"Once I thought to be human was the highest aim a man could
have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. Today I am proud to say
that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have
nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking
machinery of humanity -- I belong to the earth! I say that lying on my pillow
and I can feel the horns sprouting from my temples. I can see about me all
those cracked forebears of mine dancing around the bed, consoling me, egging me
on, lashing me with their serpent tongues, grinning and leering at me with
their skulking skulls. I am inhuman! I say it with a mad, hallucinated grin,
and I will keep on saying it though it rains crocodiles." ~ Henry Miller, from
Tropic Of Cancer
That's my man there!
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