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Just 10 minutes from anywhere on the North Shore
(Take the Lynn Valley exit ofi the Upper Levels Hwy.)

A Little Blue Flower is Red

§ To the eye of Freud, flowers
are nothing but the reproduc-
tive organs of plants. (Did any
poet not know this?) What we
see through Freucfs eyes is the
domain of Animal and
Vegetation; the endless, pain-
y ful food-chain existing for only
one purpose, namely
‘Reproduction’ — the terrible
side of Nature. Of course, we
B do not deny that Man is also
an animal. It is Man’s hard
quest to find how to take off
his Animal skin, and how to
| be triumphant over his
Animal nature. Since then,
# through his ‘twelve labours’
f Man has achieved the Soul.
§ Now he is different from
Animal. Yes, an enlightened
animal is no longer an animal!
B This is Man! This Man is
| dreaming, and reasoning his

universe. From the dreaming,

forms of Art are created; from
_ the reasoning, Philosophy,

Science, etc., are evalved. The

same Violet Freud’ sees, and

the one Bachelard sees, is the.

very same flower as. the
@ reproductive organ, but
5 Bachelard’s flower is as far dif-
§ ferent from Freud's, as his ‘lit-
a tle blue flower is red!” (“The
g. Psychoanalysis of Fire” p.41.

BP. $7.50) Unlike Freud, when
Bachelard sees the flower, he
starts to dream, and through
this dream, he enters into the
inner side of the flower and

‘goes down (please note “The

Twelve Dancing Princesses’)
into the depths of the Earth
(or his unconscious), and tries
to find what makes the flower
blue. It is the red Fire(!}, coil-
ed ir the centre of the Earth,
that makes the flower blue.
Therefore, the color of the
blue flower is red. This kind
of World that surrounds us, is

-never too bad to pass once.

Rather, it is the place we bet-
ter come with a Human-
disquise, to see many times
until our Karmic gravity is
completely loosened. To ap-
preciate -and enjoy all these
given treasures — (like R.M.
Rilke said in his “Notebooks
of Malte.” $8.75) one better
be like a honey bee, gather the
honey and meaning diligent-
ly. And preserve them secret-
ly in the deep place in ones
mind. But that is not enough,
one must forget them all.
Then, some unexpected day,
from the forgotten honey and
meaning which have been
fermented through the forget-

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fulness, a bubble of poetry
floats on the surface of the
mind. (This, so-called Poetry
is not necessarily purely
poetry like Rilke sang. But
with what word may we call
it?) This bubble, like plankton
to small fish, is the food for
ones Soul. With this food, the
Soul (larva, puppa) will turn
into Spirit (winged).

None would deny that
Adam was luckier (or,
possibly, unluckier) than us.
When he saw the World, not
a single thing was named. So
he took the great pleasure (or,
possibly, labour) of naming
them. Since then, we do not
have to labour to name things,
but learn the names that have
already been named. If we do
not know a Violet is a Violet,
how do we know a Violet is
a Violet? Here arises the pro-
blem of Language. So children
learn words (names),
vocabularies, grammatical
structures, and even composi-
tions. This way, they can read,
and write, and even think. To
the Semiotics, there does not
exist anything that is not a
‘Textbook’ to read and inter-
pret in this universe. To them,
this universe. itself is a Text-
book (that we too agree). But
as everybody knows well, to
read a certain kind of book

needs a lot of patience, or
even an overdose of Aspirin,
ie, our contemporary World,
or a lonely man’s behaviour,
etc. ... But, if we turn our page
to (especially in this right
season) the Wilderness that
surrounds us, where sudden-
ly are heavenly songs and
fragrances and breezes from?
However, to read these ex-
tremely beautiful pages, one
has to teach oneself with a
good textbook (of which, one
of them is shown), the words,
vocabularies, and the grarn-
matic structure of Nature.
Then, one would appreciate
and enjoy the Nature
(Wilderness) more. (After all,
it is the season out there. So
many millions of Nature's
charming warm eyes are
waiting for us to meet our
eyes.)

We believe that this Book
(title shown) is the kind of
book that we look, touch,
smell, and feel like the wild
flower itself when we read.
And also, we believe that after
we teach ourselves through

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“MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE”
The Life and Lore of Western Wildflowers
By d. Ward-Harris Oxford Univ. Press
Original Publisher's Price was $35.00
SPECIAL FOR LYNN VALLEY

DAYS PRICE IS $5.95
(limited quantities)

May 27 (Wed.)-
May 30 (Sat.)

this book, if we would go out
to the Wilderness, the same
Wildemess had been there all
this time, we would find that
somehow, it has been chang-
ed. We are the Adam who is
waking up from his slumber,
and is starting to look his
World anew. Glorious it is!

Reader’s Retreat Bookstore
Lynn VaLiey Centre

1199 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver 985-7616

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