"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
20 October 2013
Triumph and Repair
There is no way to reward the righteous army of happy-to-be-happy automatons while being engaged (and curious) in matters of the sublime. The emotions and the intellectual air that satisfy the simplest among us with a shorthand for meaning and purpose will not reach into the complex fortresses that philosophers (and madmen) construct out of a plethora of words that they have learned from books (and hallucinations). This place is grateful sancturary from a contentious culture this earnest coverage of the quieting that has been slowly
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