Ade Bailey

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A Doctor's Line: Poetry and Prescriptions in Health and Healing

by Kenneth C. Calman

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Ade Bailey said: " Sir Kenneth Calman has held many distinguished positions including Chief Medical Officer posts in Scotland and England. He has much experience practising and teaching medicine.

This book is a delightful survey of Scottish literature in its relationshi ...more "

Nov 19, 2014 06:38AM · see review

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Etc Etc Amen

by Howard Male (Goodreads Author)

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Ade Bailey said: " OK. Howard Male (the author) contacted me on goodreads and asked me to read this book. I understand he's messaged others. These aren't generic messages; he's been through my reading lists and refers to them as preparing me for this book of his.

This w OK. Howard Male (the author) contacted me on goodreads and asked me to read this book. I understand he's messaged others. These aren't generic messages; he's been through my reading lists and refers to them as preparing me for this book of his.

This wonderful, hilarious, surreal romp. Not quite finished but the highest compliment I can give it is it's precisely the sort of book some maladjusted inner readerly miser wants to keep for itself. It's satirical and contemporary, its targets are brilliantly intertwined music industries, architecture, big corporations, the corrupt insanity of new age cults (though 'new age' is too thin here: the age of the Knowing Unknowing Universe is the 'now age').

The KUU stems from the writings of faded crazy music star Zachary B, disintegrating before our eyes as his drug-fuelled soul wilts under the realisation that the public see him more as Gary Glitter than Bowie. The theses he left, or hypotheses to be unprecise in a theory of everything where 'maybe' is the basis of an existential edifice based totally uncertainty. What follows from the original sacred text is its mediation and appropriation etc. etc.

Alarmingly, I have found myself taking seriously some of the hypotheses of the KUU. It has made me think. Or unthink.

My guess is that someone will accidentally read this review, later in the day meet a cat called Zachary, and then read in the London Review of Books a long essay considering the ethics of re-releasing Gary Glitter's greatest hits. This 'cosmic nudge' will set in motion events without a cause.

I hope Male has a good legal team. There is a slimy businessman who has 'V' as his trademark. Started in music, went on to planes, trains and whatever. Had a building built to image the V trademark. A common foundation and two blocks leaning away from each other, it came quickly to be known as the 'Fuck You Building'. All a mere detail, a throwaway conceit in this cross-genre, cross-dressing cock and bull tale that is scalpel-sharp-modern and at the same time permeated with the spirit of Cervantes and Sterne. It will seriously mess with your head. Seriously. ...more "

Feb 15, 2014 05:04AM · see review

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The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat

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Ade’s Quotes

“The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

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“Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die. ”
― Walter Kaufmann

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“The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”
― Henry Wallace

tags: fascism, fox-news, media, politics, press, propaganda

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“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”
― William James

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“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.”
― Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic including A Free Man's Worship

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