What are you reading now??

bhoour

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Yes, well he wrote the book on mescline..an experiment of sorts...

I took my pill at eleven. An hour and a half later, I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers-a full-blown Belie of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-colored carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all the rules of traditional good taste.

I continued to look at the flowers, and in their living light I seemed to detect the qualitative equivalent of breathing -but of a breathing without returns to a starting point, with no recurrent ebbs but only a repeated flow from beauty to heightened beauty, from deeper to ever deeper meaning. Words like "grace" and "transfiguration" came to my mind, and this, of course, was what, among other things, they stood for.

Perhaps some mescline might be in order :lol: :lol:

Could be fun .....in a trippy kind of way.......if you do it right!!!

I know a 16 yr old kid that read this and then tried it out himself, but with every drug you can think of and combinations of........his parents found his "drug journal", this past Aug. after he drowned while on Crystal Meth. Very sad, and quite troubled by it, as was this young
man was.


As for what I'm reading Four Feathers by A.E.W Mason. I was told it's good ( I haven't seen the movie) ,but am having trouble getting into it.
:roll: sigh.
 

Hard-Luck Henry

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"Everything is Illuminated" by Johnathan Safran Foer.

(And I've got "The Bedside Book of Birds" by Graeme Gibson by my bedside, courtesy of a certain legume from The Island. 8) )
 

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Currently reading "America: A Narrative History" by Gerge Brown Tindall.

Adams was great.

Was disappointed in the movie, loved the old English TV series.
 

Jay

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"Adams was great."


I downloaded some of his stuff on MP3.
 

Jay

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What happened to the book I recommended for you to read?
 

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Re: RE: What are you reading now??

Jay said:
What happened to the book I recommended for you to read?

The book is over 1300 pages, I need a break now and then and not an easy read. I'm on page 600 something. Next time think of something with fewer pages, dam you! :p
 

Jay

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It isn't an easy read at all. I haven't made it as far as you have. It's good though, eh?


Next time I will recommend a "Curious George" book. Boy does that monkey get into trouble! :p
 

I think not

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Jay said:
It isn't an easy read at all. I haven't made it as far as you have. It's good though, eh?


Next time I will recommend a "Curious George" book. Boy does that monkey get into trouble! :p

It's very good, I will have to read it a couple of times at least to absorb it.

I think by the time I'm finished with it, I'll forget page 1. :p
 

Summer

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Re: RE: What are you reading now??

Colpy said:
Currently reading "America: A Narrative History" by Gerge Brown Tindall.

Adams was great.

Was disappointed in the movie, loved the old English TV series.

The movie disappointed me greatly. I did see a few episodes of the BBC TV series ages ago.... pretty good! I really liked the BBC radio series - those were awesome!
 

Jay

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I think not said:
Jay said:
It isn't an easy read at all. I haven't made it as far as you have. It's good though, eh?


Next time I will recommend a "Curious George" book. Boy does that monkey get into trouble! :p

It's very good, I will have to read it a couple of times at least to absorb it.

I think by the time I'm finished with it, I'll forget page 1. :p

Like I said before, it is a reference book.

I like the way he described civilization influences and such, in the beginning of the book.
 

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Jay said:
I think not said:
Jay said:
It isn't an easy read at all. I haven't made it as far as you have. It's good though, eh?


Next time I will recommend a "Curious George" book. Boy does that monkey get into trouble! :p

It's very good, I will have to read it a couple of times at least to absorb it.

I think by the time I'm finished with it, I'll forget page 1. :p

Like I said before, it is a reference book.

I like the way he described civilization influences and such, in the beginning of the book.

See what I mean, I forgot about that already! :lol:
 

Jay

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Other than some quotes, it's the only part I remember!