Excerpt: "...the question this lunation plants at the anaretic degree, in the last, dying hours of the old order, is whether you will price the emerging self at what it's worth, or carry an old valuation into the new epoch, like a coin from a currency that has already been withdrawn from circulation...."

Excerpt: "...The adaptation you reach for under this pressure is so refined it has become invisible to you: you can make the crisis beautiful. You can frame the confrontation in language so exquisitely balanced, so thoughtfully considerate of every perspective, that the urgency drains out of it, and what remains is a perfectly composed still life of a problem that requires the hellish mess of actual resolution. Hence, the elegance has become the evasion..... "

Excerpt: "...The defence you will reach for, the one that has served you since adolescence, is the pre-emptive wound: hurt yourself before the world can, withdraw before you are abandoned, kill the hope before it can disappoint, then call the utter devastation you cause proof that you were right to be cautious. Under this New Moon..."