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User:solitarywalker (718979)
The Reveries
Name:a stray without a god
Bio:I am now alone on earth, no longer having any brother, neighbor, friend, or society other than myself.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let anything except what is coming come
That is the way I always have felt
-Paul Bowles

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.
-Donna Tartt

As a 'self-seer', Schiele had formerly been extraordinarily attuned to his own internal responses, but at times blind to the outside world. In order to make more meaningful contact with others, would the artist have to lose touch with himself?
-Jane Kallir

The whole, impossibly complex goldberg invention of speech, wasted on someone who from the first listened only to that string of molecules governing cowardice.
-Richard Powers

Are there many little boys who think they are a
Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the
Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him
Joyfully
-Anne Carson

Hopefully we have done enough to deserve it.
-Halldór Laxness

...and the more dishevelled they look, the more beautiful I think them.
-Eugène Delacroix

Their faces are now familiar to you. They identify you, recognize you. They do not realise that these simple daily greetings, these mere smiles, these indifferent nods are all that keeps your head above water...
-Georges Perec
Memories::35 entries
Interests:140: violating alphabetical order, alfred ilg, animal shelters, atchei gatu, auto-da-fé, aya takano, bes, black madonna, bones moving under skin, bookbinding, books about rimbaud, bronk's beak, cakesniffing orphans, catalpas, cats kittens and kittie, chan marshall, charles bukowski, co-operative multitasking, consistent (since 1574), counter weights, description, determinism, diamanda galas, egon schiele, ends without means, ethics, félix lajkó, finbar mcbride, firefly, fork bracelets, geographic(al) determinism, getting lost, giovanni battista piranesi, gustav mahler, handwriting, harry crosby, illinois prairie path, infatuation with strangers, introversion, iso 216, jane bowles, janet frame, jean-jacques rousseau, john cowper powys, john fante, junichiro tanizaki, kerguelen, learning about trees, letting myself be insane, long hair, looking out the window, loose-leaf tea, making heidi julavits wait, mapgazing, meaning, mechanomorphism, meerkats, merricat blackwood, monsieur teste, moshing at ska shows, mud between my toes, muffalata, mundane occurrences, mutually dependant arising, my black cashmere overcoat, natural imperfection, niagara niagara, nikita mikhalkov, not knowing her name, oak park, ottawa, ow ow my head, own death, paperbark maples, para noia and chutes, pascal's triangle (in boxes!), paul bowles, paul suttman, peg frampton, people smarter than i am, personification, pinecones, playing with paint, public transit, quiet shyness, rachel's, rain in the sun, raul julia's voice, receipts, recursion, remember that i love you, rome, sahara, sandra newman, scout niblett scout niblett, self-observation 1, sentiment, sharpies, shiva hive, simple honesty, slightly deranged collies, smuggling canadian cat food, smurfs, socrates, sophie calle, soren kierkegaard, spica's secret garden, sputnik sweetheart, starsickness, stephen dixon, stilton colston bassett, strays, stuart ressler, sucking at social interaction, sudo SystemStarter -n -D, sunken eyes, t. g. masaryk, taking the train, talking to animals, tegan and sara, the colossus of maroussi, the neverending story, the smell of sawdust, the straight story, trying to exist, unhappiness day, university of chicago, veljo tormis, very wide elastics, victory cabbage, walking barefoot, wim wenders, wing-stock, wolfgang borchert, wonderfalls, writing on my hand, wyndham lewis, yellow plastic bags, your dandelion paperweight, zines
Schools:University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
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