February 25, 2003 - 9:22 p.m.
"Je veux m'evader - this dirty world, this dirty body. I never wish to make love again with anything more than the body".
where gioVanni had Been There woulD be nothing, nothing forever.
People are full of surprises, even for themselves, if they have been stirred enough.
"NObody can sTay in the GarDen of Eden - I wondEr why?"
The question is banal but one of the real troubles with living is that living is so banal. EveryOne, after all, GoEs the same dark road - and the road has a tricK of beIng most dark , mots TreAcherous, when iT seems most light...
Perhaps life only offers the choice of remembering the garDen or ForGetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget...
it takes something altogether different to do both.
People who remember court madness through pain,
the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence.
People who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and hatred of innocence; and hte world is mostly divided between madmen who remember
and madmen who forget.
the other is rare.
