Monday, August 8, 2011

EX LIBRIS AD MYSTERIA: Weird Books and Beyond

From: Codex Seraphinianus















The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion
by Henry Darger

"Henry Darger was a typical urban hermit: he worked as a janitor, he lived in a small apartment in Chicago for close to 40 years, never married, and kept to himself. After he died, however, in 1973, his former landlords discovered that Darger was a typical hermit with an atypical habit: he had been writing and illustrating a novel for years, and the tome was more than 15,000 pages long by the time he died. [...]


The Red Book
by Carl Jung

"[...] by using a technique of Jung’s own development that he called 'active imagination,' [...] he was visited by a male and female figure, whom he later identified as the prophet Elijah and Salome, who guided him through the process of delving into a collective unconscious.
Jung’s heirs kept the Red Book from being accessed for nearly eighty years, until 2001. It was finally published in 2009." — Business Pundit
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