circling the unnamable

Perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, and, if you feel that you are being taken away by anything, not to let yourself be lured into taking a single unnecessary step, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction; in short, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains within you, that is, to enlarge the final peace of the graveyard and let nothing survive save that. -Franz Kafka

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“While he had been pondering these matters, time had moved ahead surprisingly fast. This boy who was so inexpert at thinking was surprised to discover that one of the expected properties of thought was its efficacy as a time-killer. Nevertheless the strong-willed young man abruptly turned off his thoughts: no matter how efficacious if might be, what he had discovered above all else about this new habit of thinking was that it also comprised point-blank peril.”

-Yukio Mishima, 潮騒 (The Sound of Waves)

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