No special reason for these quotes just now, but I was thumbing through a book and chanced to find them. They are overwritten in a magnificent way ... if you don't know the author search him out, because he's good at this sort of thing.
"We build our fantasies and surrender to them. Auto-intoxication. All inside our fucking heads. A form of narcissism. But I never jettison my long friendship with reality. Reality is a good mistress. She allows me infidelities because she knows I know the value of a cold shower and will come back shivering, but unscathed."
Or again:
"The past is not revered for truths it has revealed and tested at great cost, but is dragooned and corrupted to go bail for the crimes of an arrogant present."
-- Owen Ulph, The Leather Throne, p. 468-9
P.S. If you actually want to take my advice on someone so crazy, start with The Fiddleback: Lore of the Line Camp. It is shorter and therefore way more accessible than The Leather Throne.
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