mortality

What I cherish in Bataille: his worldview. All, he says, is but part of a system of interplaying energetic forces. The system is such as to desire violent excess, chaos. All is desire to overflow, to explode, to release, to expend. Energetic frenzy is seemingly suspended- it's slowed up, congealed... Until the breaking point.  Read More »

I am alive. When I send a thought for movement to any part of my body, there is a response. I have the ability to think, to formulate new ideas, to create. I have the power to feel, to love, to cry, to want, to lie. Other people recognize my existance. I have made an impression on someone else's life. I can cease to exist some day, to die.

I don't remember these things often, but if you are like me, you have the occasional out of body experience in which you truly realize that you are alive.  Read More »

I recently heard that a girl I knew has been murdered. I didn’t know her well, but she lived just down the street from me. She seemed very sweet, and she was a beautiful girl; just 21 years old.  Read More »