you'll be lost and never found

when they say "the old writer had reached the end of words, the end of
what could be done with words", (http://www.blank.org/memory/) what
are they really talking about? ...

I remember when I used to think Tom Waits's music just sounded like a
soundtrack for slutty calisthenics. Things have gotten better since
then. Or so I'd like to imagine... Mister Tagomi.

"When it came to close down the novel, the I Ching had no more to say.
So, there's no real ending on it. I like to regard it as an open
ending." --PKD

Irony of ironies... losing phantasms. Without proper guidance or
restraint, practitioners were observed to lose touch with reality.
DSM-IV includes the diagnostic category "qi-gong psychotic reaction"
in its "Glossary of culture-bound syndromes". It is described as: "A
term describing an acute, time-limited episode characterized by
disassociative, paranoid or other psychotic or non-psychotic symptoms
that may occur after participation in the Chinese folk
health-enhancing practice of qigong. Especially vulnerable are
individuals who become overly involved in the practice.