Dairy of a Madman

Salon.com Life: “But honor your vulnerability to the siren. Honor your helplessness before the sultriness of her seductive song, that thing she does. Find a way to honor her power without letting her capture you. Like Ulysses, who had his men tie him to the mast, you’ve got to find a way to pass by her without going mad. That’s your challenge, my man: to find out, for the first time, just how powerful the siren can be, and just how dangerous to you.

…whatever it is in you that she’s got ahold of, cut it off. If you don’t, she is going to drag you down to the bottom wrapped in chains and gasping for air, and then she is going to swim to the surface like a happy mermaid who has never even heard your name. “