escape

a chapter

"one started to wonder whether a common recognition of pain remains feasible, or whether there would be a return of an a priori for that makes the sensible prevail and the feeling of loss reach a universal validity, or whether there should be a mediation of influence in order to attempt to make sense of the randomness of it all.

yet even in the widespread rack and ruin, my silence refused to accept the banality of death."

72/99 scraps of thought from Goenawan Mohamad's On God and Other Unfinished Things