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Books I’ve read In June: - Psychopolitics, Byung-Chul Han - Vita Contemplativa, Byung-Chul Han - The Disappearence of ritual, byung-chul han - The Wild Iris, Louise Glück (not really reading, more like savoring) - Água Viva, Clarice Lispector (jesus christ) - Zen in the art of archery, Eugen Herrigel - The Burnout Society, Byung-Chul Han - In the Dark Places of Wisdom, Peter Kingsley - The Agony of Eros, Byung-Chul Han

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I have a lot of favorites here. As you can see I’ve been reading a lot of BCH. But I honestly think, no i just feel Lispector reading her feels like drowning in a sea of Eros. Underrated? Tell me about it

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I keep coming back this idea but books are like people you love, or lovers or friends or coworkers they show up when you need them to not when you want them. In so many of these instances books find me more than I find them.

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I think I mentioned it once before but I’ll mention it again. There are so many other books that my logical and rational mind wants to read right now that would help me with the business or start up or blah blah blah whatever. And yet… Here I am reading poetry. If I try to even explain this to myselfin another mind state, I may have puked

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Even more mind-boggling is I’d rather be reading nothing else. So there is that I guess I’m just following what I need to read right now in my life and here I am.

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also I always wanted to read poetry by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska hope her work will find me soon

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I‘d love to read more poetry tbh but I never managed and/or learnt to access it in a way I used to enjoy reading poetry by Rupi Kaur, but after a short while it became so overhyped and instagramable that I lost interest

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one day you’ll pick up The Futurelogical Congress and devour it in a few hours. I feel it in ny bones.

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