what are you reading now?

[catalog]

yyal it's not snow but i would try a dickens if i were you. he is one of the best writers on the weather i've ever read, he brings it in really well. and he's a joy to read. ive only read bleak house but would recc it - there's an amazing opening about the smog and then later on, the snow/cold does actually play a massive part in the denouement

 

[luka]

I've already told him what to read that discussion is over sorry

 

[catalog]

i'm struggling with invisibles a bit, if im honest

 

[luka]

You're vibrational frequency is too low you need to do a big dose of mushrooms on your own

 

[catalog]

i was actually thinking of doing that. i took 3 drops but 2 straight after dinner then a top off. i reckon 5 all in one go with no food for 8 hours previous is the way to go

 

[luka]

Yeah you have to take it seriously and you have to commit or its disrespectful you're not supposed to 'have a laugh'

 

[catalog]

yeah we definitely treated it as a laugh, went to the pub, laughed our arses off, walked on the beach looking at ripples. i agree a travesty. i did say to the others at one point, 'we need to ask the mushroom questions' but they just laughed at me and started eating blue cheese

 

[luka]

Your mates are awful we've established that they probably made you watch UFC fights on the comedown while you were delicate and vulnerable.

 

[yyaldrin]

yyal it's not snow but i would try a dickens if i were you. he is one of the best writers on the weather i've ever read, he brings it in really well. and he's a joy to read. ive only read bleak house but would recc it - there's an amazing opening about the smog and then later on, the snow/cold does actually play a massive part in the denouement

thanks, i'll have a look into dickens! i fear it might be too difficult (too archaic maybe?) for me but in terms of atmosphere i think it's what i'm looking for yes.

 

[IdleRich]

Dickens is no more difficult than Lermontov surely.

 

[catalog]

yeah dickens is really easy and enjoyable to read and it's also short chapters.

 

[luka]

thanks, i'll have a look into dickens! i fear it might be too difficult (too archaic maybe?) for me but in terms of atmosphere i think it's what i'm looking for yes.

Yes it's too difficult. That's why I recommended a classic children's book. I reread it last Christmas. It's incredible.

 

[catalog]

well you could have your cake and eat it if you went for 'a christmas carol'??

 

[luka]

Dickens is no more difficult than Lermontov surely.

He'd read Dickens in English but wouldn't read Lermontov in English. He's foreign. He's a Dutchman.

 

[catalog]

Your mates are awful we've established that they probably made you watch UFC fights on the comedown while you were delicate and vulnerable.

have i already told you this story already, how we went to sankeys once and when we came home they put pig porn and fighting on?

 

[luka]

I find really upsetting you have to hang around people like that. Cut all ties and move to London. There's no hope in the North. Version too, his mates are like Dirty Sanchez. It leaves massive scarring on your psyche having to endure that.

 

[luka]

Wilful brutal idiocy, unrelenting psychic and emotional violence.

 

[craner]

All the things you admire Australians for.

 

[luka]

No wonder you spend all your time alone poking around some horrible grubby bit of woodland, dodging doggers, photographing fungi and lichens

 

[luka]

All the things you admire Australians for.

The sun changes everything. It becomes a celebration of the Life Force. Not a Degradation Ceremony. Grinding wotsits into your mates scalp while he's passed out covered in piss and vomit,