Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

[<tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G.Ballard

one of my favourite 'dipping' RAM books...

Its more kind of schizophrenic than ambient, but is quite nonlinear in a
stream of conciousness way
and could be read in any order.... the marginalia are fantastic and i often
read through them at random...

Also see the green box by duchamp, a similarly great compendium of thoughts
and psycho-structures

Tom

www.nullpointer.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "pelagius pelagius" <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

> That's an interesting point about reading without bookmarks.  How about
> spiritual books then like the Bible, I Ching, etc.  People read them in a
> non-linear fashion and come to think of it, they can sometimes have a
> physical presence in a room and create a sort of "ambience' just lying
> there.
>
>
> >From: tattermalion <tattermalion@xxxxxxxxx>
> >also, these are books i read without bookmarks and without 'active'
> >reading. i'll pick up the topology of the phantom city and just read a
bit.
> >it's a different kind of reading for me, separate from the plow through
the
> >book and put it on the shelf style i normally employ.
>
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