In this particular lifestyle the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.
Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
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A pageant of the Eastern gods is unfolding as I dance naked towards his naked body. The wheel of creation and destruction, things of surface and illusion dying into purer being. We are the perfected. Changing yet unchanging in annulled time. I dance toward him and each moment is lost, unremembered.
Mary Sativa, Acid Temple Ball [Amazon]
And remember, dying is a serious business. If a man dies with a sin on his soul, he goes to Spain.
Trevanian, Shibumi: A Novel [Bookshop, Amazon, Author]
Even when the magic goes away, the world moves relentlessly. It’s Life, the cycle of living and dying.
J Damask, Wolf at the Door
