Manafonistas

Dana Scully: What are you talking about?

Fox Mulder: Some cannibalistic rituals are enacted with the belief that they can prolong life.

Dana Scully: Cannibalism is one thing, but increasing longevity by eating human flesh …

Fox Mulder: Think about it. From vampirism to Catholicism, whether literally or symbolically, the reward for eating flesh is eternal life.

(dialogue taken from „The X-Files“, season 2, penultimate episode, Our Town – recently, the whole „X-Files“ have been remastered, the visual/audio quality of the blu ray-reissues is impressive – one of the great TV-shows of the last decade of the last century has aged with dignity, and grim humour.) 

„I’m so sorry for the ghost that I made you be / Only one of us was real and it was me.“

(Leonard Cohen)

I’ve never been alone
Long enough to know
If I ever was a child

I was tied up like a boat
Unbuttoned like a coat
Set free for a while
Well I jumped to jolt my clumsy blood
While my white, green eyes
Cry like a window pane
Can my cold heart change
Even out of spite?

And I cry like a window pane
Can my cold heart change
Over night?
So I won’t ever want to touch
Your heart too much
Or hold you too tight

I slump behind my brain
A haunted stain will never fade
I hunt for the kind of pain I can take

I never was alone
Long enough to know
If I ever was a child