How we cite our quotes: (Record.Paragraph)
Quote #7
There, angels, the slaves of God, are blissful, with surgically excised imaginations (which is why they are blissful). (36.9)
Is the author suggesting that bliss is unattainable: that as long as we are on this earth, we won't know real bliss, since the end of want and desire means the end of anything happening at all?
Quote #8
Before, everything revolved around the sun; now I know that everything revolves around me—slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes… (13.29)
Happiness is expressed as perfect narcissism here: a neat reversal of the State's supremacy over all. But is the supremacy of the individual expressed in this quote any different, any less evil?