
Book Excerpt #5: And All Eternity Shook
Yes, I have been my mother and I have been my son.
-Deleuze and Guattari
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.

Yes, I have been my mother and I have been my son.
-Deleuze and Guattari
It has been a source of endless bemusement for NBA fans that the league team for Salt Lake City is called the Jazz.
A real-life parable of what it looks like to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

Sometime in the mid-1950s, Edward Abbey—a young social radical and aspiring author from Pennsylvania—took a seasonal job as a park ranger at Arches National Monument (now Arches National Park) in Moab, Utah.

Vacation as Sabbath, because you rarely know when your last time is your last time.
Seeking further light and knowledge from their 2007 album Sky Blue Sky.
Don’t do to me what you did to America…
This song is brilliant, because there really is this malaise associated with the month of July, isn’t there. Because you must now confront the fact that the year is not only half over but past half over.

Mournful ballad from her iconic 1996 album Boys for Pele.
Stand-out track from perhaps the most legendary unfinished album of the 20th century.
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