Apologia

The purpose of this blog is ... nothing. It is l'art pour l'art, art for art's sake (the variously-attributed motto of The Aesthetic Movement...). Life for life's sake (or, indeed, the philosophy of Aestheticism, Irrationalism...). It is necessary to write oneself. To write oneself into existence (see M. C. Escher - 'Drawing Hands' - 1948). This is the stream-of-consciousness (for non-me stream-of-consciousness, see Virginia Woolf. Without this - there is no consciousness. Without consciousness, there is no life.