in which agency is dissolved in a phantasmagoric haze of psychic and physical intoxicants. Like Burroughs, Spinoza shows that, far from being an aberrant condition, addiction is the standard state for human beings, who are habitually enslaved into reactive and repetitive behaviours" (2009: p. ...
But they are still in such preponderance, and the lovely countryside from all the inland heights down to the various, sometimes demonic chinoiseries of the shore, is still so undefaced by our standards, there is such pleasure to the eye and the mind everywhere, it is as though a know in ...
Slowly the haze started to lift, but this time Katz found himself back in his study. His chair was empty, the computer showed only a screen saver. Katz' shaking knees barely held him long enough to move the three steps to the chair. Heavily he plopped himself down. His trembling hand ...