I'm reading this wonderful book right now called Bird Without Wings by british novelist Louis De Bernieres. The same author who wrote Captain Corellli's Mandolin. It's set during the fall of the Ottoman empire during the First World War. But thats not what this entry is about, rather at the beginning of the book there is this short poem by greek author Spyros Kyriazopoulos entitled The Cat.
I'm pasting the version here, because it fascinates me a great deal, and I find it quite profoundly thought provoking.
If anyone has any thoughts please share.


The Cat
She was licking
the open tin
for hours and hours
without realising
that she was drinking
her own blood.

I was going through some old things, and came across an old journal of mine, it was the one from when I was going through this deep repressed gothic-esque angst. I figured I'd post an excerpt from one of the entries, just to sort of reflect on the growth of thought processes through the ages.

Staring into the darkened abyss
Soul pried away from flesh
bodies lie naked,exposed, heaped
The flames licking swirling
Baring with translucent eyes
Daggers piercing tearing apart
Pungent and rank the foulest of smells
Perfuming the atmosphere
smothered, suffocated, stifled
Black to white, white to black
Oozing thick and bittersweet
petrified viscosity
Dead.

"Both Revelation and delusion are attempts at the solution of problems. Artists and scientists realize that no solution is ever final but that each new creative stop, points the way to the next artistic or scientific problem. In contrast, those who embrace religious revelations and delusional systems tend to see them as unshakable and permanent....
Religious faith is an answer to the problem of life... The majority of mankind want or need some all-embracing belief system which purports to provide an answer to life's mysteries, and are not necessarily dismayed by the discovery that their belief system, which they proclaim as "the truth" is incompatible with the beliefs of other people. One man's faith is another man's delusion... Weather a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the number of people subscribing to it."
----Anthony Storr
Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners and Madmen: A Study of Gurus.