Your Book Review: On the Marble Cliffs
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Importance of Poetry in Junga's Life
Junga had long been inclined to deeply poetic descriptions of the real events he described, but this intensity at this length is genuinely new to his writing. The extreme language of this book made me doubt there would be any translation into English that could do it justice. Maybe the pretense of the narrator, not being himself, allowed Junga to wallow in his charismatic aestheticism taken to an extreme and arguably to the point of self-parody. After all, if you throw this last excerpt into deep L, you get, "After breaking through a dense fringe of blackthorn and cornets, we entered into the high forest"
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