Zerissenheit

Hopelessness is the most solemn and supreme moment in life. Till that point we have been assisted - now we are left to ourselves. Previously we had to do with men and human laws - now with eternity and with the complete absence of laws...


--there's a cruelty to his irony, a ruthlessness to his self-cannibalism. entrenchement, a machine of decomposition (de-composer: think musically, a symphony of decay), where to bleed is to know, to bruise is to understand... the fatality of all crucial experiences... where hands replace eyes as organs of perception, enatiling proximity contact contamination vulnerability (whereas vision is based on distance, safety, distinction) ... where futility is not the frustration of one's hopes but a prized vantage point for the athletic leap of consciousness into its own complexity, consciuosness taken to its own end... where pain solitude terror death all become possibilities, doors, chances that must be mined, where no salvation is allowed, no prinicple or standpoint that does not immediately consume itself, his is a nihilism that blazes against the night sky, he makes the nothing move... "and all is possible because nothing is relevant"