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Mount Analogue Notes Found Among the Author’s Papers

tania — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:58:06 +0000

MOUNT ANALOGUE NOTES FOUND AMONG THE AUTHOR’S PAPERS

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again… So why bother in the first place? Just this: what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above… One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

Rene Daumal – Images

tania — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:53:53 +0000

Rene Daumal – Bio

tania — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:27:29 +0000

Rene Daumal was born in 1908 in France and was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet. He is known for his novels “A Night of Serious Drinking” and Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing”. Daumal was self-taught in the Sanskrit language and translated some of the Tripitaka Buddhist canon into the French language, as well as translating the literature of the Japanese Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki into French. He was married to Vera Milanova, the former wife of the poet Hendrik Kramer. He died suddenly and prematurely from tuberculosis in 1944 in Paris.

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