Finishing Mount Analogue tomorrow—pp. 74-end. Remember we meet at 7pm now.
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Reading for 2/27
Next week, we’ll start René Daumal’s Mount Analogue. Let’s go from pp. 21-74. We’ll change the time of our meeting to 7pm tonight and henceforth.
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Viewing for 2/20
No reading for you tomorrow. We’ll gather at 6:30pm (N.B.!) to watch Jodorowsky’s Fando and Lis. Just show up, bring some fare, and we’ll share in the time-magic that is cinema. Remember, 6:30pm!
Reading for 2/13
Having done with Ligotti: “Autopsy on a Puppet: An Anatomy of the Supernatural” (pp. 183-229).
Reading for 2/6
Pressing forward with Ligotti: “The Cult of Grinning Martyrs” (pp. 169-182).
Reading for 1/30
We resume our journey through Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror! This week, we are “Sick to Death,” pp.147-167
Reading for 1/23
This week we diverge into Aldous Huxley’s hugely influential 1954 essay, The Doors of Perception. Indispensable to all “heads.” Do not leave your head without it.
Reading for 1/16
Onward and upward with Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. This week: Freaks of Salvation, pp. 119-146.
Reading for 1/9
We continue with Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. This week we’ll discuss the second chapter, “Who Goes There?” pp.85-119.
Reading for 01/02/24
Onward with Thomas Ligotti’s oddly uplifting pessimistic work, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror! We’ll read the second half of the first chapter (“The Nightmare of Being”), pp.47-84.