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Sun Mar 12 12:13:23 EDT 2017
Slept from eleven to six-thirty.
High of thirty today. Mostly sunny.
Watched Under the Shadow on Netflix. Good. Another credible Iranian horror films.
Apparently both this and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night are both first films for their directors.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-complicated-friendship-of-h-p-lovecraft-and-robert-barlow-one-of-his-biggest-fans
> On January 1, 1951, he locked himself in his bedroom and took twenty-six Seconal tablets. He left a note on his door that read, “Do not disturb me, I wish to sleep for a long time.” It was written in Mayan.
> In the spring of 1950, Burroughs took a class on Mayan codices with Professor Barlow.
> Mayan imagery shows up again and again in Burroughs’s novels: in “The Soft Machine,” where the narrator flaunts his “knowledge of Maya archaeology and the secret meaning of the centipede motif”; in the form of Ah Pook the Mayan death god, in “Ah Pook Is Here”; as the Centipede God in “Naked Lunch.” Burroughs’s nightmarish vision of a world of death-haunted “control addicts” is, among other things, a transfiguration of what he knew about the Mayan theocracy—and he learned at least some of what he knew from Barlow. “Ever dig the Mayan codices?” one of the characters in “Naked Lunch” asks. “I figure it like this: the priests—about one percent of population—made with one-way telepathic broadcasts instructing the workers what to feel and when.” The telepathic priests weren’t Barlow’s idea, as far as we know. But given Barlow’s history with weird fiction, they could have been.
Twenty minute walk. Pretty out, but cold.
Big, orange moon tonight.
Breakfast: carrots
Lunch: pita, cheddar cheese, coffee
Dinner: pizza, chips
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