Heroes Of Consciousness

Literary intelligence redeems the world. Follow the poor righteous poets.

In a way, we’re all dumpster-divers, picking our way through the trash and noise and stink that crowd the world until we find a small treasure here and there.

Whenever you find something worth pocketing, do so and then continue to scavenge. The more of these shiny treasures you pocket, the deeper your pockets become. The important thing to understand is that it’s the pockets that count more than anything else, for they are our consciousness. The epic hero (think Gilgamesh or Hamlet or Stephen Dedalus) eventually achieves a capacious consciousness.

He who dies with the most capacious consciousness wins.