"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
08 May 2011
The Skin Flute Variations
Out of my alienation, out of the profound isolation, I began to piece the universe back together and--by seeing the variations in shade and color and then by subjecting those variations to the scrutiny of science, I delighted in taxonomy believing the hypnosis of words, my own and others. I was able to see the connection between two highly divergent specimens outside of habitat and habit and it was not found in ecology nor economics but rather in the simple, human spiritual urge
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