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The flesh is sad, Alas! and I've read all the books.
Name:
Michelle
Birthdate:
25 January 1985
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(This is mostly friends-only now.)
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Basic Info:
anxiety-laden, introverted, dysthymic, misanthropic, academia and literature-loving, sexual, complicatedly submissive, "delightful," unsure, cynical, jaded, sarcastic, complex, etc. girl (i.e., monogamous hermit). My favorite book is Lolita, which may or may not tell you something about me. I like salty foods more than sweet ones, but chocolate covered pretzels are a tasty compromise. I assume that one day I will become the female version of the archetypal Bitter Old Man, but with plastic surgery. And I'm okay with that. I want to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and have ever since reading Michael Crichton's book Travels. One day.
"When you are troubled about anything, you have forgotten this, that all things happen according to the universal nature; and forgotten this, that a man’s wrongful act is nothing to thee; and further you have forgotten this, that everything which happens, always happened so and will happen so, and now happens so everywhere; forgotten this too, how close is the kinship between a man and the whole human race, for it is a community, not of a little blood or seed, but of intelligence. And you have forgotten this too, that every man’s intelligence is a god, and is an efflux of the deity; and forgotten this, that nothing is a man’s own, but that his child and his body and his very soul came from the deity; forgotten this, that everything is opinion; and lastly you have forgotten that every man lives the present time only, and loses only this."
-Marcus Aurelius; XII 26
(by Julie Heffernan)
My Amazon wishlist.
Basic Info:
anxiety-laden, introverted, dysthymic, misanthropic, academia and literature-loving, sexual, complicatedly submissive, "delightful," unsure, cynical, jaded, sarcastic, complex, etc. girl (i.e., monogamous hermit). My favorite book is Lolita, which may or may not tell you something about me. I like salty foods more than sweet ones, but chocolate covered pretzels are a tasty compromise. I assume that one day I will become the female version of the archetypal Bitter Old Man, but with plastic surgery. And I'm okay with that. I want to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and have ever since reading Michael Crichton's book Travels. One day.
"When you are troubled about anything, you have forgotten this, that all things happen according to the universal nature; and forgotten this, that a man’s wrongful act is nothing to thee; and further you have forgotten this, that everything which happens, always happened so and will happen so, and now happens so everywhere; forgotten this too, how close is the kinship between a man and the whole human race, for it is a community, not of a little blood or seed, but of intelligence. And you have forgotten this too, that every man’s intelligence is a god, and is an efflux of the deity; and forgotten this, that nothing is a man’s own, but that his child and his body and his very soul came from the deity; forgotten this, that everything is opinion; and lastly you have forgotten that every man lives the present time only, and loses only this."
-Marcus Aurelius; XII 26
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