after listening to the 12 hour youtube video of mark's memoirs of his life, which is mostly a never ending battle with severe drug addiction, i can confidently say the "she" who is wearing the halo of ashes is either drugs, or the self-destructive life....but seeing how intensely he was addicted to drugs, i would say it's drugs. he's comparing the fleeting pleasure of drugs to an angel tempting him, but her halo is ashes, not something actually glorious....ashes obviously represent death....drugs are his angel of death.
after listening to the 12 hour youtube video of mark's memoirs of his life, which is mostly a never ending battle with severe drug addiction, i can confidently say the "she" who is wearing the halo of ashes is either drugs, or the self-destructive life....but seeing how intensely he was addicted to drugs, i would say it's drugs. he's comparing the fleeting pleasure of drugs to an angel tempting him, but her halo is ashes, not something actually glorious....ashes obviously represent death....drugs are his angel of death.