This project involves asking the artists who created the music selected by ammel to select books.
For the eighth installment, we feature Laurine Frost, who just released the third title in the LENA series, “MAIDEN”, last month.On his album “LENA”, he referenced “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” by the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the book he selected this time was the following title.
"The Doors of Perceptions" by Aldous Huxley
“I’m mostly inspired by Hungarian (Sándor Márai, Gyula Krúdy) and Russian literature (Gogol, Dostoyevsky), but there is one book—a kind of classic—that had a huge impact on me when I read it as a kid, about 20 years ago. That book was ‘The Doors of Perception’ by Aldous Huxley."
"I think this book is also relatively accessible in your market. Many people get hooked on the fact that Huxley wrote it under the influence of mescaline, but the average reader’s approach is often very narrow and misses the point. (I’m against using any psychoactive subtances, and haven’t drunk alcohol for more than 22 years.)"
" The book is commonly treated as a ‘drug memoir,’ but that’s completely wrong. It’s about seeing and feeling the things around us from a very different, unusual points of few. It shows that there is so much things we don’t know about our brain, about ourselves."
‘The Doors of Perception’ is a fascinating journey into the human mind, written by a genius. So yes, I would definitely recommend this book.”
-Thank you again for recommending "The Doors of Perception."
As I work as a pharmacist, I am particularly interested in the concept of "drug memory," and taking into account the perspective I have received this time, I would like to read the book carefully as part of my exploration of humanity.
If you see a book in a store wrapped in glassine paper, faintly showing the shadows of the letters,
Please feel free to pick up a copy and ask who selected the books.
The music was created by people who cherished the book and whose lives were influenced by it.
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