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-ibn al-..Arabi, Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, in The Mystics of Islam, translated by Reynold A Nicholson

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Siddhartha listened. He was now nothing but a listener, completely concentrated on listening, completely empty, he felt, that he had now finished learning to listen. Often before, he had heard all this, these many voices in the river, today it sounded new.

Already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged together, the lamentation of yearning and the laughter of the knowledgeable one, the scream of rage and the moaning of the dying ones, everything was one, everything was intertwined and connected, entangled a thousand times.

And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life.

And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection.

"Do you hear," Vasudeva's gaze asked again.

Brightly, Vasudeva's smile was shining, floating radiantly over all the wrinkles of his old face, as the Om was floating in the air over all the voices of the river.

Mars, Jimmy Mitchell, Olivia Tremor Control, The Sunshine Fix, Circulatory System, Hanadensha, T.A.G.C., Lovage, Dictators, Germs, Fantomas, Lustmord, H.N.A.S., Randy Greif, Slayer, Motorhead, Bad Livers, Agony Column, Roky Erickson, The Didjits, T. Tex Edwards, Annette Funicello, The Seeds, Violent Onsengeisha, Cabaret Voltaire, Rhythm & Noise, The Residents, Chrome, Guru Guru, S.P.K., E.A.R., Antenna Farm, Francis Dhomont, Secret Chiefs 3, Renaldo & the Loaf, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO, Carl Stalling, The Apples in Stereo, Finntroll, Finnish folk & metal, The Gaza Strippers, The Clash, Magma, Sun Ra, The Sun City Girls, Of Montreal, Nurse With Wound, Richard Cheese, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Massti Shadhu, Shalabi Effect, Enoch Light & His Light Brigade, Cab Calloway, Popol Vuh, Barnes & Barnes, Klaatu, Iggy Pop, Suicide, New York Dolls, Subway Sect, Undertones, Boomtown Rats, Mutantes, Dogbowl, Camper Van Beethoven, The Dickies, The Bonzo Dog Band, The Pixies, Tenpole Tudor, Moondog, Prudence & Patience, Les Baxter, Little Peggy March, Julie Cruise, The Beach Boys, T Rex, The Cramps, The Sonics, Electric Prunes, Charlie Feathers, Love, The Kinks, The Who, Edmundo Ros & the Sons of the Buddha, Taj Mahal Travelers, Christoph Heeman, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Dukes of the Stratosphere (XTC), The Chocolate Watchband, Boyd Rice, Do Make Say Think, Dooms UK, Dean Martin, Perry Como, The Buzzcocks, Magazine, Ultravox, The Ames Brothers, The Holy Modal Rounders, Jug Bands, Dean Elliott (did the Dr. Seuss cartoon music), Spiritualized, Love and Rockets, Mr. Bungle, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Mad Professor, U-Roy, Calamalka Shredders, Eek-A-Mouse, Scientist, Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, Niney the Observer, Sly & Robbie, This Mortal Coil, Diamanda Galas, Dead Can Dance, Coil, Amon Duul 2, The Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, Harry Partsch, No Doubt, Fats Waller, Rolling Stones (w/ Brian Jones!), The Judy's, The Stooges, Gong, Cocteau Twins, Boss Hogg, Danielle Dax, Eagles of Death Metal, Hawkwind, Elf Power, Elephant 6 Bands, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lupine Howl, Chris & Cosey and so much more...

"...unfortunately barbarians do seem to serve a purpose in history, for when we have them as enemies at our gates we no longer have to judge ourselves. For a brief moment, anyway, our innate savagery is safely out there beyond the city walls and we can rejoice in in our self-righteousness and be smug in our petty civic virtues"

-Edward Whittemore

I highly recommend Edward Whittemore's astounding Jerusalem Quartet. The writing is breathtakingly beautiful and the characters resonate long after you finish the books. From Rabelasian humor to profound tragedy to heart-wrenching meditations on the human spirit, the Jerusalem Quartet has it all. These are simply the best books I have read in years!

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Anything by Phillip K. Dick, James Ellroy, Jonathon Carroll, Edward Whittemore, Thomas Pynchon, Charles Willeford, Hakim Bey, Umberto Eco, Aldous Huxley, Jilaladin Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Robert Anton Wilson, Alfred Jarry, Dan Simmons, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Ligotti, Mark Leyner, Frank Herbert, Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Edgar Rice Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Kenneth Grant, Austin Osman Spare, Dan Simmons, Flannery O'Conner, Harry Crews, Thomas Harris, Henry Corbin.

Also Finishing Touches by Thomas Tessier, A Bad Child's Book of Verse by Hilaire Belloc, House of Leaves; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Charlotte: Light & Dark, Time Enough for Love & Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, American Tabloid by James Ellroy, Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue- the Man Who Made Comedy Dangerous by Dennis Perrin, Pranks! by RE:Search Press, The Family by Ed Sanders. Comic Books/ Graphic Novels: The Invisibles, Promethea, The Incal, The Silver Surfer, Frank. Many, many more...