Salon.com Life: "Whatever it is, something is clearly calling your name and it's not the life you're living... we become divided when we neglect the inner life of symbols. We neglect the inner life of symbols when the outer life of objects consumes us. The world of things exhausts us because it gives nothing back; the objects don't breathe, they don't sing; even a diamond ring just glitters in silence. I think you're looking for a song filled with soul. At least that's what I would be looking for if I were caught in the jaws of whatever's eating you. So all I can say is: sketch the beast. What is it whose hour has come 'round at last? What does it look like and what is it slouching toward? Get hypnotized if you have to so you can see it. You've got to give it form, whatever is calling your name. You've got to apprehend it clearly. "

Jef's Web Files | Empathy, Energy, Efficiency, Extropy: "Dr. Jules Cotard (1840-1889) was a Parisian neurologist who first described the delire des negations. Cotard's syndrome or Cotard's delusion comprises any one of a series of delusions ranging from the fixed and unshakable belief that one has lost organs, blood, or body parts to believing that one has lost one's soul or is dead. In its most profound form, the delusion takes the form of a professed belief that one does not exist." (shamelessly cribbed from Warren Ellis)

Salon.com Life | Going crazy: "Einstein on Cuervo, meet Dumbbell. Dumbbell is just a simple guy who wants a woman to be kind to him and love him like a decent girl. But Einstein on Cuervo likes the wild and crazy relativity writ large across the sky, the paradoxes and intrigues that lie at the very foundations of matter and energy: He especially likes them written across a woman's body, because then the woman, superficially innocent and seductive as she is, represents the universe in all its cruel complexity and paradox. "