the Viscount’s wickedness spared no one and could burst at any moment into the most unforeseen and incomprehensible actions.

Italo Calvino, The Cloven Viscount [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Calvino The Cloven Viscount wickedness spared no one could burst any moment unforeseen incomprehensible action

Consider also:

  1. Omnium Gatherum: 10aug2022
  2. “Dreams you can’t hold onto and secrets you can never share, and lies, and living conspiracies. It’s a conceptual subculture, of ideas consuming other ideas and… sometimes… segments of reality. Sometimes, people. “
  3. “This used to be a church-controlled, Calvinistic, sexually repressed, macho, violent, dark-minded, witch-burning country, and our fractured laughter is screaming who-fucking-cares promises of survival into the yawning maw of the void.”
  4. “The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”
  5. “ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. “