XCIX
SIT PRO RATIONE VOLUNTAS!

I will reject the truth if the truth destroys
our hope not to die, since this is my port
of salvation on the uncertain path that
I am following. If it takes away

the deceptive illusion that connects us
to our life—an ever-present deception!—
it is better to live a lie that saves us
than to be enlightened and dead.

But how can we go on living, knowing
it is a deception? In the same way that
a herd of pigs flees from the angry sow

who roots in the dirt for her ideal;
because desperation is the foundation
on which hope creates its objective.