{"id":272,"date":"2018-09-03T23:40:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T21:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2018-09-03T23:40:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T21:40:48","slug":"hearing-trumpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/09\/03\/hearing-trumpet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucid dreams of an eccentric person or &#8216;The Hearing Trumpet&#8217; by Leonora Carrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genre: surrealism. Stars from Goodreads: 4.09. Stars from me: 3.5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ve read <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Q1HNRK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Hearing Trumpet<\/em><\/a>, which was presented earlier on the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/21\/paper-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by my cat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The book is described as an \u201coccult twin of <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>\u201d but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s accurate. If it can be compared to any book at all then it\u2019s probably a very drunk version of <em>Narnia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The author, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonora_Carrington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leonora Carrington<\/a>, was an eccentric person. She would cover her feet with mustard while sitting in a restaurant and would serve her guests breakfast made of their own hair that she had cut off while they were sleeping. Thus, I\u2019m not sure if Leonora needed the help of any substances to create this book or it came to her naturally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The book feels like a lucid dream controlled by a fantasy loving person. The story starts with an old lady and cats but quickly progresses to a fairytale touched up by an apocalyptic approach. I\u2019m not even sure if Leonora Carrington wanted to write the book or the book just happened accidentally while Leonora was having fun imagining her dream world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The Hearing Trumpet<\/em> has a hilarious main character and is very quotable. Here are some of the quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><em>\u201cThe fact that I have no teeth and never could wear dentures does not in any way discomfort me. I don\u2019t have to bite anybody and there are all sorts of soft edible foods easy to procure and digestible to the stomach. [\u2026] I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><em>\u201cIf I remember correctly writers usually find some excuse for their books, although why one should excuse oneself for having such a quiet and peaceful occupation I really don\u2019t know. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><em>\u201cIt is impossible to understand how millions and millions of people all obey a sickly collection of gentlemen that call themselves \u2018Government&#8217;. [\u2026] It is a form of planetary hypnosis, and very unhealthy\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><em>\u201cI\u2019m sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for themselves, instead of always being told what to do.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">I still can&#8217;t suggest this book to anybody because I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s possible to enjoy the book without hitting a moment of occult overdose at some point. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-274\" src=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_20180903_190115_hdr-01.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_20180903_190115_HDR-01.jpeg\" width=\"2100\" height=\"2653\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book starts with an old lady and her cats but quickly progresses to a fairytale touched up by an apocalyptic approach. For anybody reading this book there&#8217;s a risk of hitting an occult overdose at some point. <a href=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/09\/03\/hearing-trumpet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lucid dreams of an eccentric person or &#8216;The Hearing Trumpet&#8217; by Leonora Carrington<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[123,125,252,350,424,500,555,591],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}