A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.