fear, neurosis, Kafka, and Marshall McLuhan, and thought

Fear is the boundary of the soul, from which heaven is divided.

A man will not lead a life he is not willing to defend.

Fear creates will. Will precludes unity.

Long sentences soften truths.

If a man expects no appreciation for his work he deems it unworthy, and demands it burned at his death. Hence Kafka's willed destruction of his work- from a lack of expected worth. He expected it to blemish, not vivify.

In the end neurosis chooses only to run around and pretend itself sane. Neurosis chooses the neurotic option. Without neurosis, sanity has no shadow.

Futility courts indifference.

Verb substantives give existence to verbs. The sentence structure evolves and tells about itself (the content of form), and about the pre-textual assumed content. The writing about writing becomes the content. The writing takes over the written. The form becomes the content. Marshall McLuhan would no doubt agree.

The prayer inspired by fear, nullifies itself.

Christians remove certain thoughts. Buddhists remove thought itself.

To alter the content is useless without altering the form.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.