note to self: re-read May 2007

I don’t think I was in the mood—I found myself annoyed as hell rather than amused and empathetic, and couldn’t keep watching.

Note to self:

Here’s his other book: http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Earth-Exploration-Ecopsychology/dp/1890482803/ref=pd_sim_b_5/103-7035108-6426253

Straight up ecopsychology, like David Abram.

Re-reading it now.

The cliche of a cliche (Warning, spoiler, if there is such a thing as a spoiler for a cliche: She’s rich, he’s poor, she goes to college, he goes to war, her mother wants them apart and hides his letters, she finds a rich guy, but then finds out about the letters and has some amusing dialogue with her mother and they come to An Understanding, and she ends up back with her old true love.) Kind of a made-for-tv feel, dangerous romantic misinformation about dementia, magical thinking. Love is real, y’all! Like, real real—no need to “romanticize” love by way of an unachievable fairy tale.

The title should read “I And Thou,” by Martin Buber, translator is Walter Kaufmann.

:( Had to give it back to the library
(note to self when I get it back: pg. 260)

Different version (unaltered/ not re-interpreted by editors)

What an incredible essay on Plato’s Symposium, and that’s just one of a collection of twelve short essays mostly on Greeks and rationalism, Freud, and Wittgenstein. A pleasure to read, stimulating and lacking that pedantic tone that’s all too goddamn common in academic writing.

Note to self:
Read Repetition only from this volume, Fear & Trembling from Penguin edition approx. 1 1/2 years ago.