Entry #69

In the book Liz talks about how she has to chant for hours on end in Ashram. She explains how she doesn't like it, she says "Chant connotes a certain drone like, scary monotony," P. 183 I happen to agree and disagree at the same time. I mean it can be pretty scary, when I think of chanting I think of a cult in robes surrounding a body on a pedestal. It sort of seems sacrilegious, I don't know it can be pretty intimidating. I mean the word is affiliated with a lot of bad stuff through history. I always hear of crazy cults or groups of mass murdering idiots chanting the same phrase over and over in sickening unison. Take any major regime, there always involves groups of people largely screaming the same thing over and over which is frighting monotony. But on the other hand it can be a good, nice thing as well. Like in the book, when all the Indian people join together to create a perfect song as they sing over and over again. It is always attached to many good things- I think it might just be the word its self, which some people will immediately attach to the bad things rather than the good.