Occult Means Hidden wrote:This can actually be very constructive beyond just the discussion of this book. I've wanted to explore and record my dreams. Even struggling to remember them is a
challenge. Maybe this will be illuminating in that regard. Then we can have an RI dream experiment and each meet on the mountain of the Sun as our power animals!
I've found that extensive writing with my left hand stimulate vivid and easily remembered dreams of a bizarre and terrifying nature. But all dreams are like that. I'm glad I don't remember more of my dreams, although one of my first memories, might even be the very earliest, is of a dream I had. An elephant in striped pyjamas bungeeing from the ceiling, and a small chap in a cowl. Most alarming. I used to be in an internet group about lucid dreaming, they were always talking about ways to stop themselves waking up while in the dream, but every time I went lucid I immediately started desperately trying to wake up. Don't like dreams. Then again, waking reality is no better. If my earliest memory of a dream is terrifying, my earliest memories not of a dream are crying because it was my first day at school, wiping blood of my hand on the wall, being chased by a giant predatory feline (well, giant to little me), so memories and dreams are things I think you're better off without and you're foolish to want more of them, especially both together. Bit of a tip for you, though: left hand path, as I said above.
By structure I mostly mean going chapter by week and not skipping ahead. I guess Thursday night we'll have a roll call and and estimated time each can get the book. Of course it's open to anyone (even Morgan) at any time.
That's exactly what I object to. Reading books is fun, it should not be tamed. Read this book because we said so, read this chapter tomorrow, don't fall ahead, don't get behind.
marycarnival wrote:Stephen Morgan wrote:I suppose some people just can't do without structure.
Well, SM, dear, we can't have a 'book club' with people all over the world without a little, doncha think? The structure can be loose, we just have to agree on it...I don't want to discuss a part of the book that others haven't even read yet, y'know? In general, I can do just fine without structure, in fact I quite enjoy spontaneity.
You joining our merry crew, SM? C'mon Mr. Snarky, you know you want to....
And don't let him run you off, bks...C'mon! Book club! Book club! Book club!
First it's the chanting, then it's the flags, then it's the death camps. I'll stay in the corner with my obscure books of eighteenth century verse and imperial explorers, thankyou.