I showed him to the shelf where we kept Crowley and other such nonsense, and returned to the counter frowning thoughtfully.
Ruthanna Emrys, The Litany of Earth [Amazon, Publisher]
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A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited [Amazon, Publisher]
The whole thing is just about keeping the police busy and visible. Elections are coming next year, Kari thinks. Right-wing voters eat up this authoritarian nonsense.
Bogi Takács and Charlie Jane Anders, The Trans Space Octopus Congregation
95% of our writing process is just trying to make each other laugh, but we genuinely don’t expect anyone else to be amused by our nonsense.
Sean Bonner and Allen Morgenstern, The New Oklahoma
The Magic Bishop
The Magic Bishop – Hugo Ball is an essay written by Anne Crossey, an artist and student of esotericism working in Cork, IE, which may be of intererest.
“Dada was an attempt to return ‘through the innermost alchemy of the word’ to a more magical, playful reality through overturning of all the conventions associated with civilized adult society—drawing on African, Nordic and Sanskrit traditions, the Cabaret Voltaire was a riot of nonsense, play, colour, and noise—a giant, noisy incantation against all the ills of the world.
Dada was ‘the heart of words’.
It was a fight. It was a magical battle.” [via]
Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.
“The American Civil War would have resulted in the utter ruin of the whole country had it not been that Grant, in the moment of victory, forgot all about Simon Legree, dismissed the whole howling of the wolves of the press as nonsense, and observed succinctly: Let us have peace.” [via]
The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“The value of all this nonsense is somewhat discounted by the fact that I am back in England after wandering over most of the world, and go my way without interference.
No charge of any sort has ever been preferred against me.” [via]
“Every nursery rime contains profound magical secrets which are open to every one who has made a study of the correspondences of the Holy Qabalah. To puzzle out an imaginary meaning for this ‘nonsense’ sets one thinking of the Mysteries; one enters into deep contemplation of holy things and God Himself leads the soul to a real illumination.” — Aleister Crowley in Part II – Magick from Book Four
A recent article about research shows that trying to make sense of nonsense primes the brain to better find patterns in general at “How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect” by Benedict Carey.