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< i fought the web and...i won ^Â¥^
Congratulations on the big victory!
I still have all my ebooks in my hard drive.
For me it's different, though, I NEED them.
Just kidding, I don't really need them. In fact, I long for the day I read from the Big Book of Nature.
It could be any time.
But I choose to postpone it.
To build up knowledge,
to learn all I could learn about the world:
A bit of history,
a number of languages,
something or other here and there.
I quite like reading, I have a number of books that I ABSOLUTELY will read.
I am engaging in a study of magic
mysticism
alchemy.
I know it won't last forever.
The day will come when I will be ready to do away with all those books, and then I will just have a few books, those books that shall be good for a lifetime.
I will BUY them in paperback. I will cherish their physical form.
And I won't be needing any screen.
I won't be needing any screen.
For the time being, I appreciate the immateriality of ebooks, the huge library of background knowledge which will coalesce in the back of my mind. I learn to unlearn all that I was fed from childhood.
All those ideas about liberalism
of money
of modernity
Whatever the fuck. One has to read a lot to shed those dying shells of ideas.
Knowledge is all I seek, it's the only kind of wealth I know of.
That and the wealth of Nature.
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Sorry for copying your style, wolf. Somehow, it sticks.
haha
well, they say imitation is
the sincerest form of flattery
so i'll choose to flatter myself
yeah
i dabble a bit in the mystic spheres
there was a lot
that i had a hard time
parting with
although
having hall's secret teachings of all ages in print
much more satisfying
i want one of the early
musty and old
hardcover editions
in fact it's going to be fun searching for
old occult booka in print
like some sort of nick cage
sneakibg into secret society libraries
(more likely some
frail old man's disorganized
hole in the wall bookshop)
I propose we all start referring to that style as "wolfing it"!
On words and syntax
Form and prose
Perhaps a poet corner
A backroom of the pub, half open and separated by half bar
A new wing
Past the pool table middle rooms
Before the EXIT to cat-filled alley
A few seats and small tables
Soft, gentle smoke gliding through the air
Exhaling relief of/from the world
To have espresso or a heavier beverage
An homage to Horace
Making words for expression and wisdom