I want to live in a new world, a true one of my own devising. Inexhaustible desire, at the service of a unique perception. That’s what life should be. A journey of the mind and heart that gives birth to something like Hopkins’ inscape or Machen’s hieroglyphics. Germinating an idea like that, tending it, urging it to grow until it roots itself in you and takes you over, and your life becomes the proof of it. Something so concrete, you can feel its edges a century later
—Wild Animus By Rich Shapero
