I ask myself: what are my views on death, the next world, God? I look into my mind and discover I am too much of a mannikin to hav...e any. As for death, I am a little bit of trembling jelly of anticipation. I am prepared for anything, but I am the complete agnostic; I simply don't know. To have views, faith, beliefs, one needs a backbone. This great bully of a universe overwhelms me. The stars make me cower. I am intimidated by the immensity surrounding my own littleness. It is futile and presumptuous for me to opine anything about the next world. But I hope for something much freer and more satisfying after death, for emancipation of the spirit and above all for the obliteration of this puny self, this little, skulking, sharp-witted ferret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Soft are the hands of Love, but what soft hands... clutched at the thorny ground, scratched like a small white ferret or foraging whippet or hound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling aroun...d, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it: a mouse in a pitch barrel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »