4 (french) Werber, Bernard

She is always laughing, asking me to get lost in the folds of
her white satin gown. The skeleton mask stares at me
watching my reactions while it shrinks as get better within
my reach.
Now it is more reasonable size, I want to try to snatch. My
hands to soar the edges of the mask. Sharp, they squirt of
my fingers a transparent and sticky blood. Despite my
disgust, I do not release my grip. I draw all my strength.
Behind this mask there is something essential that I need to
find at any price. Behind the mask of the skeleton woman
that attracts me so much? Amandine? Rose? My mother?
Raoul? My death, this I study to compensate for dead I
know not what is missing? An arm rises slowly. Very slowly,
he removes the Mask #:
The mask is almost removed. And I see …
Amazing what’s behind that mask! So unexpected! And yet
so simple …
193 - BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
“Here, monks, holy Truth about removing pain:
The extinction of this thirst is effected by the destruction Full
of desire, by banishing the desire, by renouncing in
delivering it, in leaving him no space.