Catharsis?

Soundtrack: "The Noose", a Perfect Circle


«There are no more barriers to cross.
All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed.
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone; in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling.
This confession has meant nothing.»

Bret Easton Ellis, "American Psycho"

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Se potete guardatevi il film...
Io adoro Christian Bale.

«Jess Crichton, this is your life...

Soundtrack: "Hello", Blackfield


...and here are some people from Nantwich to talk about you.
I once asked Dad what he'd do if he wasn't working in politics, and he said he'd be working in politics, and what he meant, I think, is that wherever he was in the world, whatever job he was doing, he'd still find a way back, in the way that cats are supposed to be able to find a way back when they move house. He'd be on the local council, or he'd give out pamphlets, or something. Anything that was part of that world, he'd do. He was a little sad when he said it; he told me it was, in the end, a failure of immagination.
And that's me: I suffer from a failure of immagination. I could do what I wanted, every day of my life, and what I want to do, apparently, is to get walloped out of my head and pick fights.
Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants.
Try it, and see what happens.»

Nick Hornby, "A Long Way Down"