“One day in February of 1985, I told him I wanted a divorce. The next day he was dead, killed almost instantly when his compact car was hit by a semi truck on a dark stretch of highway.”
“A man who tried to commit suicide by throwing himself onto the tracks of the Mexico City subway was later beaten to death by police”
“In its purer forms lack appears as an ontological guilt or anxiety that becomes almost unbearable because it gnaws on one's very core. For that reason ontological guilt wants to become guilt for something, because we then know how to atone for it; and anxiety is eager to objectify into fear of something, because we have ways to defend ourselves against feared things.”