Levitation (The Blind II), 1915 Egon Schiele

“Seriousness is a real virtue for me, one of the few which [I] accept existentially and will emotionally. I love being gay and forgetful, but this only has meaning against the background imperative of seriousness.”

—	Susan Sontag’s early journals, 1/7/58  “––To suffer is the supreme modality of taking the world seriously.” —  Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions