Definitions

Gnostical:  possessing knowledge, esp. esoteric knowledge of spiritual matters.

Turpitude:  vile, shameful, or base character; depravity.

So, then what?  A metaphysical knowledge of depravity?  Of one's own depravity or of the world's?  Of both?

Maybe.

The title for this blog is taken from Nabokov's novel "Invitation to a Beheading," (False Azure was already taken) wherein the main character is charged with the crime of...gnostical turpitude.  What this crime actually constitutes, is left largely to the reader's best estimation.  Perhaps it is the quality of one who has a depraved disregard for matter; or who gives off the impression of a lone, dark obstacle in a world of transparent souls; or who, simply, has a "certain peculiarity." 

It is either one's own disregard for the substance of life, or life's disregard for the substance of oneself - either way, I'm trying to stop disregarding and being disgarded.

I'm not sure what I will do in this space...only that I need to do something...even a virtual something.