Book Two ~ hand to mouth |
“Women are divinities. They are life.” Buddha |
Chapter One ~ pirates |
“Romance imposes a false formalized structure onto human relationships. Romance is a lie, a dance, a fiction, a blindness. People maim themselves in order to remain blind. They would rather hold onto the fictional romantic non-vision than risk seeing if love can rise with open eyes.” |
Chapter Two ~ intellectual stimulation |
“My mind is a wild animal, language has yet to tame her.” |
Chapter Three ~ outer space |
“I was raised to think of God as an insomniac spy whose eyes opened directly onto everyone’s reality.” |
Chapter Four ~ stalactites and dromedaries |
“It made me feel sexy, listening to her, I felt my sex, not just the physical acts, but the purpose and the reason for the soul of my sexuality.” |
Chapter Five ~ rhetorical device |
“My angels change places, they rotate shifts, go on vacation, tour other planets, then I get to deal with new aspects of myself, new messages, new mediums.” |
Chapter Six ~ savings accounts |
“Having begun life in a chaotic family, I craved security and so fit in well with my peers.” |
Chapter Seven ~ transcendancin |
“He was beautiful, an Adonis, thick black curls falling down to his shoulders.” |
Chapter Eight ~ salient |
“I have waited in vain for absolute clarity.” |
Chapter Nine ~ acquiescence |
“He lived inside a fine glass bubble of ego.” |
Chapter Ten ~ purple hyacinths |
“I would like to come see you,” he said. |
Chapter Eleven ~ seat belts |
“Tremendously good, tremendously huge, tremendously unusual to be understood.” |
Chapter Twelve ~ ecstasy |
“We sang soft and silly songs to celebrate the time.” |
Chapter Thirteen ~ commencement |
“The people who build civilizations are so different from the people who live in them.” |
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