"Although I long for luminous ecstasies, I wouldn't ask for any, because I know they are followed by great depressions. I would like instead a shower of warm light to fall from me, transfiguring the entire world, an unecstatic burst of light preserving the calm of luminous eternity. Far from the concentrations of ecstasy, it would be all graceful lightness and smiling warmth. The entire world should float in this dream of light, in this transparent and unreal state of delight. Obstacles and matter, form and limits would cease to exist."

E. M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

Léon Spilliaert, “Seascape Seen from Mariakerke” (1909)

Georges Perec, (1975), W or The Memory of Childhood, Translated by David Bellos, David R. Godine Publisher, Boston, MA, 1988