Enmerkar - This Ancient Land of Sorrow And Beauty

“Anyone wanting slyly to avoid suffering, identifies with the entirety of the universe, judges each thing as if he were it. In the same way, he imagines, at bottom, that he will never die. We receive these hazy illusions like a narcotic necessary to bear life…but if we are without a narcotic, an unbreathable void reveals itself….from that moment begins a singular experience. The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy coexist.” - Georges Bataille