Your idea of embracing horrorwas overwhelmed by the horror:
in the mildmilkiness of the afternoon, on the bluffthat commands a vision of bank towersknifing up far higher than the rising, emptyshell of the moon ... on the height where you standand still can't understand your lifeas anything but slow dying, your time seeps outas into a warm bath, the way the exemplary careerof Petronius the Just -- pornographer and satirist .-once leaked away.
