from Darkness Moves by Henri Michaux

There is haste in me.  There is urgency. *

I would like. I would like anything at all, but fast.  I would like to get out of here.  I would like to be rid of all this.   I would like to start over again.  I would like to leave all this.  Not to leave through an exit.  I would like multiple leaving, a whole spread of them.  An endless leaving, an ideal leaving so that once I've left I begin leaving again right away.

*What would happen if this "accelerator" were administered to slow animals: to the chameleon, to the three-toed sloth or to a marmot just coming out of hibernation?

from Darkness Moves by Henri Michaux, translated by David Ball, from the chapter, Exploring Hallucinogens, p. 199