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Exercise in Description, part IV

• April 30, 2008 • 7 Comments

Posted in Evil, humor, writing
Tags: art, culture, family, humor, life, misfortune, people, personal, random, thoughts, writing

Hope Deferred Maketh Something Sick

• April 12, 2008 • 6 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: art, culture, driving, ecstasy, life, literature, personal, philosophy, poetry, random, reflection, religion, shame, spirituality, thoughts, writing

Exercise in Description, part III

• April 8, 2008 • 4 Comments

Posted in Evil, illustration, poetry, spirituality, writing
Tags: art, culture, literature, nature, philosophy, poetry, random, regret, remorse, spiders, spirituality, thoughts, writing

How Hallucinogens Ruined My Life, sections I & II

• April 4, 2008 • 7 Comments

Posted in childhood, personal, religion, spirituality, thoughts, writing
Tags: childhood, culture, family, hallucinogens, insanity, law, life, literature, LSD, madness, personal, peyote, poetry, politics, psilocybin, random, religion, salvia, schizophrenia, spirituality, thoughts, writing

Contrapositivistic Solipsism

• April 1, 2008 • 4 Comments

Posted in personal, poetry, spirituality
Tags: art, culture, life, literature, personal, philosophy, poetry, random, religion, spirituality, thoughts, writing

Vignettes

The window was open, and while he was performing his new piano piece for friends (his hands ignoring the middle register and spread strangely upon the bass and treble) he heard some laughter behind him. In the street a cart of wares had been overturned with a great crash. "Was that a diminishless overdominant 13th, Claude?" someone commented derisively, snorting. Despite his usual reserve Debussy stopped, turned around and growled, "Why, can you not listen to a chord you don't know the name of?"