Springing Forth

These are such narrow channels we must negotiate as our craft comes to rest in its safe harbor. All passion spent, we can walk away from bodies of water that would otherwise hold us hostage to desires large and small, as one longing dissolves into another. Oh, the solvency of water may make this present desire disappear, but from it springs forth another desire, and yet another. What if all of these small desires coalesce into one giant Desire, and it challenges the Nature of Things? I have done my part to prevent this. I have established the Law of Things. You approved these principles: "Desire and Death are Siblings, " "Desire pretends to be the Future, but it's always the cold dead Past, " "Desire dazzles you with sudden illumination, in a realm of Darkness, " "D e s i r e - See how it vanishes into the neighboring nothingness." Fix these principles into the currents of everybody's brain, let deep ruts in the brain's mental channels stall speed-of-light thoughts, starve the Mind of necessity and pleasure, dim the urge to know, abolish the light of conscience, fall into drunken sleep. It should be easy to eliminate higher categories of being: Just deny the reality of Soul, argue we are not soulful creatures, laugh as your soul withers and dies. Boy, think of the weight you won't have to carry!