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| User: | theempathogen (565436)  Love is a Parallax
Lie and love till sharp scythe hacks away our rationed days and weeks. |
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| Name: | 打って付けの麻薬 | ||||
| Bio: | What people are saying about ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} theempathogen:"Keeps it REAL!" - ragermouse"Gay for the UK. Hot." - saymark2"Bloody well rocks!" - aegishjalmur"You rock my face!" - tempest_omouthy"Bridget Jones on acid" - embryomystic"The gift that keeps giving!" - korgmeister"You excite me. You're a fucking star!" - satsu"Someone I can trust. Lives in an Amy Tan novel." - eikitty"One of the most amazing people I've ever met." - beautifatal"Wholly made of the awesome, and arty like whoa." - odontomachus"Eloquent. You tell good stories. You have mad design skillz, yo." - dativesingular"Sometimes I feel like I can't possibly keep up with you... you have such a depth of feeling and intensity I can only marvel at. And so earnest in your passions." - relevantpink"I could never tell you how to feel, what it is you feel, or tell you how to live your life. That's something only you can do, and it would make me not only a meddler, but also a hypocrite, to do such a thing." - auritechThe psychiatrist was a gentle, intelligent man with very clean fingernails. He asked me why I had not sought help sooner. 'I don't need help - not this kind anyway. I can dress myself, make toast, make love, make money, make sense.' 'Why did you steal the bird?' 'I love the stories of Talking Birds, especially Siegfried, who is led out of the forest and into the treasure by the woodbird. Siegfried is stupid enough to listen to birds, and I thought that the peck-peck-pecking at the pane of my life might mean that I should listen, too.' 'You thought the bird was talking to you?' 'Yes, I know the bird was talking to me.' 'Was there no human being you could have talked to instead?' 'I wasn't talking to the bird. The bird was talking to me.' There was a long pause. There are some things that shouldn't be said in company. See above. I tried to put right the damage. 'I went to a therapist once, and she gave me a copy of a book called The Web Not Woven. Frankly, I would rather listen to the bird.' Now I had made things much worse for myself. After the Talking Bird, the nice man at the Tavistock Clinic kept asking me why I stole books and birds, though I had only ever stolen one of each. I told him it was about meaning, and he suggested, very politely, that might be a kind of psychosis. 'You think meaning is psychosis?' 'An obsession with meaning, at the expense of the ordinary shape of life, might be understood as psychosis, yes.' 'I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.' He twiddled his pencil. His nails were very clean. 'I am only asking questions.' 'So am I.' There was a pause. I said, 'How would you define psychosis?' He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil: Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it. - Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping We write from our wounds – our strength is that we write at all. I know that writing is what I should do – the answer to the question, ‘why am I here?’ I know that people often wish they could answer this question, and that I am lucky that I am able to do so. But it is clear to me that even if you do know why you are here and even if you are getting on with it, which is your duty and your right, there are plenty of others who will want to tell you how pointless you are. - Jeanette Winterson Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real. Right now, human beings as a mass, have a gruesome appetite for what they call ‘real’, whether it’s Reality TV or the kind of plodding fiction that only works as low-grade documentary, or at the better end, the factual programmes and biographies and ‘true life’ accounts that occupy the space where imagination used to sit. Such a phenomenon points to a terror of the inner life, of the sublime, of the poetic, of the non-material, of the contemplative. Against all this, a writer such as myself, who believes in the power of story telling for its mythic and not its explanatory qualities, and who believes that language is much more than information, must row against the tide rather like Siegfried rowing against the current of the Rhine. - Jeanette Winterson, Weight "Sometimes I think that I'm from another planet. I bet a lot of people feel like that, too. Like no one will ever know them, and they'll never be able to fit into this screaming horrific bullshit festival. They try and hold on to something, and somehow it all falls out of their grasp, or even worse, it sits out of reach. You can get to feeling displaced, feeling no-placed. I've grown accustomed to feeling alien everywhere I go. It's no big deal. I remember when I used to get off work. I would go eat in the same hamburger place every night. People would always be staring at me, looking at my bald head. At first, it used to trip me out and get me mad, but after awhile I could be in a room full of people staring and I wouldn't even care. You get a strange distance from people that you never get back all the way no matter what happens. Once you've been on the outside, a part of you will always be out there." — Henry Rollins
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| Memories: | 568 entries | ||||
| Pictures: | over 200 public | ||||
| Interests: | 150: absinthe, acting, adding insult to injury, amateur bartending, anarchism, animation, aphex twin, armin van buuren, astronomy, ataraxia, atlanta, autechre, basement jaxx, being in love, bill willingham, björk gudmundsdottir, black books, boba tea, book alteration, booze, british comedy, canada, chainmaille, cheekiness, chicago, chinese mythology, computer geeks, computers, corsets, curve, cybergothic, cynicism, danger mouse, david bowie, dead can dance, deadpan/morbid war humour, delerium, depeche mode, diane diprima, diphthong restoration, diplo, dj keoki, dj krush, documentaries, drum and bass, drunk bowling, dylan moran, electronic music, england, essential mixes, evil nine, evol intent, felix da housecat, ferrets, firearms, fischerspooner, foreign films, frank o'hara, glitter, glowsticking, gothic, grandiose words, green and black's, gregg araki, guy ritchie, hawaii, his dark materials, homosexuality, hybrid, industrial music, inebriation, internationally minded people, j.g. thirlwell, japonisme, jeanette winterson, john digweed, ladytron, languages, linguaphiles, little britain, lj meetups, london, machine gun fellatio, marmite, mashups, montréal, monty python, mysteries, mythology, national public radio, nine inch nails, origami, paganism, pc mods, philip pullman, poetry, polyglots, portishead, poutine, québec, radio 1, recycled art, redemption, robots in disguise, rocky horror, roni size, sarcasm, science fiction, serenity, skinny puppy, sociology, soft ballet, something awful, sparkly sex toys, sushi, sylvia plath, tarot, tea, the 1980s, the bbc, the chemical brothers, the crystal method, the presets, the sugarcubes, the venture bros., theatre, tiếng việt, tramontane things, transnational romance, travelling, urbandecay.com, veuve clicquot, vietnamese francophones, vietnamese french bakeries, warp records, warren ellis, wikipedia, wine, witchcraft, year zero, yorkshire, Émilie simon, はじめの一歩, ヘルシング, 士郎正宗, 彼氏彼女の事情, 攻殻機動隊, 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, 日本, 日本語 | ||||
| Schools: | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Hogsmeade, Scotland - Highland, United Kingdom (1998 - present) | ||||
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| Account type: | Paid Account | ||||
