Of any cosmogony
there is just enough
to believe or disbelieve,
but to completely disregard
is folly.

someone recently asked me what author i would chose if i could only select one from the UK....i had little trouble with that one...i had to imagine myself in a Castaway scenario...what author would keep me from going nuts...William Blake...the fucker was crazy, thus taking away any fear on my part that would result from a ruthless psychological self-evaluation...a mystic...from the Middle East - Rumi...from India - Rushdie...from France (possibly the hardest) Rimbaud...U.S. - Robert Anton Wilson...Mexico - Fuentes...Russia - Chekhov (mostly due to the fact that he wrote stories)...Canada - Ondaatje (poetry)...Trinidad - Lovelace...Tanzania - Nyerere...the rest i haven't figured out yet...especially Germany...Goethe? Nietzsche? Marx? impossible...