Jim Morrison’s notebook to be auctioned in Los Angeles

A leather-bound notebook belonging to Jim Morrison is to be auctioned off next month in Los Angeles. The musician’s handwritten entries in the book reveal, according to The Times, his confused and tortured thoughts, likely to have been influenced by heavy drug use.

The notes written by The Doors’s lead singer, who died in France aged 27, show a series of disjointed thoughts ranging from poetry to personal philosophy. They are expected to fetch up to $300,000 (£186,000).

The opening page reads: “Will we spoil the best secrets of life or will we help to free a new kind of man?”

Another passage appears less lucid: “Womb vision. Internal vision. Cycloptic middle eye.”

The last page of notes addresses a philosophy of art: “Art is a compromise, a vast midland, it attempts to rejoin subject and obj. by revealing w/ pure eye, but can suspend the separation of perceived and perceives. Beauty is therefore an absolute, rooted in disinterested perception – objects devoid of all purpose and meaning.”

im Morrison died in 1971 of a suspected drug overdose, but his cause of death remains disputed. The notebook was written after he moved in with his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, and after Morrison’s death it was left to The Doors’s manager, Bill Siddons. Siddons gave it to Graham Nash in 1984, and it is Nash who has now decided to sell it.

Joe Maddalena, a spokesman for Profiles in History, which is organising the book’s auction, called the writings “bizarre, and without having him here to explain them it’s hard to know what any of them mean, but in terms of rock’n’roll memorabilia, this is up there with the best.

“It is a window into the mind of Jim Morrison – the closest we will ever come to knowing what was going on in his head before he died.”

The notebook will be auctioned on December 18.

Source: The Telegraph