short history of decay

Contents
1. Directions for Decomposition
	Genealogy of Fanaticism
	The Anti-Prophet
	In the Graveyard of Definitions
	Civilization and Frivolity
	Dissolving into God
	Variations on Death
	In the Margin of Moments
	Dislocation of Time
	Magnificent Futility
	Exegesis of Failure
	Coalition against Death
	Supremacy of the Adjective
	The Devil Reassured
	Promenade around the Circumference
	The Sundays of Life
	Resignation
	The Indirect Animal
	The Key to Our Endurance
	Annihilation by Deliverance
	The Abstract Venom
	The Consciousness of Misery
	Interjective Thought
	Apotheosis of the Vague
	Solitude - Schism of the Heart
	Twilight Thinkers
	Resources of Self-Destruction
	The Reactionary Angels
	The Concern for Decency
	Gamut of the Void
	Certain Mornings
	Militant Mourning
	Immunity to Renunciation
	The World's Equilibrium
	Farewell to Philosophy
	From Saint to Cynic
	Return to the Elements
	Subterfuges
	Non-Resistance to Night
	Turning a Cold Shoulder to Time
	Two-Faced Freedom
	Overworked by Dreams
	The Model Traitor
	In One of the Earth's Attics
	Indefinite Horror
	Unconscious Dogmas
	Duality
	The Renegade
	Shades of the Future
	The Flower of Fixed Ideas
	The 'Celestial Dog'
	Ambiguity of Genius
	Idolatry of Disaster
	The Demon
	The Mockery of a 'New Life'
	Triple Impasse
	Cosmogony of Desire
	Interpretation of Actions
	Life without Objective
	Acedia
	Crimes of Courage and Fear
	Disintoxication
	Itinerary of Hate
	'La Perduta Gente'
	History and Language
	Philosophy and Prostitution
	Obsession of the Essential
	Felicity of Epigones
	Ultimate Audacity
	Effigy of the Failure
	Conditions of Tragedy
	The Immanent Lie
	The Coming of Consciousness
	The Arrogance of Prayer
	Lypemania
	Everyday Curse
	Defense of Corruption
	The Obsolete Universe
	Decrepit Man
2. The Second-Hand Thinker
	The Second-Hand Thinker
	Advantages of Debility
	The Parasite of Poets
	Tribulations of an Alien
	Ennui of Conquerors
	Music and Skepticism
	The Automaton
	On Melancholy
	The Thirst for Power
	Position of the Poor
3. Faces of Decadence
4. Sanctity and the Grimaces of
the Absolute
	The Refusal to Procreate
	The Aesthete Hagiographer
	The Disciple of Certain Saints
	Wisdom and Sanctity
	Woman and the Absolute
	Spain
	Hysteria of Eternity
	Stages of Pride
	Heaven and Hygiene
	On Certain Solitudes
	Oscillation
	Threat of Sanctity
	The Tilting Cross
	Theology
	The Metaphysical Animal
	Genesis of Melancholy
	Divagations in a Monastery
	Exercise of Insubmission
5. The Decor of Knowledge
6. Abdications
	The Rope
	Underside of an Obsession
	Epitaph
	Secularization of Tears
	Fluctuations of the Will
	Theory of Goodness
	Making Allowances
	Wonders of Vice
	The Corrupter
	The Architect of the Caves
	Discipline of Atony
	Supreme Erosion
	At the Obsequies of Desire
	Irrefutable Disappointment
	In the Secret of Moralists
	Monastic Fantasy
	In Honor of Madness
	My Heroes
	The Simple-Minded
	Poverty: Mental Stimulant
	Invocation to Insomnia
	Profile of the Wicked Man
	Views on Tolerance
	Sartorial Philosophy
	Among the Dregs
	On an Entrepreneur of Ideas
	Truths of Temperament
	Flayed Alive
	Incompatibilities
	Restoration of a Cult
	We Troglodytes
	Physiognomy of a Failure
	Procession of Sub-Men
	Quousque Eadem?