“But naturally no one, not even the families who benefited from them, liked to discuss these hidden aids (that put the odds of the game always in favor of the elites). After all, they dimmed the mystique surrounding the “self-made man,” seeming to indicate, as they did, that he took unfair advantage of those not […]
Continue reading“After the waves spent themselves against the sand, the lazy whitewater spume formed crescent shapes, which overlapped like paint blobs on an artist’s palette, some superjacent, some underneath. As I lost my sense of a separate self, a physical form with a so-called mind contained in that shape, my soul flowed out, spreading, deliquescing, and […]
Continue reading“On the dance floor, teenagers did somersaults across the slick wooden boards. One man walked on his hands. Heavy bass notes reverberated from somewhere outside the room, as though another band were playing close by, a possibility I knew to be false. Straight men hugged one another with the affection of couples. So profuse was […]
Continue reading“I remember seeing her standing on the high balcony, backdropped by a hazy range of Leonardo mountains and the vague river snaking by their feet. She was a Pacific Island girl, probably about thirty, at the acme of her feminine beauty. Her form waved up like an ondule-patterned silk, magic to the eyes. Her straight, black hair hung […]
Continue reading“’Angelsea’ captured the essence of woman, as the cosmic love force, moving with an angel’s grace, with the universe as her home, as a divine mermaid, her life-breath the heat of love itself, the paramour of magic, the speller of the gods themselves, clad in rainbows and teardrops. Cat Stevens sang it with the earthy […]
Continue reading“Skylar walked to Fairer Elementary school with his brother. They only needed to go half a block down Mayfield to the stop sign, turn right, walk to Hampshire, the next street over, then cross it to the school. Space and time had for him, in those days, an elasticity related to his consciousness, a sort […]
Continue reading“The ambience around an enlightened being is such that anyone in it has their attention ineluctably broadened to the most expansive and generous outlook. It is as though the holy person merely points up to the sky and everyone around him stops concentrating on the thorns and pebbles over which they are trudging and gazes […]
Continue reading“Skylar was not escaping from an ugly world to a more beautiful one (alright, to be honest, he was); at least, he was not just escaping. He was discovering, in these reveries, according to his mode of analysis, a more ontologically valid world than the one in which everyone else appeared to live. In his […]
Continue reading“But she could not continue to exist under the false, hard light of mental man. On the polarities of the cross of the material-thing, she would be sacrificed. She could not truly be perceived as something other than himself. Only in that state of awareness wherein an oceanic unity prevailed, making all its own, could […]
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