This Yeasty Darkness

Happy thought for the new year. This is from an article called “Unreason’s Seductive Charms”. It’s a quote from Rebecca West (not sure I remember who she is).

Only part of us is sane. Only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our 90’s and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set life back to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations. Our bright natures fight in us with this yeasty darkness, and neither part is commonly quite victorious, for we are divided against ourselves…

whew. And some more than others.