Tuesday, January 30

dumb dream scared me up from my beauty sleep.




I met Murder on the way—
Murder is terribly exhausting.


Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

(Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935), U.S. essayist, editor. Money and Class in America, ch. 4 (1988).)