"Scissors Too Dull to Cut Paper"

"If not you, who?" So i start canvassing for Kerry on my block. The first ten houses have nobody home. Next, some kids playing hooky--they're too young to vote. At the next, a voice shouts, "Kerry? That commie pinko fag!" & so forth. In the background i hear Rush. The next, they shoot me.

02 08 04

'Nothing matters: a great discovery, if ever there was one, from which no one has been able to gain any advantage.' --Cioran, The New Gods tr Richard Howard

Careers in Art are not at an end, but their meaning is.

Nothing is so base a spectacle as the mass ejaculation of programmed sentiments.

'What was remarkable in paganism is that no radical distinction was made between believing and not believing, having faith or not having it.' --Cioran, ibid

It is probably not an uncommon experience to find one's body a little ill-fitting, but how many people find their mind, all of a sudden, like trying to drive someone else's car?

'And just as paganism was to give way before Christianity, so this last God will have to yield to some new belief. Stripped of aggression, He no longer constitutes an obstacle to the outburst of other gods; they need only arrive--and perhaps they will arrive. Doubtless they will not have the countenance nor even the mask of the gods, but they will be no less fearful for that.' --ibid
[Of course, what more naturally happens is that the nature of a god changes, while continuing to carry the same appearances; thus, modern Christians who do not realize they are worshipping Mars, the God of War, instead of their erstwhile Prince of Peace--& who find their old-school brethren insufficiently "Christian " for new realities.]