I found this today during a search for my high school diaries and journals (hoping to participate in a "Get Mortified" event, but more on that aspiration later.....) yep, and I found this little scribbled note that I copied out of The Doomsday Dictionary, probably whilst I was listening to the Smiths or something:
"Thanatos (also, death instinct)-- One of two primal instincts attributed to man, the other being Eros. The function of Thanatos is to restore higher organic organization to a simpler, pre-vital state. In this, Thanatos is expressing a tendency evident elsewhere in nature for organization to run down into a greater simplicity.
The laws that regulate the compromise are obscure."

I think I left something out of the full entry, but this is all that I selected. I still love the final sentence: "The laws that regulate the compromise are obscure."

This is my attempt at some postcard art for this swap thing----my first ever attempt at participating in a bit of blogosphere hoo-haw---actually, I have already sent out most of the "art" attempts (look, I just like mail)....harumph. I am not great in the realm of visual art. Just like the time when this fancy Theatre de la Jeune Lune director once scolded me, "Aiiyee! Noooo! You are pure comedy!!" when I was suposed to be doing an exercise in high drama for a theater full of acting students, well, again I feel that "I've failed!" feeling. Of course now, years later, I am happy to at least have been pure comedy for one fleeting moment in my life, even if it wasn't at the appropriate moment...so maybe I will feel some sort of satisfaction later at having attempted to participate in an online swap of mail. Still, I sort of feel as if I am a lonely ol' friendless spinster who has to sign up on blog posts just to get any mail at all.....oh, what a maelstrom of emotion am I this rainy Monday! But I can't help it---je suis pur comedie!(opps on the spelling?)