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My favorite novels are House of Leaves (I met Mark Z. Danielewski--signed copy of Only Revolutions as proof!), Gormenghast Trilogy, and Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shae's Illuminatus! Trilogy. Poetry? Charles Baudelaire. Nonfiction? Spirituality, Philosophy, Science (Quantum Physics, Biology,… (edited) read more

“In art it is necessary to study ‘occultism’—the hidden side of life. The artist must be a clairvoyant: must see that which others do not see." — P.D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum

Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology but mechanics." - Peter Ouspensky