In some den of exiled dreamers I was introduced to the great German Nihilist philosopher, Professor de Worms. I did not gather much about him beyond his appearance, which was very disgusting, and which I studied carefully. I understood that he had proved that the destructive principle in the universe was God; hence he insisted on the need for a furious and incessant energy, rending all things in pieces.

He called me one day and said, “Powers, my researches have led me to believe I have the power to forgive sins.”  I said, “Well, who have you forgiven?”  He said, “Nobody … I forgave the cat’s sins and went to bed.”

In the Orgasmic Meditation world, we talk about “increasing your havingness level.”

Wizards tend to be both highly sensitive and highly in touch with their emotions.

Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War.

Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

Personally I would’ve preferred Cat World, but to each his own.

This may re­flect a cer­tain crit­i­cal di­vide re­gard­ing Watts’ work in gen­eral; his bi­par­tite novel βehe­moth, for ex­am­ple, was praised by Pub­lisher’s Weekly as an “adren­a­line-charged fu­sion of Clarke’s The Deep Range and Gib­son’s Neu­ro­mancer”, while being si­mul­ta­ne­ously de­cried by Kirkus as “ut­terly re­pel­lent… hor­rific porn”.

It struck me as rather funny that you should want to hide from me, for the following reason: I have been morally dead for more than a year!

It should therefore not be surprising to see on the list of Kolakowski’s publications titles such as The Key to Heaven, Conversations with the Devil, “Can the Devil be Saved?,” “The Devil and Politics,” or “A Stenographic Report of the Devil’s Metaphysical Press Conference in Warsaw, on the 20th of December, 1963.”