I’m delighted to do so, and Lukas Lion is a truth warrior extraordinaire! I included his “1984” and “1984: Part 2” in these previous articles:
• “Dispatches from the New Normal Front: The Ministry of Truth’s War on ‘Misinformation’” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-the-new-normal-front)
• “Letter to the New York S…
Thank you for the fantabulous recommendations! Looks like some new candidates for my Resistance playlist.
Your description of Williams’s symphonies gave me chills—I had no idea about the historical context of those!
I did read “The Plague” in 2019, I think (rather presciently, I was on a pandemic kick and probably listened to a dozen or so books on pandemics, infectious diseases, parasites, and related topics during 1 BC), but not in French! I don’t think my college French would stand up to a book of that length, but it did come in handy when I was deciphering Jacques Attali’s diabolical prognostications for “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier).
Camus is a great companion to have a long on this journey. “The Myth of Sisyphus” applies well. Take whatever Shakespeare we can get - “The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars.” And poet Gary Snyder “Stay together, learn the flowers, go light.” Godspeed, may the winds be at your back.
Those are great recommendations! You inspired me to add Camus’s “Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937–1958” as I’m hoping it will contain his brilliant “Homage to an Exile” speech from “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death,” which I quoted in this article:
I’m delighted to do so, and Lukas Lion is a truth warrior extraordinaire! I included his “1984” and “1984: Part 2” in these previous articles:
• “Dispatches from the New Normal Front: The Ministry of Truth’s War on ‘Misinformation’” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-the-new-normal-front)
• “Letter to the New York State Department of Health” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-new-york-state-department)
Thank you for the fantabulous recommendations! Looks like some new candidates for my Resistance playlist.
Your description of Williams’s symphonies gave me chills—I had no idea about the historical context of those!
I did read “The Plague” in 2019, I think (rather presciently, I was on a pandemic kick and probably listened to a dozen or so books on pandemics, infectious diseases, parasites, and related topics during 1 BC), but not in French! I don’t think my college French would stand up to a book of that length, but it did come in handy when I was deciphering Jacques Attali’s diabolical prognostications for “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier).
Camus is a great companion to have a long on this journey. “The Myth of Sisyphus” applies well. Take whatever Shakespeare we can get - “The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars.” And poet Gary Snyder “Stay together, learn the flowers, go light.” Godspeed, may the winds be at your back.
Those are great recommendations! You inspired me to add Camus’s “Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937–1958” as I’m hoping it will contain his brilliant “Homage to an Exile” speech from “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death,” which I quoted in this article:
• “Letter to the UK Government” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-uk-government)