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From so much self-revising, I've destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I'm now my thoughts and not I. I plumbed myself and dropped the plumb; I spend my life wondering if I'm deep or not, with no remaining plumb except my gaze that shows me - blackly vivid in the mirror at the bottom of the well - my own face that observes me observing it.

We're eternal tourists of ourselves, with no other landscape than what we are. We possess nothing, for we don't even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn't mine: it's me.

A spiral is a snake without a snake, vertically wound around nothing

I record the memory with a smile, and don’t even comment on the smile

My bitterness over nostalgia's impotence to revive and resurrect becomes tearful rage against god, who created impossibilities

A sunset is an intellectual phenomenon.

The highest nobility is to live with lucid futility to know nothing matters and still act with form, discipline, and intellectual elegance