Knots

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Originally published in 1970 , Knots consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Poetry, the most personal of the literary arts, is used as a mediuni for highly formal philosophical and psychologi cal descriptions which themselves delineate intensely personal experi ences. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. ISBN: 0-394-71776-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-136109 Manufactured in the United States of America Vin tage Books Edition, April 1972 The patterns delineated here have not yet been classified by a Linnaeus of human bondage.

With its short lines and repetitious spare vocabulary the book reads rather like a reading primer - or a very basic book in logic.Hardcover in original black glossy jacket (jacket has some tears to edges; cloth has some tape residue). published in hardcover in 1970, this is the First Mass Market Paperback Edition, First Printing, from Apr.

Words that come to mind to name them are: knots, tangles, fankles, impasses, disjunctions, whirligogs, binds. Be that as it may, when I ended my bitter tenure under much more experienced and cynical arbiters of law than I, I still would not recant.The large knot of which this a part climaxes in a series of varia tions on the theme of differentiation between the self and the world, “me” and “not me,” the “mine” “not mine. Number 46 is at the northern end of Shepherd Market, formerly the location of Shepherds bindery, a five minute walk from Green Park tube station (Jubilee, Victoria and Piccadilly lines) and only slightly more from Bond Street station. I say, read it, and know that either you will hate it and find it a complete waste of time OR you will be very glad to have it in your life. Knots is unlike any other book, consisting of a series of powerful, witty, unexpected dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or as brief plays, each complete in itself. Nothing else before or since so perfectly caught the efficiency and momentum and horror of circular thinking.

The book is a slim volume of verses that takes a premise and then twists it into every permutation you can think of, until your head is swimming with seemingly commonplace words that suddenly make no sense. They may have been impressed that a liberal arts dabbler and then-English Major was reading abstruse psychological books like Laing’s, I don’t know. Number 48 is on the south side of Bedford Square, a five minute walk from Totten ham Court Road or Goodge Street underground stations and a ten minute walk from Russell Square.Each poem describes a different kind of relationship, indicating the knots people will tie themselves into through preconception or misunderstanding. Sometimes you are certain that you understand what he means, but after a moment you realize that it is far far away of what you thought it is, you don't know what he means, maybe he doesn't mean anything, maybe it is for you to give a meaning to the knot, and maybe only maybe you can find a way to untie that knot if only you could find it between those perplexing, mysterious, baffling lines. This is what you get if you applied Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to relationship failures. Reading about circular thinking in others is like seeing someone slip on ice--we laugh to see someone demonstrating just how mechanical a mind or body can be.

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Its a sort of illustration to the confusions and interweaving patterns that people get lost in during their lives. In “Knots,” his most recent book, Laing continues to explore some of the themes that have been prominent in his work since 1958. So often the knots just get tighter; we pull them over the years - never considering how we are effectively ending any kind of positive communication. Ultimately, descriptions which have delighted the reader and compelled him to mental gymnastics yield that which cannot be described. Like Freud 40 years ago, Laing is read as psychi atric theoretician, political philos opher and personal guru.