Nothing is what it seems, everything is much less.
James Ellis
2023
Tag: Devore
After The Sun: Book Review
I found myself browsing copies of After The Sun every time I visited my local Waterstones. Eventually, I gave in and bought a copy. I should have done so sooner.
After The Sun is the second book by Jonas Eika and the first to be translated into English. It contains five short stories (the final story being a sequel to one of its predocessors).
Each story reads like a vivid dream about cryptic relationships, hypnotic addictions, and psychic callings taking place in various backdrops. The streets of Copenhagen, the bleak corners of London, and the beaches of Mexico all become roads to twisted underworlds.
Dark and intimate, the writings of Jonas Eika occupy a strange and uncharted space between the works of J.G. Ballard and Bret Easton Ellis.
Eika is a writer still at the beginning of his literary career. He has already gained critical acclaim and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I’m interested to see where this promising writer will go from here.
Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.
Emil Cioran
2024
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
John Zerzan
2024
To tell the truth, I couldn’t care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.
Emil Cioran
2024
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Lewis Mumford
2023
Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J.G. Ballard
2023
Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. Martin Heidegger
2023
Of Walking in Ice [Book Review]
In 1974 Werner Herzog was informed that his close friend Lotte Eisner was sick and possibly dying.
Determined to see his friend the auteur director set off on a pilgrimage from Munich to Paris on foot.
He departed on Saturday 23rd November and finally arrived on Saturday 14th December. Everyday he wrote an entry in a diary documenting his journey.
The diary was published in a thin volume titled “Of Walking in Ice,” which I found in a used book store then began on 23rd of November and finished on the 14th December, reading each entry forty-nine years after it was penned by Herzog.
Herzog describes the various sights he seen on his travels which he sometimes lists vaguely and other times describes in vivid and poetic detail.
He tells us of the pains he suffers, the harsh weather, the grim landscapes of desolate road sides and decaying villages, the strangers that watch him with curiosity and suspicion and his almost hallucinogenic day dreams.
Over all Herzog provides us with an account of a unique experience that is poetic, dreamlike and memorable.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2023
Parallel Aesthetics 