#incidentally part of why I started adding illustrations to methods of bioterrorism

[doedipus]

I spent most of yesterday decluttering my closet bookshelf. deeply frustrating experience, for many reasons, but that's neither here nor there.

one of the lower shelves has a bunch of the books I read in high school, and while I was reorganizing it I ended up rereading the first chapter of one flew over the cuckoo's nest, and man, I think that's still far and away my favorite book I've read. like the prose of it is so fucking wild, it's frenetic and surreal and misanthropic and nauseating in a really compelling way.

usually terms like "psychedelic" are much easier to apply to visual or audio media than print, just because like, it doesn't have to spend as much time in the thinking part of your brain, there's an immediacy there, on some level it's pure sensory input that gets processed by instinct and doesn't have to route through your language unit before it hits your imagination. stu mackensey making a weird noise with a guitar pedal and saying some quasi-nonsense, or SHAFT using mixed media and nonliteral colors while painting the screen with arararagi guts is like, easy mode. your brain wants it. but ken kesey managing to elicit those kinds of feelings purely through written word the way he did is kind of fucking incredible.

I hope someday I can do that.