Books

Books I started reading this week:
- BC Han: Burnout Society (been meaning to also read this for awhile. Loved Agony of Eros)
- Lispector: Água Viva (honestly, I want to cherish reading this book, I have to restrain myself. this is the kind of book that’s not quiet poetry, but it makes me want to eat her words, slowly)

Just finished Água Viva, here are some thoughts:

Really great book. I read it slowly. I savored it. Didn't want it to end. Slowly. Reminded me a lot of Passion According to G.H. It's probably because it is the same author. Let me talk a bit about what it feels like for a bit

Pure Lispector. Wandering, intense, existential, full of Eros, and violence of the mind. The words are beautiful. I frequently found myself reading it more like poetry. Savouring words, not reading quickly (it's short 80 pages or so) and you just read it, sit with it, live with it, shoot arrows, drink milk, wash your hands, do all the normal things people do. It's the kind of book that wedges into spaces in your life that is absent minded. It's almost a lot more unconscious than it is conscious

Great book - it had a lot of great lines, great paragraphs, great words. It's not a book that's for everyone. If I had read it 5 years ago - I'd dismissed this book as being complete and utter gibberish. Yeah, that's just how it goes

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /july /faust

"All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass."

oh this is what i meant to link

https://farcaster.xyz/july/0xf4a45dc0

great book

https://farcaster.xyz/july/0xcfd6c610

An ex of mine recommended “Gravity and Grace” by Simone Weil after reading GH—a book that’s easy to savor and saunter through too