The Listener

The ideas on this page have been compromised. I do often find difficulty in living through these days. Certainly I'm not the first artist to feel like the greatest oddity to walk this land, but I promise that all pain I cause from now on will be my own, not meant for any others... but I know where this flagship is heading.
Of passions I'll first say that in this form they are individual things upon which one focuses his/her passion. And what is passion but to feel intensely about something? Most consider this to be positive, but would there be terms such as "a crime of passion if it were strictly a positive that lead only to positive ends? Bien. Intensity is an extreme. It's much the realm of extremity. All things have degrees. At their lowest they are dull, dim, deceased. As they grow higher they become more et more intense, less dim, less dark, less deceased. But I'll leave these abstract definitions for now and focus on the king abstraction: emotion.
Emotion is most untouchable, but always felt. The world is experienced by humans through these flesh vessels, so anything that does not, in some way, play upon the senses can not register as 'real'; for, it's not felt, not experienced. In this way, death remains a grand abstraction. We perceive an end, but know not what that end feels like to our senses, and in fact if after death our senses stop and continue in no way, death is never real to humans.
Now emotions like light have degrees of intensity. Let's take as our example, anger. Anger at its lowest, its dimmest is slight annoyance. At its highest it is uncontrollable rage. Intensity is a marker, a way of measuring the quality of emotion. Are emotions focused through passion or is passion some subunit of emotion?
Passions are intense feelings. So by all my preceding definitions, passions are simply marks on the uppermost part of the scale of emotion. So passion focused through anger would be close to, or be, uncontrollable rage. But I wish to alter my definition of passion. This being that it's some subunit, some building block of emotion. Than by this view, passions are units on the scale of intensity. Then, when a crime of passion is committed, it is a crime of intense emotion, therefore a crime of intense passion.
A woman comes home to find her husband having sex with her younger sister. She stabs her husband thirty-seven times while her sister flees that woman had passion very earlier on. It was that passion that made her love that man intensely and wholly. She never wanted the focus of her love (an emotion through which passion is focused) to be shared by another woman. So her love was high on the intensity scale of emotion, filled with tons of passion. The violation of her feeling of love caused those passions to be reverted from love to uncontrollable rage...

Book two is a failed project of the poet as a student in Academia. He could never find the energy to finish it, and always felt it was being compromised by the altering of his emotion, so the project was abandoned, but it's presented her to give the reader a bit of insight into the poet.