Friday, February 13, 2004

On Friday, February 13, 2004
he received a letter from Harry Haller of Steppenwolf. "Dear Pete," wrote Harry, "your letter concerned the nature of identity. At times, you feel simeltaneously drawn in two separate directions. One part of you yearns for the visceral, the physical, for wild spontaneity and brute force. The other pulls towards the cerebral, towards music and philosophy and literature, towards the transcendant. One part craves chaos, the other craves order. One part would inflict its will on a stale world, the other would withdraw into the mind. This dicthomoty breeds a misconception that has plagued Western civilization for centuries, Peter, the misconception of man's dualistic soul, of a base animal nature to suppress and a spiritual nature to exalt. But in truth, we carry a thousand souls, we project a thousand compromised and cross-referenced selves all fighting for recognition, expression, and apology."

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