IX. CRYIN' MAN - SELF-INTOXICATION

It’s all cool. Keep crying. I know . . . It’s maddening, isn’t it? Pressure is a privilege. Better embrace it. Like in tennis. Not exactly. But still . . . Only madmen can be really calm. Self-regulating, and self-reproducing can’t be a walk in the park. This thing called sensitivity could set you up for an intensified failure, but . . . Don’t get me wrong, I actually envy you for all those tears and not only for that . . . You are so lucky.

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VIII. CONFESSION

What’s more significant than myself . . . Only the idea about myself. The indisputable datum of my eternal thereness can be commensurable only to my immortality. The prerogative of being immortal constitutes the leisure of practicing infinite scrutinizing and contemplation. Leafing through this heavy album with color reproductions is like gazing through a tiny window at life’s cruel, laughable affair, overpopulated by those harnessed participants glorifying and promoting their incurable fears while flirting with death’s noseless grin and finally falling into death’s unforgiving grip.

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This is the first page of the story. I charge a subscription of $36 per year for access to all my stories. There are 15 stories currently on my website -- ogoart.com -- and I will publish a new one each month, together with -- from time to time -- some excerpts from my novels. To subscribe, go to my website at www.ogoart.com and click on "Writings".