Attitudes And Non-Attitudes In May

July 15, 2004

1.

You can see the clarity in Philby's thinking in how few corrections he's made.

2.

You will face the Luftwaffe—alone.

3.

Striving to be insulted:
it's like the reality principle:
a kind of a receiving station
for the ephemera of daily trust.

4.

(They were pointing us toward their absolutes.)

5.

Those questions that have caused you so much anxiety
do not have to be answered.

6.

Any life is tainted.
Hence, no touching the fleshy, lubricated parts.

7.

Gottfried Benn observing the flower of a fatal knife wound.

8.

Walking away with the sunlight on your shirt.