That thing nobody understands about you. That book that explains it. Match me up.
All volumes of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers. My brain is mostly just useless trivia.
Maybe these don’t explain me, but they hit hard at forming my views of my fellow apes:
American politics
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Which is also explained, among a shitload of other behavior, in
So MUCH of what we see around us is explained in those two articles. I’ve had responses that neither is a complete view, not all behavior, bla, bla, bla. Yeah, I know. But if you want to understand humans, especially why so many seem bugfuck evil, there’s a lot of bang for the buck in there. (Be patient with the Monkeysphere article, old and the formatting is hosed, but I trust you’ll get it.)
The Critique of Pure Reason.
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listen to all jethro tull till you can recognize every song and figure out the two bad albums.
Incy wincy spider
It’s the Myth of Sisyphus for the under-fives.
One must imagine incy, not wincy
Gustave Doré- Illustrations for the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Read the Divine Comedy at like 12, and loved it. What I liked the most were the illustrations, they made a profound impact in me; and are probably the first artistic work I came to by myself that truly shaped me as a person.
https://archive.org/details/the-dore-illustrations-for-dantes-divine-comedy-pdfdrive
These are beautiful. They’re what I want to draw when I grow up.
Same, still a work in progress
Codex Seraphinianus.
Some pages may take two-three reads before understanding fully.
- The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
- Getting to Where You Are, by Steven Harrison
- Journey Without Goal, by Chögyam Trungpa
Anything by Douglas Adams, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, music history textbooks, Samurai Jack slash fiction, public restroom graffiti, HVAC technical manuals, and the comment sections on porn sites.
Martin Buber: I and Thou
It’s a masterpiece of philosophy, and honestly accounts for maybe 3/4ths of my worldview.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series and the John Dies at the End series
both 10/10s mixing gut wrenching existentialism and laugh out loud comedy
tbh I probably wouldn’t say I’m into comedy writing in general but those two and Terry Pratchett are the only writers to ever make me bust out laughing in response to words on a page
I’ve lost count of the number of times and number of formats in which i’ve consumed The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and i’ve loved it every time.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)
