The Allure of Despair: A Selection of Poems, Passages & Brief Accounts of Love, Torment and Darkness.

If your interest is Love, Romance, Cosmology, Human Nature, or Classic Literature - this book will be a great read for you. Drawing on writings about lovers, vampires, werewolves, demons, and human nature - quintessential misanthrope Liraz Asmodea, illustrates how despair is not really contrary to our desires, but actually pursued by us - consciously or subconsciously, it is pursued, none the less.Taken from the back of the book:Indicated by its title, The Allure of Despair, is a selection of poems, passages and brief accounts of love, torment and darkness; which includes letters, observations, quotes, and the like from obscure and in some instances, exclusive discoveries, to well known, yet rarely accompanied pieces by people of all the ages; as well as his own. The author attempts to give insight to genuine Despair by giving examples that span the realm of it. Offering writings that are unequivocally sincere in the conveyance of true love, and others that plunge the depths of tortured souls that convey a different type of passion. All in all, this compilation may be appreciated by those who find pleasure in romance, sorrow, and deviation. So thorough is Liraz Asmodea to make his point, he gathered ancient Sumerian discoveries, passages from other ancient texts, Sophocles, Nostradamus, and pagan invocations. Renderings by Jack the Ripper, Bonnie Parker and Sonny Corleone, to name a few. There is even a poem by Adolf Hitler, entitled Mother. Also included in this singular work are poems by some of the finest writers of literature. Liraz Asmodea clearly depicts how so many people embrace and actually desire their own little sanctuary of despair."If you walk through a crowd, or have a conversation with the average person you will hear how eager they are to share their troubles. To expand on their maladies, their hardships. How difficult and overwhelming their life has been - proudly brandishing their red bandages of courage. Some blame others for their lot. Others say the fates are against them. No matter the problem or the purported cause, they all shine in their own complacent spotlight as they depict how close they are to that precipice - the very edge of total despair. Many are already immersed in the self-pity of it."