
Saved by Aeinnor Reyes
How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go
Saved by Aeinnor Reyes
Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; ie, the fear of falling remains a constant ... It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on... See more
It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature but as the essence of conscious existence. It is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self at the self’s most elementary levels. It is a nausea of the cells and soul ... It ... is probably mostly... See more