wasteland of their own lives. The only adventure that is worthwhile for modern man lies in the inner realm of the unconcious psyche…’

Joseph L. Henderson under guidance of Carl.G.Jung

from the book ‘Man and his symbols’ first published 1964

Once you’ve got hold of North of Sunset and The Golden Calf you can always follow it with Man and his symbols……

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