Ade Bailey

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Ade is Currently Reading

Ade Bailey is currently reading

A Doctor's Line: Poetry and Prescriptions in Health and Healing

by Kenneth C. Calman

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Ade Bailey said: " Sir Kenneth Calman has held many distinguished positions including Chief Medical Officer posts in Scotland and England. He has much experience practising and teaching medicine.

This book is a delightful survey of Scottish literature in its relationshi ...more "

Nov 19, 2014 06:38AM · see review

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Etc Etc Amen

by Howard Male (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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Ade Bailey said: " OK. Howard Male (the author) contacted me on goodreads and asked me to read this book. I understand he's messaged others. These aren't generic messages; he's been through my reading lists and refers to them as preparing me for this book of his.

This w OK. Howard Male (the author) contacted me on goodreads and asked me to read this book. I understand he's messaged others. These aren't generic messages; he's been through my reading lists and refers to them as preparing me for this book of his.

This wonderful, hilarious, surreal romp. Not quite finished but the highest compliment I can give it is it's precisely the sort of book some maladjusted inner readerly miser wants to keep for itself. It's satirical and contemporary, its targets are brilliantly intertwined music industries, architecture, big corporations, the corrupt insanity of new age cults (though 'new age' is too thin here: the age of the Knowing Unknowing Universe is the 'now age').

The KUU stems from the writings of faded crazy music star Zachary B, disintegrating before our eyes as his drug-fuelled soul wilts under the realisation that the public see him more as Gary Glitter than Bowie. The theses he left, or hypotheses to be unprecise in a theory of everything where 'maybe' is the basis of an existential edifice based totally uncertainty. What follows from the original sacred text is its mediation and appropriation etc. etc.

Alarmingly, I have found myself taking seriously some of the hypotheses of the KUU. It has made me think. Or unthink.

My guess is that someone will accidentally read this review, later in the day meet a cat called Zachary, and then read in the London Review of Books a long essay considering the ethics of re-releasing Gary Glitter's greatest hits. This 'cosmic nudge' will set in motion events without a cause.

I hope Male has a good legal team. There is a slimy businessman who has 'V' as his trademark. Started in music, went on to planes, trains and whatever. Had a building built to image the V trademark. A common foundation and two blocks leaning away from each other, it came quickly to be known as the 'Fuck You Building'. All a mere detail, a throwaway conceit in this cross-genre, cross-dressing cock and bull tale that is scalpel-sharp-modern and at the same time permeated with the spirit of Cervantes and Sterne. It will seriously mess with your head. Seriously. ...more "

Feb 15, 2014 05:04AM · see review

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The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat

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Feb 15, 2014 04:20AM

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Ade鈥檚 Quotes

“I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.

I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.

I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: inspirational, love, poetry

1320 likes

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

36825 likes

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
― Gautama Buddha

tags: inspirational

1769 likes

“I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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