"And then there is the horror of infinity. For the healthy visionary, the perception of the infinite in a finite particle is a revelation of divine immanence; for Renee, it was a revelation of what she calls "the System," the vast cosmic mechanism which exists only to grind out guilt, punishment, solitude, and unreality. Sanity is a matter of degree, and there are plenty of visionaries, who see the world as Renee saw it, but contrive, none the less, to live outside the asylum. For them, as for the positive visionary, the universe is transfigured--but for the worse. Everything in it, from the stars in the sky to the dust under their feet, is unspeakably sinister or disgusting; every event is charged with a hateful significance; every object manifests the presence of an indwelling horror, infinite, all powerful, eternal." -Aldous Huxley
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:35:01 +0000
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