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“In a Lydian voice she said, 'Come quick, I will plug up your tight asshole.' And she beat my balls with a branch as though I were a scapegoat. I tripped, and stuck on the gallows I suffered a double torture: a branch lashed my chest; someone wet me with cowshit and my ass stank. Beetles came, drawn by the stinking gook like summer flies. They fell on me, shoved, filing their teeth on my bones. The invasion complete, I ached more than a Pygelian plague.”

“In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.”

“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.”