Standard Occidental Modes
The ideal dream is to loose the mass of material, achieve formlessness and inflate endlessly in value. This is the relentless Valhalla of the infected with abstract.
Romantic victims are enveloped with the sensation of their world and try to hold fast, their fingers wrapped around things, pointlessly, blood leaking from meat rubbed raw as they are torn about by the actions of nature.
The known sadness comes from the relentless failure of the abstracts and the grotesque success and predictable future failure of the romantics.
Crocolips