Free Literature

Found at Montrose L stop in a crate full of books with Vortex cards bandaged to the front. Thanks, Larry da Junkman! The Vortex is a conveniently located book vendor. The prices are low - somewhere around $2, but I recommend bargaining. I prefer to pay less less than or equal to $1.

The first line of the first essay is “Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim.”

It gets better from there!

The famous essay “On Women” compares our loss of beauty after childbirth to the she-ant’s shedding of wings after giving birth, so both can no longer fly. Women are also compared to brutes who are better able to enjoy what pleasure might be had in the present moment.