garden/journal/2024-01-14.md

• Suffering came and went on 2024-01-13
• This year I'd like to explore the Jhanas more.
  • I picked up Leigh Brasington's Right Concentration again.
• I upgraded ubuntu and that somehow broke poetry.
  • -> install poetry fixed it
• open letters:
  • I'm reading Carta Abierta a Buenos Aires Violento by Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer.
    • On its back cover there's a list of other open letters that publishing house Emecé put out in the 70s, by:
      • André Maurois
      • Salvador Dalí
      • André Soubiran
      • Jean Cau
      • Robert Escarpit
      • Françoise Parturer
      • Jen François Revel
      • Gilbert Cesbron
      • Alfred Fabre-Luce
      • Silvina Bullrich
      • Ulyses Petit de Murat
      • Jean Fourastié
    • I notice that besides Gudiño Kieffer, Dalí and Bullrish they all seem/sound French. I wonder if there was a significant Open Letter movement in France for some reason? I will research it.
      • Wikipedia says that J'accuse by Zola is one of the most prominent ones -- that might have left its mark particularly in French culture, eliciting more instances of this form.
      • Letter from Birmingham Jail by MLK I didn't know about, and it sounds /interesting..md
      • Yorkshire Slavery as well.
• Read about Andreas Gursky, Kiki de Montparnasse.