Yes, but what are all these guises, aspects presentations? Only manifestations of what we all are at different times, according to... how these needs are pulled out of us. I write in these bald words the deepest lessons of my life, the truest substance of what I have learned. I am not only a Chronicler of Zone Three, or only partially, for I also share in Al*Ith's condition of being ruler insofar as I can write of her, describe her. I am woman with her (though I am a man) as I write of her femaleness--and Dabeeb's. I am Ben Ata when I summon him into my mind and try to make him real. I am ... what I am at the moment I am that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirit...ed chronicler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions... To keep mine honor from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real pleasure of being Mick Jagger was in having everything but being tempted by nothing ... a smouldering ill will which silk... clothes, fine food, wine, women, and every conceivable physical pampering somehow aggravated ... a drained and languorous, exquisitely photogenic ennui.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And when the festival was over, that was the end of it all. And I do not think I am being fanciful when I say that this was at lea...st partly because it had already taken place--but elsewhere. After all, this story of Al*Ith has taught us all that what goes on in one Zone affects the others, even when we believe we are hostile, or forget everything that goes on outside our own borders. We share and exchange our times of sluggishness, insularity, self- applause. When those women stove and struggled to lift their poor heads up so they could see our mountain towering over them it was as if they were secretly pouring energy and effort into springs that fed us all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet there is a mystery here and it is not one that I understand: without the sting of otherness, of--even--the vicious, without th...e terrible energies of the underside of health, sanity, sense, then nothing works or can work. I tell you that goodness-what we in our ordinary daylight selves call goodness: the ordinary, the decent--these are nothing without the hidden powers that pour forth continually from their shadow sides. Their hidden aspects contained and tempered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that... phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a continuous movement now, from Zone Five to Zone Four. And from Zone Four to Zone Three, and from us, up the pass. Ther...e was a lightness, a freshness, and an enquiry and a remaking and an inspiration where there had been only stagnation. And closed frontiers. For this is how we all see it now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »