the statement is pointless, the finger is speechless

One of my favorite books is R.D. Laing’s Knots. Laing was an iconoclastic psychiatrist that pioneered controversial treatments for schizophrenia in the 1960’s. Knots is only 90 pages and contains small “poems” that address the seemingly inescapable binds or knots that are the result of life’s duality. Reading Laing always reminds me of the tragic absurdity of life…

An excerpt:
They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

One of my favorite Laing quotes:
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”

Buy: Knots