"Books without a shelf, 2005"
I figure I’ve read about 1/3 of the books in my library, 1/3 are unread and 1/3 are in process. I’ll often pick up a book and read it for a while before my interest plateaus and I set it aside. At any given time I might have more than twenty books with bookmarks in them.
Right now, I’m rereading Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By, which I read during my early twenties while in college. It is even more engaging and enlightening now. Myths ties-in nicely with Greil Marcus’ Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, which I’m finally finishing from several years ago.
It’s interesting to relate Marcus’ chronicle — of the various attempts at negating the ills of Modern Life by the Surrealist, Dada, Lettrist, Situationist and Punk movements — to Campbell’s exploration of ancient art, mythology and philosophy, particularly regarding the deemphasis of individuality in the Eastern tradition. Good stuff.
I figure I’ve read about 1/3 of the books in my library, 1/3 are unread and 1/3 are in process. I’ll often pick up a book and read it for a while before my interest plateaus and I set it aside. At any given time I might have more than twenty books with bookmarks in them.
Right now, I’m rereading Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By, which I read during my early twenties while in college. It is even more engaging and enlightening now. Myths ties-in nicely with Greil Marcus’ Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, which I’m finally finishing from several years ago.
It’s interesting to relate Marcus’ chronicle — of the various attempts at negating the ills of Modern Life by the Surrealist, Dada, Lettrist, Situationist and Punk movements — to Campbell’s exploration of ancient art, mythology and philosophy, particularly regarding the deemphasis of individuality in the Eastern tradition. Good stuff.