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Osie

Osie

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http://theforlornpath.blogspot.com
  • Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • member since September 16, 2007

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  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    Just, wanting to say,

    HELLO'

    Jas

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    How are you Osie ? No sign of any activity from you here or on blog. I'm waiting with bated breath for your next post. Will it be a book or a film or a surprise ? But maybe life in general or reading another Russian novel is taking a greater demand on your attention. All the best, Kevin

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    WEll done Osie reading those, i left a humorous statement about that on the Sir T.B. page here. hope you stay o track for visiting London next year. I read Ken Kesey's 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' and was surprised to encounter several plot differences to Milos Foreman's film. Nevertheless a truly great American novel, there's a short stream-of-consciousness near the end equal to anything by William Faulkner.

    Are you still big on Gogol and Russian lit. in general?

    I've also read Ken Follett's 'The Pillars of the Earth' a light but long read and a hilrious novel by the American author Robert Coover's 'Pinnochio in Venice' which develops the Pinocchio myth in an at time rude but also moving way. I first read it in 1991 and was happy to find it for 1 pence (£2.75 post) on Amazon.

    I have also found a possible illustrative source to the Layer Monument which i will be revealing soon, so don't worry if you don't hear for a while, I am simply digging and delving new literary and esoteric discoveries to share with like-minded appreciative folk such as yourself !

    London 2012 eh? see you then Osie ! (Check the Sir T.B. page entry to read about your being awarded the Dr. Browne Quincunx reading medal for 2011).

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    As for the Royal Wedding well i seem to remember we had a Tory government and an economic Recession 30 years ago when Charles and Di married, a bit of jingoistic nonsense easily distracts the plebs from their woe and oppression. You guys seem to be crazy about it all though!

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Osi my man ! Sorry for the delay in replying .

    'The Castle of Otranto' is as you say real roots Gothic literature from whence 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' spring forth.

    It seems to me that Russian authors have the best sense of humour , so many have made me laugh out loud, perhaps it's because of the severe living conditions they endured that humour was necessary to survive. Mikhail Bulgakov's 'Heart of a dog' is a very short but hilarious read about a dog changed into a man. Goncharov's 'Oblomov' is a much longer read of the trials of an aristocrat's life, and of course Gogol's short stories including 'The Nose' are all worth reading. Without checking your reading contents I can't remember if you've read Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita' it's THE Russian occult novel of the 20th century, very funny and profound.

    You are dead right Swankmajer is not unlike Jodorwosky .

    Recently i read 'The Crimson petal and the White' by Michel Faber, inspired by the BBC TV series, a profound critique of male sexuality in Victorian times. At present I am reading a vastly under-rated American author, Robert Coover. his 'Pinocchio in Venice' is very rude and funny.

    Thanks for keeping in touch, Osie, always happy to correspond with another stimulating reader, Kevin

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    May be worthwhile asking SEZO to be a friend and ask about Agrippa's 3 books of occult philosophy, it's in print so not difficult to acquire as she has read it !

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Hi Osie ! What did you make of the Gothic classic 'The Castle' ? I believe it was an influence upon the Film-maker Jan Swankmajer. Quite a hard-going text I believe, none too-smooth or what ?

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Hi ya Osie !

    I think the detail about Rasputin comes from my interest in Arthur Dee. It's mentioned in Lindsay Abraham's book on Dee's alchemical writings. I keep waiting for Daedalus publishers to reprint Meyrinck's 'Angel of the West Window' a novel on John Dee. I guess my home city has a few connections with the esoteric, most fascinating of all is Peter French's observation that Dee's glyph the Monas Hieroglyphica share similarities with Browne's Quincunx as a kind of hermetic mandala.

    Glad you enjoyed the Bruisov novel. My favourite esoteric novels include Ouspensky's 'The strange tale of Ivan Osokin', Bulgakov's ' The Master and Margarita' and, (this one's not so esoteric, but is also Russian and a good variant of the Frankenstein story) the short novella by Bulgakov entitled 'Heart of a Dog' quite funny in places too.

    The world lurches from crisis to crisis, people continue to go hungry when there is plenty for everyone and the planet is slowly dying from exploitation, I don't know for how much longer we will have the luxury of reading and communicating to each other, but enjoy it while it lasts !

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Osie ! good to hear from you. I reviewed Bruisov's 'the Fiery Angel' recently on my blog. I would imagine the Agrippa is quite difficult to obtain, it was naturally one of the first books to be published under the new Protectorate of Cromwell in 1651. Another difficult to obtain book is Meyrinck's 'Angel of the West window' based on the life of john Dee. I seem to have a list of novels based on esoteric themes somewhere, including the excellent 'Strange life of Ivan Osokin' by Ouspensky, 'The Magus' by john Fowles and perhaps the very best of them all , Bulgakov's 'the Master and Margarita'. It would seem that 'The fiery angel' bedeviled the Russian composer Prokofiev, he never lived to see a production of his opera based on the novel in his life-time for one reason or another.

    As for understanding 'Urn-Burial' well according to Jung alchemists cared little about comprehensibility, not knowing themselves what they were writing about at times! But basically it's a discourse on man's greatest fear, death, beliefs on the after-life and methods of disposing of the corporal body, cheerful stuff ! It's just that the style is so antiquated to understand, not necessarily your fault. Mush dash !

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • pixie_dust

    pixie_dust says

    Hi :)

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Osie !

    Er, actually i thought the first two pages of 'Heart of Darkness the most concise, amazingly modern prose for 1902.

    i recommend you check out the blog ' Beauty for Ashes' its link on my blog for some very sympathetic Christian loose-denomination appreciation of Browne's tolerant theology in Laurie's reviewing of R.M.

    Garden is difficult enough without early edition fonts! Don't get lost in the jungle of technical botanical observations at its heart in chap. 3. Urn is considered to be the stylistic superior, but both have highly condensed imagery, are plexiformed in their symbolism, multi-polarised in theme and utterly mystical. My 1658 edition has the two dedicatory epistles following each other, couldn't be a stronger indication intended as a diptych, indeed the notion that God made everything double and
    'Thomas' meaning twin not implausible clues. Join me on the Browne page here for more !!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Hi Osie ! Well good luck with R.M. the first nine sections are heavy theology. How did you get on with Cyrus. I was hoping you'd read Urn-Burial with Cyrus as together the two works create an unconscious synergy in imagery and polarity in the readers mind. Hinting at some clue to their alchemical nature. Browne is, as you discovered, not easy to read, but extremely reading. I am presently attempting to organize an essay-competition with a big cash prize on Browne . Now reading Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' a classic.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Interesting that Blackwood should write about Pan in hi short story A touch of Pan' just as Arthur Machen in his ' Thr Great god Pan. I need to find another volume of Blackwood now, Mr. Des Esseintes USA.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Soror (I believe

    Soror (I believe"Laa-ilaaha-illallah") says

    Hi !
    how are you doing?
    am fin Thanks Allah almighty
    thank you to pass by me and ask
    have a nice day

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    The very, very, first word I read when opening Blackwood's first story 'The Dance of death?' 'Browne', amazing! Apparently Marcel Proust had the same fear as described by Huysmans whenever planning to visit Venice, the Venice in his mind never living up to the idea of reality. Feel free to add anything about Browne on the 'Cyrus' discussion page. Skip chapter 3 if just too technical, but there are scattered in it short thoughts upon the Kabbala.

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  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Hi Osie! I notice that you've just finished reading Huysman's 'A Rebours' a great decadent cult classic I've read a few times now. We were all crazy on it in our early 20's, it does have some funny passages too, such as the painted tortoise and the orchestral liqueurs. Did you like it much ? The other Huysman's novel worth reading is of course 'La-Bas' or 'Down there'.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    As the rasta singer sung long ago 'England is a b***h ( a banned word on shelfari!) That's okay if you're busy Osie and December is a busy month for you, in your own time. No hurry, anytime early 2011. I will be interested to hear what you think of 'Cyrus' don't worry it took me several years before the penny finally dropped with it, I now believe it to be the finest example of the alchemical imagination in operation, densely-loaded with esoteric imagery, it deliberately plays upon the reader's understanding, Coleridge and De Quincey were crazy on it. I will open a discussion on it on the Sir T.B. page here.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Happy to see Blackwood use the phrase 'spiritual alchemy', in a story dated 1908. Must be one of the earliest ever uses of such a phrase, so thanks again Osie for the recommendation.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Hi Osie! I started reading Blackwood and am enjoying him so thanks for the recommendation, I'll write more when I've finished the book of short stories.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Hydriotaphia

    Hydriotaphia says

    Thanks for joining the Sir T.B reading group. Whether he's your cup of tea or have time to read him is another matter, but would value any observations you make on him posted on his page. Actually now that I remember, you said you were having a bash at his most difficult work 'Garden of Cyrus' in some kind of facsimile, way to go, Osie! I'm still waiting for a loan of Blackwood.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
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