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Rene Daumal

The Mountain was his language Part 1.

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Jun 21, 2025
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Daumal, days before he died.

In the waning years of World War II, Rene Daumal, post Surrealist upstart, poet-mountaineer, suffered consumption of the lungs. No longer able to climb, he created a mountain of his own. An allegorical mountain, where ascent and descent are at once material and immaterial. In the realm of the tolling heart the pealing is also…

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