She was Desdemona one night, and Ophelia the other; if she died as Juliet, she came to life as Imogen

"To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away."

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My favorite diaries:

intheory27    profile - diary

comments:  Movements between hope and helplessness in the tradition of Tennyson

evolver    profile - diary

comments:  A tinge of the pent-up liberalism of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My favorite music:

The Beatles

comments:  "Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither wildly as they slip away across the universe."

Radiohead

comments:  "Wake from your sleep, the drying of your tears. Today, we escape, we escape."

The Good Life

comments:  "I know a girl with cuts on her legs. I think that she hates the way she was made."

AFI

comments:  "Your sins into me, oh, my beautiful one. Your sins into me."

Bob Dylan

comments:  "You fake just like a woman. You make love just like a woman. Then you ache just like a woman. But you break just like a little girl."

My favorite movies:

New faves -- Capturing the Friedmans, Donnie Darko

Old faves -- American Beauty, The Hours

Kill Bill I and II

The Godfather I and II

HP I-IV, LotR I-III

My favorite authors:

Vladimir Nabokov

comments:  "Look at this tangle of thorns."

John Fowles

comments:  "And then there was the bit in the local paper about the scholarship she had won, and her name as beautiful as herself: Miranda."

Jack Kerouac

comments:  "The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss."

Life-changing texts

comments:  Le Morte Darthur, The Crying of Lot 49, The Great War and Modern Memory, Sartor Resartus, House of Leaves, Under the Net, Possession, Mrs. Dalloway, the literary theory of Baudrillard, Derrida, and Hayden White

THE poets

comments:  Eliot, Wordsworth, Swinburne, Plath, Ginsberg, Hardy, Simic, Tennyson, Ai, Li-Young Lee, Robinson, Masters, Keats, Piatt

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