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*LOOKING FOR THE MOON

"Sluiced light across the brushstrokes
of quiet, like feet on the sink
trying to see-

nuances of the decline
in stain and the smudged beauty
of halves, smiling."*- AMARIS, poor Amaris - too tender a soul to withstand the comptetive, often hatefilled world that is AP...

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"I ended by despising the learning that had first been my pride; the studies that up to then had been my whole live now seemed to me to have a mere accidentaland conventional connexion with myself.  I found out that I was something different and - oh rapture! - that I had a seperate existance of my own.  Inasmuch as I was a specialist, I appeared to myself senseless; inasmuch as I was a man, did I know myself at all?  I had only just been born and could not as yet know \what\ I had been born.  It was that I had to find out.
   There is nothing more tragic for a man who has been expecting to die than a long convalescence.  After that touch from the wing of Death, what seemed important is no longer; other things become so which had at first seemed unimportant, or which one did not even know existed.  The miscellaneous mass of acquired knowledge of every kindthat has overlain the mind gets peeled off in places like a mask of paint, exposing the bare skin - the very flesh of the authentic creature that had lain hidden beneath it."
- The Immoralist, André Gide

"most of them believe that it is only by restraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they livein a state of psychological distortion.  It is his own self that each of them is most afraid of resembling.  Each of them sets up a patter and imirtates it; he doesn't even choose the pattern he imitates: he accepts a pattern that has been chosen for him.  And yet I verily believe there are other things to be read in a man.  But people don't dare to - they don't dare to turn the page.  Laws of Imitation!  Laws of fear, I call them.  THe fear of finding oneself alone - that is what they suffer from - and so they don't find themselves at all.  I detest such moral agoraphobia - the most odious cowardice I call it."
- Ménalque From the Immoralist, André Gide.



"they're just people," he said.  "They're just doing what people do.  Sir."
Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.
"Of course, of course," he said.  "You have to believe that, I appreciate.  Otherwise you'd go quite mad.  Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of hell.  Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death.  I quite understand."
-Terry Pratchett