still enamored with the null that we call life. this town is holding me down. the people and the ideas here are so one dimensional. ranting and raging to nobody on this pixelated page but there was an interesting and inspiring passage i read the other day in a book titled "A Rebours" by Huysmans. of course, i speak no french so i was reading the translation by Robert Baldick

"Against Nature" page 92

"He too preached the nullity of existence, the advantages of solitude, and warned humanity that whatever it did, whichever way it turned, it would always remain unhappy - the poor because of the sufferings born of privation, the rich because of the unconquerable boredom engendered by abundance."