Well, here we are, and if you cast your eye over the room you will see that Tubes and trams and omnibuses, private carriages not a few, even, I venture to believe, landaus with bays in them, have been busy at it, weaving threads from one end of London to the other. Yet I begin to have my doubts —
If...
Friday, 21 August 2015
An Unwritten Novel - Virginia Woolf
Such an expression of unhappiness was enough by itself to make one’s eyes slide above the paper’s edge to the poor woman’s face — insignificant without that look, almost a symbol of human destiny with it. Life’s what you see in people’s eyes; life’s what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though...
A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf (Short Story)
A HAUNTED HOUSE
Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room
to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure — a
ghostly couple.
“Here we left it,” she said. And he added, “Oh, but here
too!” “It’s upstairs,” she murmured. “And in the garden,” he whispered...
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
A Psychedelic Experience - Fact or Fantasy? - Alan Watts
This essay appeared in LSD, The Consciousness-Expanding Drug David Solomon, Editor, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York ©David Solomon 1964
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Since at least 1500 B.C. men have, from time to time, held the...
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
MYTH AND THE MODERN WORLD
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. 1 don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being...
