An abrupt question: Was Trakl a Christian? Yes, of course, at times he becomes Christian, among a general confusion of becomings – becoming an animal, becoming a virus, becoming inorganic – just as he was also an anti-christ, a poet, a pharmacist, an alcoholic, a drug addict, a psychotic, a leper, a suicide, an incestous cannibal, a necrophiliac, a rodent, a vampire, and a werewolf. Just as he became his sister, and also a hermaphrodite. 

Trakl's texts are scrawled over by redemptionist monotheism, just as they are sustained by narcotic fluidities, gnawed by rats, cratered by Russian artillery, charred and pitted by astronomical debris. Trakl was a Christian and an atheist and also a Satanist, when he wasn't simply undead, or in some other way inhuman. 

It is perhaps more precise to say that Trakl never existed, except as a battlefield, a resevoir of disease, the graveyard of a deconsecrated church, as something expiring from a massive cocaine overdose on the floor of a military hospital, cheated of lucidity by the searing onslaught of base difference. 

from Nick Land's Fanged Noumena