Intriguing, delightful, frustrating and difficult (to non-logicians, at least) in equal measure. Actually, maybe the scales tip on the frustrating and difficult side. But I can’t help admiring RD Laing for writing such a strange little book.

What a trip! My brain is sore from doing so much gymnastics

Intriguing concept. I am not sure it works as poetry, but it was for sure surprising.

I think my brain is a knot now.

One of the strangest and most laborious reads of my life, and for disappointingly little reward. While I understand that this book was groundbreakingly important, it now just seemes needlessly obtuse in its attempts to be profound. I took precious little away from nearly two years (!!?) of trudging through just 90 pages of the literary equivalent of neck-deep mud. Over 40 years after its publication, I think it a fair observation that the value of 'Knots' might be in what it has inspired, not in what it is.