Brodhi, 18, and born 150 years late... Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and quiet desperation; only to discover when it is to late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Most of us are old enough to know worse then to be led astray into the paths of virtue. If you want to be a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. Although, if you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know, you will never become anything, and that is your reward. So select from the diversion of your mind and the delight of your eyes' works, a suggestive charm; introduce yourself to an unfamiliar world, revealing traces of new possibilities, stirring one's nervous system by erudite fantasies, complicated dreams of horror, visions of careless wickedness and cruelty, then, and only then will you be free from the corrupt arms of human consciousness. It is now that you will find that which you are unsure of what you are searching for, because in actual fact, you already have it, but are too ignorant to realise it. //
