Decades had passed, and he was old, inured to strangeness. Nothing had been confirmed except a long-suppressed suspicion of men’s selfishness.

Mary Sativa, The Lovers’ Crusade

Hermetic quote Sativa Crusade selfishness

Consider also:

  1. “The chant shattered and repeated like the diabolic designs in the pagan mosaics that snared the eyes and mind—forms without images, the ghosts of flowers and fruit, the convolutions of the brain.”
  2. “wherever that ill delusion of the Higher Selfishness exists in man, there is his altruism tainted”
  3. “Roll my hips, feel him deep and solid inside me, solid and real as space on acid, the shape of desire.”
  4. “Dorothy dancing on the beach, arms raised and bleeding; there should be Krishna-angels in white robes to kneel at her feet and catch the blood in their open mouths, mouths strained open like chalices; the beat of the flutes and drums.”
  5. “Hey, how are you doing?” San Francisco-gracious, the noblesse oblige of those totally wiped out on drugs