"it's only through form that we can realize emptiness."

[musettes]

"take off your clothes and join in, smith!" but on top of all that, the feelings about princess, i'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and i had really no lie come to a point where i regarded lust as offensive and even cruel.

(jack kerouac - dharma bums)