Behind the mask lies flesh, behind the flesh lies desire and fear, locked in a game, whose subtle dynamic is the whip of existence.

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It is easy for me to contemplate my sins... they are responsible for some of the most memorable and enjoyable moments of my life.

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"Success will paint Apocalypse across the sky."
-William S. Burroughs, ApocalypseThe third and final post on this series which first started in January. I can now conclude it. I must now conclude it. Kill it. Let it live whole. Three different parts from three different perspectives of my life. Three different levels of assimilation. It may be even ( Read more... )

"Death is the only absolute in life, the only surety and truth. Because it is the only condition which all life must take into account, it is the only human a priori. Life matures, develops and aims at death. Death is its very purpose. We live in order to die. Life and death are contained within each other, are understandable only in terms of each ( Read more... )

"The first movement in working through any problem is taking the problem upon oneself as an experience. One enters an issue by joining it. One approaches death by dying. Approaching death requires a dying in soul, daily, as the body dies in tissue. (...) Therefore, working at the death problem is both a dying from the world with its illusory ( Read more... )