Fourth Note to “Laila (Part Two)”

Moreover, beyond the appeasement of the beloved, it’s the exact same as before and an exact repeat of the past, which is to watch Rome and the Great Satan burn and collapse from afar and to watch all of it in a very familiar state of loneliness and isolation. And you’re entitled to be peculiar and stubborn and to burn bridges and alienate with reckless abandonment when your content and work is like this. If anyone else tried to pull it off, they’d be laughed out of the room. It’s an art-form to pull it off. But it’s mainly because of the content and the work.