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Thanks for visiting my page! I'm a writer and philosopher living in Edmonton, Alberta, with a penchant for extreme metal and everything horror. My novella "Ich Will" and novel "Odin Rising" are available on Amazon. I'm currently writing my second novel, "This Town Must Burn." For more information visit: axlbarnes.blogspot.com ...more

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	Ich Will 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Routine Crucifixion

Illustration by Brendan McCarthy Shoved out of bed into the blinding light,
I rushed to piece myself together.
The sweaty bed sheets were all crumpled from my twisting and turning.
I made one into a noose
and hung it from the broken spring of my neck.
I screwed the metal black box of my head on top,
Inflated my lungs,
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Hitching Rides in the Darkness: And Other Short Stories of Dark Fiction

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“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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“That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.”
― Eugène Ionesco, Man With Bags

tags: dystopia, nihilism, theater

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“Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.”
― Cornel West, Cornel West Reader

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: infinity, perception

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“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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