What are you reading right now?

[lightningBugout]

[Penguin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall_Watson

[smiths]

just finished Zorba the Greek, brilliant

[Nordic]

A book on Frank Lloyd Wright. Did you know at age 42 he left his first wife (and six kids) for a married woman whose last name was Cheney? And when they were living together in his stupendous new house on a hillside in Wisconsin, she and her children (she was married when they met, with kids) were slaughtered by a chef gone mad?

And he continued to live in the house where his new woman and her children were brutally murdered?

Made me think of that Wendingo thread. Also made me wonder if his wife, who refused to give him a divorce to marry the Cheney woman, wished this upon him, then wondered how she felt when it happened ....

[monster]

Found at the thrift store:

[Jeff]

Oh let me not be proud, dear Lord,
Nor rank myself above
The other Primates, through whose genes
We grew into your Love.

A million million years, Your Days,
Your methods past discerning,
Yet through Your blend of DNAs
Came passion, mind, and learning.

We cannot always trace Your path
Through Monkey and Gorilla,
Yet all are sheltered underneath
Your Heavenly Umbrella.

And if we vaunt and puff ourselves
With vanity and pride,
Recall Australopithecus,
Our Animal inside.

So keep us far from worser traits,
Agression, anger, greed;
Let us not scorn our lowly birth,
Nor yet our Primate seed.

[stefano]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall_Watson

Nice! Glad you got that one, I remember you're a fan of Sheldrake. Watson's a far better writer, he's got the gift of poetry that this subject matter requires. And, crucially to me, his laboratory was the whole world. I finished Lifetide a few months ago, I've got Beyond Supernature lying around.

Right now I'm switching between Maps of Time and Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

http://www.amazon.com/Air-America-Story ... rd_title_0

Air America: The Story of the CIA'S Secret Airlines, From WWII to Vietnam
published 1979 by Christopher Robbins

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall_Watson

CIA disinformation.

One of the first books to peddle the decoy of CIA interrogation under torture of Yuri Nosenko called...'The Secret Life of Plants.'

"Plants." Get it?

[AlicetheKurious]

With the heated "Precious" thread still fresh in my mind, I was in a bookstore when this book caught my eye:

Slavery by Another Name: the Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to WWII

Ironically, it was written by a Wall Street Journal Bureau Chief, so I approached it warily. I'm still in the first third of the book, but it's one hell of an eye-opener about the realities vs the myths surrounding the "emancipation" of African-Americans after the Civil War.

Bottom line, there was NO emancipation: instead of being owned by White plantation owners, Black people were simply arrested on trumped-up charges and then were 'leased' by the state to work indefinitely under horrific conditions in industries, to work off their prison 'debts', which just kept piling up. This widespread practice combined with the periodic lynchings and other random racist attacks against Black communities to keep them effectively enslaved long after they were supposedly freed.

The author specifically compares the total silence of the United States government about how some of America's most important industries owe their growth to the labour of captive Black slaves, with that same government's determination to obtain reparations for Jewish slaves used by the Nazis' enterprises in WWII.

I'll discuss the book further when I've finished reading it.

[Alaya]

Oh let me not be proud, dear Lord,
Nor rank myself above
The other Primates, through whose genes
We grew into your Love.

A million million years, Your Days,
Your methods past discerning,
Yet through Your blend of DNAs
Came passion, mind, and learning.

We cannot always trace Your path
Through Monkey and Gorilla,
Yet all are sheltered underneath
Your Heavenly Umbrella.

And if we vaunt and puff ourselves
With vanity and pride,
Recall Australopithecus,
Our Animal inside.

So keep us far from worser traits,
Agression, anger, greed;
Let us not scorn our lowly birth,
Nor yet our Primate seed.

Me too, gots it fer Christmas.

[jingofever]

[IanEye]

so, jingo, you basically have illustrated editions of both the old and new testaments now, huh?

[Username]

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Amazon




A copy for you here.
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[AhabsOtherLeg]

I'm now reading "Watching The Door," by Kevin Myers, about his experiences of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland. It's a good book, and I have a feeling of almost-trust for the the writer - but apparently, by his own account, he was present at every major event that occurred, and furthermore was given full access by both Loyalist and Republican groups, and the RUC and Army, despite being a Dublin journo with an English accent and zero clout.

Which just makes me think he's either bullshitting or he's SAS.

Though I could well believe that the leaders and security personnel of each faction were as laughably dumb as he says, it's still a stretch to think that he attended every bombing and execution ever (and still denies the phenomenon of secret religious burials - which were common).

It's interesting and painful anecdotal stuff, but I still think "The Dirty War" by Martin Dillon is the most unbiased and in-depth account of what went on. All sides will still disagree, naturally.