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It is Impossible

"It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone. " - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part 1

The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter, by Ezra Pound

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse; You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums. And we went on living in the village of Chokan: Two small people, without dislike or suspicion. At fourteen I married My Lord you. I never laughed, being bashful. Lowering my head, I looked at the wall. Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back. At fifteen I stopped scowling, I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. Why should I climb the lookout? At sixteen you departed, You went into far Ku-to-en, by the river of swirling eddies, And you have been gone five months. The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead. You dragged your feet when you went out. By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses, Too deep to clear them away! The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind. The paired butterflies are already yellow with...

Knife Edged Shadows

Everything was broken and poisoned. The light was too bright but had no force. It leached into the deep shadows unenthusiastically, lending a spotted and diseased look to the battle ground between light and dark. The roses no longer looked like an integrated whole but rather like a collection of random elements stuck together by the diseased light. Sounds were high pitched and painful to the ear. Escape came only in sleep and slowly the idea of endless sleep became attractive. Poor brain chemistry inexorably translated into a simple series of stereotyped actions that would end the world. If perception caused reality and , though it deeply deserved destruction, destroying the universe was impractical then destroying the perceiver could have the same effect. Suicide as mass destruction. Fall into a bottom-less pit of sleep and drag the world in afterwards.

Hear My Voice - Gary Numan

Listen to my voice And please try to understand The one you call Messiah is a lie You are not the plan And your beginning to annoy You are just a game and It has won You will never see The places promised by your faith You will never know eternal peace The God you love is gone He lies broken by your shame The thing that took His place already died It will send Angels Send black Angels for you I am just a voice That no-one else will hear Only you are pure enough for truth You must write 'The Book' And then tear away belief Only you can save the light of man It will send Angels Send black Angels for you