PREFACE

PrefaceTo renounce life and its joys or dive into its passions fires be the acetic and ludicrous fool or be the sensuous be the dull-witted dope be it be the acetic tranquil in renunciations embrace or the sensualist tranquil after love in the arms of she
Ast sayeth “..indifferent to his mistress detachments his joy- tranquil the ash-smeared hermit sleep in ease like a king”
But
Ast sayeth
“The punishment for laughing at
the external world is to fall in the first snare laid
by the innocent Maia”
But
Ast sayeth
“…men who perceive
The tangled net of ruin which passion casts…