To personify something, serendipity, salvation, and the self as actor and audience

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To bring something to life, we personify it: a car, a penis, or an animal. We see myth when we personify these things, but how blind we are when we personify ourselves and others. The personified item is granted free will and absolute existence, both of which we feel we have. To personify ourselves is to bring ourselves to life, and grant us those characteristics we know we don't have.

Serendipity may be the only useful characteristic to bring about salvation.

We make of others our audience whose inherent selfdom and capricious value systems keep us dancing. Unfortunately the audience we act for are actors themselves, who think we are the audience. If conscience were the acting coach, the casting director would show his face.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.