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seahorsemojinow 's review for:
Something That May Shock and Discredit You
by Daniel M. Lavery
I was listening to this rather than reading and thought that would draw it out longer than I would spend reading it otherwise. But I sped through it just as quick! One particular moment that sticks out to me takes place in my bathtub, where I am sitting down in the shower because my legs hurt but I need to scrub my face. I have the book playing on the speaker, and he is explaining a story of two believers crossing a river together, worried about their feet teaching the bottom. He is in the river, feeling the current flow by. I am sitting among a mass of tiny rivers, flowing past my toes to the drain. I think of DBT, and one of the only meditative practices I ever took a shine to - thinking of myself sitting in the middle of a river, and letting thoughts flow past. Noticing them as they rise, and watching them as they go.
Listening to Daniel Lavery was definitely a meditative experience. A lot of it was recursive, presenting a scenario or narrative and then returning to it from many different angles in order to experience it fully while also laying the narrative bare so that all it's questions can also be seen. I appreciated this particularly in the case of many references to media that I had no context for, especially the Bible.
There were certain things that he sometimes speaks about as if they are universal. Not literally - he is an extremely self conscious writer, so he would never make a statement like that without qualifications, but that does make the instances where he does seem to assume that most people's experiences fall in line feel all the more surprising. Two main examples were neck acne and a scene in a movie whose name I now can't remember. Re: the scene, I remember him saying, "Even if you haven't seen the movie, you've seen this scene." But the amount of movies I've never heard of - let alone seen - is without limit!
To be clear, the entirety of this book felt squirmingly personal and seemingly intended to drag me specifically! But instead of making it impossible to read, it instead helped me delight in myself. I loved it extremely!
Listening to Daniel Lavery was definitely a meditative experience. A lot of it was recursive, presenting a scenario or narrative and then returning to it from many different angles in order to experience it fully while also laying the narrative bare so that all it's questions can also be seen. I appreciated this particularly in the case of many references to media that I had no context for, especially the Bible.
There were certain things that he sometimes speaks about as if they are universal. Not literally - he is an extremely self conscious writer, so he would never make a statement like that without qualifications, but that does make the instances where he does seem to assume that most people's experiences fall in line feel all the more surprising. Two main examples were neck acne and a scene in a movie whose name I now can't remember. Re: the scene, I remember him saying, "Even if you haven't seen the movie, you've seen this scene." But the amount of movies I've never heard of - let alone seen - is without limit!
To be clear, the entirety of this book felt squirmingly personal and seemingly intended to drag me specifically! But instead of making it impossible to read, it instead helped me delight in myself. I loved it extremely!