what ocean can i cross
without losing sight
of the shore?

i leapt forthwith into water
but water turned to flame
and fire turned to coal
and drowning, aflame
i burned
namelessly.

i sank
into myself

i loved
love

i hated
hate

i needed
both

potentially heretical perspective on the old testament Satan

the devil is the principle by which
i rebel against
what wills to compromise the Dasein.

the devil is in fact
whom negiotiates
my pathetic bidding
in the glorious tribunal of god;
for the devil is gods' accuser,
and in liasion with god the devil is;
part of God the devil is;
on heavenly mission he is.

new additions finally

it seems to me impossible to refute
the mythology and the metaphysics of judeo-christianity
once you understand it properly.

however it is possible to refute its ethics
even if you understand them properly.

and it is from this insight i take the next step
in the general direction towards my redemption.

15 minute doodle

 SCYTHIAN DAWN

wind o wind o wind.
wind o wind whichs cleaves
the steppe in dire stagnation

eternal is the ride,
endless, the expanse

forever is the arrow
and the still air it slices
has no end to it either

below the ever-great sun-disc
they tremble
like hearts in lover-chests

half human, half stallion
hoof and hand, neigh and bow

into everlasting cold
echoing
aryan ancestry
from back centuries or even millenia

into ever-hinterlands
where slint-eyeds and blue-eyeds and brown-eyeds live
the steppe-nation spreads
like eagles soar
or how wolves migrate

 

NIGHT-TALK NOV 16.

 

Deep, deep goes the ladder down the slopes of European folklore, and dark, violent and immeasurably tragic it gets rather quickly. The Brothers Grimm sanitized their work after angry complaints from house-mothers and other folk finding issue with the explicit violence and deep depths of cavernous human darkness often portrayed within the stories. Also, basically every sexual reference was sanitized - censored - as well. Some anecdotes and stories omitted in subsequent editions of Grimm brothers' work are straight-up bizarre in their grisly, macabre depictions of murder and despair, such as this one, my favorite:

 

"One day, two brothers saw their father killing off a pig. They imitated what they saw and the older brother killed his younger brother. Their mother, who was giving the baby a bath, heard her child scream and abandoned the baby in the bath. When she saw what her eldest child had done, she took the knife out of her younger son's throat, and in her rage stabbed her older son in the heart. When the mother found out that meanwhile the baby had drowned in the tub, she felt an inconsolable desperation and committed suicide by hanging herself. After a long day of work in the field, the father came home. Finding out that his whole family was dead, he soon also died from sadness."

 

I can understand a German 1820's housewife taking offense with such fiction published in a work that, after all, was called "Children's & Household Tales". 

 

Bring back the old school Grimm. Apocryphal, botched Grimm tales should constitute a book of its own, as a raw and honest monument to European folklore.

 

European folklore lives forever, and Europe will too.