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Rene Daumal was one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century; a poet, philosopher, and scholar of religion and Sanskrit. He wrote many essays on religion and philosophy, trained himself in Oriental languages, and engaged in drug experiments.
He died of tuberculosis in , at the age of thirty-six. Average customer rating 5 1 comments. A grande beuverie used as a device for delivering a brilliant philosophical exploration of heaven and hell. If you are remotely fond of philosophy, satire, drunks, or just witty surrealist ramblings, then you will definitely enjoy this book.
Receive an email when this ISBN is available used. COM Terms There are words which freeze But at the very end of the production line in this laboratory of mine sits a Scienter who is quite unique. Three thousand brains in one. His function is to collect all the data and clarifications written up by the specialist Scienters. When he has collated everything, he is convinced that he has clasped the red rabbit or the essential man entire to his understanding. There you are, you can see him from here,' he ended, with a sign to one of his assistants who brought me a pair of binoculars.
I put them to my eyes and, indeed, at the far end of the gallery, I saw the Omniscienter.
There he was, an enormous cranial dome with a tiny, shapeless, crumpled face, which seemed to me to be hanging by the ears from the two ebony knobs on the back of a raised throne. Swinging to and fro beneath this head was a little cloth puppet which dangled its empty trouser legs over the crimson plush seat.
His tiny right arm was kept aloft by means of a wire, and the index finger rested on his temple in the gesture of one who knows.
He said it was "very good for the breath": One night, I had this terrifying dream. A huge corkscrew, which was the earth, was spinning round, turning on its axis and twisting in its own spiral, just like the signs outside American barbershops, and I could see myself, no bigger than a bug but not hanging on so well, slither and stumble over the helix, and with my thoughts sent whirling down moving staircases made of a priori shapes.
Suddenly, the fatal moment, there is a loud crack, my neck snaps, I fall flat on my face and I emerge in a splash of sparks before the Kaffir who had come to wake me. He says: "Did you have an attack of the nasties, then?
Come and look at this": And he leads me to the pigeon loft and gets me to peep through a hole in the wall. I put my eye to it. I see a terrifying sight: a huge corkscrew, which was the Earth, was spinning round, turning on its axis and twisting in its own spiral, just like the signs outside American barbershops, and I could see myself, no bigger than a bug, but not hanging on so well He spoke feverishly, mangling his words.
I listened, paralyzed with horror, at least ten times to his appalling rotating story. Le Contre-Ciel Rene Daumal.
Rene Daumal. An unnamed narrator spends an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. A night of serious drinking Rene Daumal. New Hardcover Quantity Available: 2. New Hardcover Quantity Available: 1. I imagined a line of spiders, creeping along.
Review quote "Presents a clear, truthful language in which intense human warmth establishes and commingles two elements too often apart--poetic fervor and philosophical insolence. About Rene Daumal Rene Daumal was one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century; a poet, philosopher, and scholar of religion and Sanskrit.
He wrote many essays on religion and philosophy, trained himself in Oriental languages, and engaged in drug experiments. He died of tuberculosis in , at the age of thirty-six.
A Night of Serious Drinking () is an allegorical novel by the French surrealist writer René Daumal detailing what is ostensibly an extremely simple plot in. A Night Of Serious Drinking Paperback – April 1, A Night of Serious Drinking is among Rene Daumal's most important literary works. Like Daumal’s Mount Analogue it is a classic work of symbolic fiction.
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