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It was a rather eccentric book written by August Engelhardt in 1898, where he outlined his beliefs about life reform, included poems about coconuts, and promoted the idea that coconuts were the sole source of health and life.
So in 1898 he wrote a book called A Carefree Future, Colon, The New Gospel, Semi-Colon. That's rare. Glimpse into the depth and distance for the selection of mankind, Comma, Comma for the reflection o...
— Episode: Short Stuff: The Coconut Cult
Episode: Short Stuff: The Coconut Cult
It was a rather eccentric book written by August Engelhardt in 1898, where he outlined his beliefs about life reform, included poems about coconuts, and promoted the idea that coconuts were the sole source of health and life.
So in 1898 he wrote a book called A Carefree Future, Colon, The New Gospel, Semi-Colon. That's rare. Glimpse into the depth and distance for the selection of mankind, Comma, Comma for the reflection of all, Comma for consideration and stimulation and he should have just put an exclamation point at the end just to cover all the spaces.
He missed that Oxford comma after consideration though. But it was a kind of a kooky book he talked about life his lifestyle and what you know he believed his version of the Laban's reform was and then he also wrote poems about coconuts.
Yeah like Mother Coconut, The Coconut Spirit, How to Become a Coconut those were titles of some of the poems and tracks that he included in this book and like it's really hard to overstate just how much faith this guy placed in the coconut as the source of not just life but health and it was based on some somewhat unfounded ideas.
Episode: Short Stuff: The Coconut Cult
It was a rather eccentric book in which August Engelhardt detailed his lifestyle and beliefs surrounding the Laban's reform movement, with a focus on the coconut's importance.
So in 1898 he wrote a book called A Carefree Future, Colon, The New Gospel, Semi-Colon. That's rare. Glimpse into the depth and distance for the selection of mankind, Comma, Comma for the reflection of all, Comma for consideration and stimulation and he should have just put an exclamation point at the end just to cover all the spaces.
He missed that Oxford comma after consideration though. But it was a kind of a kooky book he talked about life his lifestyle and what you know he believed his version of the Laban's reform was and then he also wrote poems about coconuts.
Yeah like Mother Coconut, The Coconut Spirit, How to Become a Coconut those were titles of some of the poems and tracks that he included in this book and like it's really hard to overstate just how much faith this guy placed in the coconut as the source of not just life but health and it was based on some somewhat unfounded ideas.