The Illustrious House of Ramires , by Eça de Queirós. A novel about an ineffectual nobleman writing an historical novel about his heroic ancestors. Queirós has been called the Portuguese Flaubert. Large Fees and How to Get Them : a book for the private use of physicians , by Albert V. Harmon, M.D. If you practice early 20th medicine and want large fees, this book is essential reading. If you don’t, there are still lessons in its amusing and unsentimental discussion of various topics, like in the chapter “The Bugbear of Ethics”, where Harmon advises “ethics in its place is a good thing...But there is such a thing as overdoing the ethical proposition”. Histrionics: Three Plays and Over All the Mountain Tops , by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard once said “I despise actors, indeed I hate them, for they ally themselves at the least sign of danger with the audience and betray the author and completely identify with stupidity and feeble-mindedness. Actors are the destroyers and extermin
No "27" news would be complete without a mention of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin..OK, it's not new news, exactly.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe you should discuss this as a guest on the George Noory/Art Bell show.
ReplyDeleteGood idea. I'm reminded of the guy who woke up one day and heard a voice in his head saying:
ReplyDelete"Quit your job, get all your money from the bak and go to Vegas. Quit your job, get all your money from the bak and go to Vegas. Quit your job, get all your money from the bak and go to Vegas. Quit your job, get all your money from the bak and go to Vegas."
He ignores the voice but it won't go away, so finally he quits his job, withdraws all his money from the bank and flies to Vegas.
When he gets off the plane the voice says "Go to Caesar's Palace. Go to Caesar's Palace. Go to Caesar's Palace." So he goes to Caesar's Palace.
The voice says "Put all your money on red 27. Put all your money on red 27." So he puts all his money on red 27. The wheel spins...and comes up black 13. The voice says "Fuck."
Joplin and Hendrix both died at age 27.
ReplyDeleteI remember that '23' used to be the big freaky number. It was in like Robert Anton Wilson books. That was a few decades ago. Clearly we are making progress.
23 is freaky. 27, on the other hand, is a number the whole family can enjoy reading about in the news.
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