“Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.â€
"The first lesson of the Mechanics: you were never here … Every causal system evolves without cause, within an absolute futurity where Divinity awaits, terrible and unacknowledged." (David Roden, Snuff Memories)