'Ecstasis'is trancelike self-removal, schizoid or shamanistic. Dyonisus amorality cuts both ways. He is the god of theatre, masked balls, and free love; but also of anarchy, gang rape and mass murder.
Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia, 1990
Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien X, Candida Höfer
She is neither pink nor pale,
And she never will be all mine;
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
And her mouth on a valentine.
She has more hair than she needs;
In the sun ’tis a woe to me!
And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.
She loves me all that she can,
And her ways to my ways resign;
But she was not made for any man,
And she never will be all mine.
Witch-Wife, Edna St Vincent Millay
Do not marry, and you will also regret it. Marry or do not marry, you will regret it either way. Whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the stupidities of the world, and you will regret it; weep over them, and you will also regret it. Laugh at the stupidities of the world or weep over them, you will regret it either way. Whether you laugh at the stupidities of the world or you weep over them, you will regret it either way. Trust a girl, and you will regret it. Do not trust her, and you will also regret it. Trust a girl or do not trust her, you will regret it either way. Whether you trust a girl or do not trust her, you will regret it either way. Hang yourself, and you will regret it. Do not hang yourself, and you will also regret it. Hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret it either way. Whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret it either way.
Text by Søren Kierkegaard
The Liner, from BibliOdyssey
I can no more curse her than I can the fire that consumes towns and forests, the water which sinks ships, or the tiger carrying bleeding prey between its jaws into the depths of the jungle.
The Torture Garden, Octave Mirabeau
