Last written thing that mangled your swede good and proper?
Thu, 2002-04-04 11:02
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Last written thing that mangled your swede good and proper?
Have you ever had the experience of reading something and feeling the contours of your mind shifting? It's like having your view of the world or yourself forcibly rearranged, mangled, twisted... That slightly vertagious feeling where a writer is really messing with your head/messing with the world. An almost physical response to ideas.
I had that reading Ronnie Laing. I had that reading Philip K. Dick. Had that reading Sylvia Plath. Semiotics does that. Far reaches of psychology does that.
The unsettling nature of ideas that makes you want to throw the book into the corner of the room and shout "Stop it, jst stop messing with the stability of my thought!"
Does anyone else get that, and what writing does it?
zyv
The trouble with being 104 is that you've already been there, read that, got the dust jacket. Remembering back to the days of my youth, Ken Kesey's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (the book doesn't have Jack Nicholson in it, which makes it so much better) was most unsettling, as was 'The Story of O' (Pauline Reage), Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut), The Dice Man, and so many more. Prior to that I had survived exclusively on a diet of sci-fi, so anything nourishing and full of mental vitamins was a blast.
LSD does it so much quicker, though.
Babewithbrains
"The Picture of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde does it every time...
skydolphin
Master and Margarita by Bulgakov! devil saves us from untalented! and I thought devil didn't save anybody from anything........ ;o)