Skip to main content  When have YOU experienced Stendhal
syndrome?  Or rather, to what piece of art or music?  I must
stress that this is not meant as "what's your favorite
song/painting?" I totally associated with the description our
dear friend Tuffy the DT dug up from numerous texts, as well as
Chuck's own depiction of it in [I]Diary[/I] .  When have you
felt like your entire existence was swallowed by something you
either looked into or listened to? How, exactly did you feel it
happen?  For me, it was hearing godspeed you black! emperor's
F#A#(infinity symbol) the first time. For approx. sixty minutes,
I simply sat, with my palms sweating, while vivid imagery filled
my consciousness. It was like living poetry, channeled into my
head through sound. Right? lol.  And as for art, either seeing
Jackson Pollock's [I]Number One (Lavender Mist) [/I] in the
National Gallery of Art, or looking through Crowley's Thoth
tarot for the first time. Both instances left me speechless,
dizzy, euphoric, and dissociated.  You