Book 42: Hunger by Knut Hamsun
A disturbing novel of, well… hunger. It’s kind of an eating disorder-as-allegory-for-existential dread, artistic struggle, hopelessness, loneliness, self-humiliation, (?) trauma, and how modernity sucks. About a writer who rarely writes—or eats.
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Book 43: Goose of Hermogenes by Ithell Colquhoun.
Trippy modernist occult book full of startling imagery. Reminds me of other modernist occultists like HD, Pound, and eve Eliot, except Colquhoun’s using Hermetic magic and alchemy as mill-grist. https://t.co/8hT62eD7tL (Which is to say, I got the feeling I was missing a lot of references, in part because of the ones I managed to catch. There’s allegory based on the Magnus Clavis (“Great Work”) of alchemy, but I think there’s more I missed, too. Thanks @TheOtherJustin!)
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Book 43: Goose of Hermogenes by Ithell Colquhoun.
Trippy modernist occult book full of startling imagery. Reminds me of other modernist occultists like HD, Pound, and eve Eliot, except Colquhoun’s using Hermetic magic and alchemy as mill-grist. https://t.co/8hT62eD7tL (Which is to say, I got the feeling I was missing a lot of references, in part because of the ones I managed to catch. There’s allegory based on the Magnus Clavis (“Great Work”) of alchemy, but I think there’s more I missed, too. Thanks @TheOtherJustin!)