Gurdain

…fiction you’ll find suicide. Nearly every intellectual conversation upsets me, and if it doesn’t, I desperately crave that person’s friendship. In Tampa, at a writer’s conference, I slept a total of seven hours but had 14 drinks. I’m not prou…

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

… deadly thoughts because of the despair and absolute disdain for life it produced in a human being. It’s a shame the word has been lost to ancient textbooks and is no longer used, because acedia’s connotations carry far more weight in today’s cultural environment.