Andrew

“Even solidarity, the most honourable mode of
conduct of socialism, is sick. Solidarity was once intended to make the talk of brotherhood real, by lifting it out of generality, where it was an ideology, and reserving it for the particular, the Patty, as the sole representative in an antagonistic world of generality. It was manifested by groups of people who together put their lives at stake, counting their own concerns as less important in face of a tangible possibility, so that, without being possessed by an abstract idea, but also without individual hope, they were ready to sacrifice themselves for each other.”
― Adorno Theodor W., Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Out of a love that was more like a thirst for revenge, Yackichi erected a ridiculously expensive monument to his ancestors at the family temple.”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

“Etsuko placed her shopping bag on the doorstep as if she were listening to determine what sound it made...”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

“In the dark theater Lee could feel his body pull toward Allerton, an amoeboid protoplasmic projection, straining with a blind worm hunger to enter the other’s body, to breathe with his lungs, see with his eyes, learn the feel of his viscera and genitals. Allerton shifted in his seat. Lee felt a sharp twinge, a strain or dislocation of the spirit.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer