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07/27/08

“Fling:a Life fanfic”
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A LIFE FANFIC.
Apparently my life is derivative.

Philosophy, etc.

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
G.K. Chesterton, as swiped from Neil Gaiman's Coraline

"If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said, by me. We each have to say it, to say it in our own way. ... Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try."
Madeleine L'Engle

"A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher."
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."
Richard Dawkins

postmen like doctors go from house to house

Writers: Tom Stoppard, Neil Gaiman, Hakuri Murakami, David Mitchell, Ray Bradbury, Susanna Clarke, PG Wodehouse, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Chabon, Terry Pratchett, Diane Duane, James Joyce, Douglas Adams, Anais Nin, Joss Whedon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas
Reading: The Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers
Writing: character sketches and poetry; a micronovel called Joint, a scifi-lite 1860s steampunk that starts on the boardwalks of modern Seaside Heights, New Jersey, and ends in the pine barrens skirting the Jersey devil and the Civil War. Shazam!
Listening: The Decemberists, Beirut, R.E.M., Okkervil River, Fleet Foxes, Beck, Arcade Fire, Iron & Wine, Serge Gainsbourg, Paul Simon, The Smiths, Billie Holiday
Watching: Annie Hall, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, The Philadelphia Story, Flight of the Conchords, Arrested Development, Doctor Who, Life on Mars, Firefly