Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal. 1972 City Lights, fourth paperback printing, 106 pages. Daumal was a French poet, author, and philosopher connected to the surrealist movement. According to City Lights: "Poet, philosopher, and self-taught Sanskrit scholar René Daumal (1908–1944) devoted himself to a lifelong attempt to think through death by means of what he called “experimental metaphysics”: an attempt to address metaphysical questions through scientific methodology." Mount Analogue is an allegorical novel.

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"My story begins with some unfamiliar handwriting on an envelope."