The Book of the Damned

“ONE of the dam-dest in our whole saturnalia of the accursedBecause it is hopeless to try to shake off an excommunicationonly by saying that we’re damned by blacker things than ourselves;and that the damned are those who admit they’re of thedamned. Inertia and hypnosis are too strong for us. We say that:then we go right on admitting we’re of the damned. It is only bybeing more nearly real that we can sweep away the quasi-things thatoppose us. Of course, as a whole, we have considerable amorphousness,but we are thinking now of “individual” acceptances. Widenessis an aspect of Universalness or Realness. If our syntheses disregardfewer data than do opposing syntheses which are often notsyntheses at all, but mere consideration of some one circumstanceless widely synthetic things fade away before us. Harmony is anaspect of the Universal, by which we mean Realness. If we approximatemore highly to harmony among the parts of an expression andto all available circumstances of an occurrence, the self-contradictorsturn hazy. Solidity is an aspect of realness. We pile them up, andwe pile them up, or they pass and pass and pass: things that bulklarge as they march by, supporting and solidifying one anotherAnd still, and for regiments to come, hypnosis and inertia rule…..”