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epigrams, essays and outbursts, March 6, 2003
book of epigrams, essays and outbursts on various subjects, like
literature (see the section: "The Word Defiled), music (see: "
Dialogues with Silence") and love.Here are a few of my favorites, to give you a taste: If there is a pleasure involved in looking at things, it is the
pleasure of being neither them nor ourselves. Sight allows us to slip
between the weight of our own being and that of the world and to unwind
in the emptiness between them. Crucifixion is a piece of extravagance which only a god of Christ's
caliber could have gotten away with. Could a Jupiter or a Vishnu have
retained his clout nailed to a cross? The ultimate thief, music steals from us our dreams, our emotions, and
our memories, and then disappears without a trace. After spending the day in solitude, you desire to go out in the evening
with friends, and after going out in the evening with friends, to spend
the rest of your days in solitude. The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve
around chastity. God does not have the monopoly on omnipresence: this is a privilege
enjoyed by Injustice as well. The writer, making every effort to appear innocent and noble, takes his
revenge with the pen; while the murderer, less hypocritical, takes it
with the sword.
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