I think vonnegut pretty much immediately goes to dick size lol. He also mentions comments on the dick size of the main character in slaughterhouse five

just started reading the biography of a fellow countryman.

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Thanks! All I knew is that in an autobiographical essay from 1979, Angela Carter writes about being raised by a larger-than-life yarn-spinning Yorkshire matriarch of a grandmother, and makes a humorous reference to the "family talent for magical realism" - so I gathered the term must have been well entrenched by the late 1970s, especially after Carter's own The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) and The Passion of New Eve (1977). Thanks very much for this more precise information.

I concur. Histories of prog rock that aren't just either wankoffs to particular artists or lists of albums are damned hard to come by.

Edit: And now I have it. Thanks Rostasi!

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Reading at the moment for research:
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal. Though I think the description of who he was is a little superfluous in the title. I mean, if you somehow don't know who Stoker was, why are you reading a biography of him? Good so far though.

Yes, you’re welcome. It’s a good 600+ pages with smallish type
and, yes, with something as detailed as this there are going to
be some mistakes, but overall, it’s a great read!

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I've been meaning to pick this up for awhile now just cause I love the author's podcast, Lions Led by Donkeys, and it's just as funny as I was hoping. His less than stellar experiences in Afghanistan.

Is that right, Marie? Good for Vonnegut! Slaughterhouse 5 is another book that I have largely forgotten - unless that is the one in which numerous paragraphs are concluded with the irritating sentence, "So it goes." Because of that one stylistic trick, I've avoided reading him ever since.

You're welcome, jadis! I'm not familiar with Angela Carter, and certainly had no idea that she was part of some early Yorkshire tradition of magic realism.
Thanks for the info.
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:laughing: That quote is a great indication of what I imagine is the real-life muddle of war, so often left out of the movies and history books.

Ken Wilber’s „Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life of Treya Killam Wilber”

I’ve had a hard time finding the english title, as in Polish it’s called „The Mortal Immortals” (or whatever you’d translate it to)


As most of things I do or read or write I started reading it through sheer luck, and then immediately saw the coincidence (in my life) in that I’m reading it now.

I’m having quite the hard time in my relationship currently, and this book really gives me he creeps on how accurate it is in describing the different aspects of thought of both people in romance (in the book you have the diaries/written notes of Treya, and commentaries and diaries of Wilber)
Though you could say the cancer is slowly eating up our relationship (certainly not her...[though one could argue]).

It is.



And that’s why i loved it.

It just shows the fragility of human life/psyche and shows how to deal with it

(It’s just the way things are...what can you do about it? Better just acceot and Move on)