This book contains ninety-nine literary treatises, written at different times according to the author’s intellectual state during three years. The time of writing each of them was indicated according to its date, which were divided into four sections and classified into the seasons of the year, “summer, fall, winter, and spring.” ", according to what she carries in her heart regarding the appearance and meaning of the chapter.
Minds outside the time line
“It is about how to invest and stimulate ideas to create balance and awareness in life, and thus this will contribute directly to improving the quality of a person’s understanding of the situations and events he is experiencing. The mind will think outside the scope of the situations and its perceptions and dimensions will expand and it will not be confined to the situation it is in now, but rather it will have a long-term vision.” .
This book contains six parts in which I mentioned various dimensions of ideas, such as the meaning of the idea, the mind, and other words and concepts that we hear but perhaps do not delve deeply into their meanings. I also talked about the details of the most important common misconceptions that require us to change the idea just in order to reduce its effects. I devoted a part to ideas, their motivations and effects, and another part in which I talked about some of my personal experiences in order to spread the benefit, and the last part is a confrontation with the reader by asking an important set of questions in order for him to evaluate himself and know where he stands in the group of ideas that have been explained in this book. And also how he can improve the quality of his current ideas
Rabbits emerge from jacket sleeves, a car fixes a shed instead of a pole, and medical cotton speaks and makes sounds; These are some of the daily observations mixed with audio-visual hallucinations, narrated by a young drug addict, through a group of separate, connected short stories that describe the image of a world in which wakefulness and sleep are mixed, and reality and imagination.
In these stories, everything moves slowly, and the world is seen through a blur; As for death, it seems like a joke, even the feelings become numb; So that one laughs when one should cry.
Without lacking a sense of humor and bitter banter, Dennis Johnson presents in this collection an honest testimony about the lives of young addicts in the United States of America, and despite all the laughter and smiles generated by the book’s funny characters with their jokes and behavior, perhaps the reader will wonder at the end: Why does he feel this way? All sadness? It is a book written in the mouth of addicts, not about them, and describes their alienation and their connection with the world that is gradually fading.
