📓 journal/2024-01-14.md by @flancian ☆

[[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.]]
    - [[Yorkshire Slavery]] as well.
Read about [[Andreas Gursky]], [[Kiki de Montparnasse]].