Fiction

“Not backward can the Will will; that it cannot break time and time’s desire—that is the Will’s most lonesome tribulation.* Willing emancipateth: what doth Willing itself devise in order to get free from its tribulation and mock at its prison? “ – Nietzsche, The Redeemed. Thus Spake Zarathurstra It was in her, the rape. It had been there for as long as she could remember. A dark simmering of silent awareness that hooked its million pinned proboscis into the drifting energies of the environment from which she’d grown. Consent classes, graphic news stories, harassment panics, extreme TV and virtual reality, a confused miasma of cultural expression that from one minute to the next, couldn’t decide its own intent. At once, it expressed itself in an elaborate edifice of terror and deterrence, yet, at the same …

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