'What is Man?...a phantom in the mirror of time...' --Secundus the Philosopher

'Truly, truly, I say to thee, no prophet went to the light.'
--Pistis Sophia (iii.135)

"From one point of view, magical progress actually consists in deciphering one's own record." --Magick in Theory and Practice

   "Alexandrines

Knowing the weariness of dreams, and days, and nights,
The great and grievous vanity of joy and pain;
Frail loves that pass, where languors infinite remain,
Fervours and long despairs and desperate, brief delights;
Knowing how in the witless brains of them that were,
The drowsy, wiving worm hath prospered and hath died;
Knowing that, evermore, by moon and sun abide
The standing glooms made stagnant in the sepulchre;
Knowing the vacillant leaves that tremble, flame, and fall,
The sweetly-wasting rose, the dawns and stars that wane--
Knowing these things, the desolate heart and soul are fain
Of the one perfect sleep which filleth, foldeth all."

--Clark Ashton Smith

I read my journals; i am like a snail who looks back on the trail he has left and says, "Goodness, I must be melting! Why can't I keep all the traces of my passage--I'd be so much bigger then..." --by wishing not to forget my insights. The premature ones, rather.

"...let's face it, with the money it took to build a single provincial Art Fortress & Boutique like the Dallas Museum of Art you could have subsidized every artist in Renaissance Italy into his dotage with enough left over to bring out the Divine Comedy in paperback." --Dave Hickey