Oct. 5 | The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

A conversing maelstrom of telepathic Amazonian writers
An immolation of singing mole-skinned musicians

"Man has closed himself up,
till he see all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern."
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Snow leopard sound: flicker-like cry of a woodpecker
At home: Margaret Atwood singing a God's Gardeners' hymn about moles
Snow leopard touch: a maelstrom of wind/water; pangs of loss
At home: a soft, sleek book cover, the heft of bound paper
Snow leopard word of the day: telepathy
Snow leopard quote of the day: "This cloud forest — who knows? — may hide a yeti?"; "...I lost my sense of self, the heartbeat I heard was the heart of the world..."
Snow leopard notable: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; yaje or ayahuasca, a hallucinogen of morbid effect used by shamans of the Amazon, Peruvian jungle, to induce supernatural states
Snow leopard extra: "...in unison with the primordial nature of creation...ecstasy is identity with all existence...";

"...the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came."

At home: literary text as music score; self-immolating man
Snow leopard gratitude: Hamsun, Borges, Thoreau, Hesse, Kierkegaard, Jung
At home: Town Hall Seattle, the building, the people, the programming, the community coming together to talk about books

Panthera progress: slow, but inspired, determined, even hopeful

What is this? Blogging The Snow Leopard project.

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