"There are no longer 'dancers.' the possessed. The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed with heroes who live for us and whom we punish. If all the radios and televisions were deprived of their sources of power, all books and paintings burned tomorrow, all shows and cinemas closed, all the arts of vicarious existence...
We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark."
-- James Douglas Morrison from The Lords and the New Creatures.
"Players" -- the child, the actor, and the gambler.
The idea of chance is absent from the world of
the child and the primitive. The gambler also
feels in service of an alien power. Chance is a
survival of religion in the modern city . . .
-- Jim Morrison
Both quotes were used, separately, as introductions for two novels by Daniel Keys Moran.
I tend to post quotes and links like that, that's reflective of my damage, I guess. 
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