January 2011
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Thoughts on art and war
I have made art the last days, and written awful poetry. Then I listened to Patti Smith’s album Horses, and thought:
I shouldn’t be afraid of making bad art. It might look awful, and a little frightening, but this is what I have instead of guns. This is my instrument of war, and this is what I have instead of machine guns and bombs. I want to fight with my words and my images. And it...
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Improvisations in Stockholm
I want to write something.
I want to write poetry that is funny yet deep, the kind of thing people write on post-it notes and stick to the wall next to their bed.
I want to write wicked sci-fi short stories about monsters from outer space.
I want to write a side-story to a Jane Austen novel, about the Lesbian Couple Austen Forgot To Mention.
I want to write about sex.
I want to learn from...
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“But suppose, however, there were something whose existence has in itself an...”
– Immanuel Kant
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I have read Kant
Immanuel Kant is the only philosopher that I’ve read so far that has defined my idea of freedom and free will. This is what Kant says:
When we seek pleasure we are not acting freely. We act as slaves of our appetites and impulses; I don’t choose my appetites, and when I act to satisfy them, I’m act according to natural necessity. Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
Acting...
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“Poet professor in autumn years
seeks helpmate companion protector friend
young...”
– Personals Ad, Allen Ginsberg (October 8, 1987) Originally published in Cosmopolitan Greetings.
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I'm in school.
I should be writing some stand up comedy (why is theatre even a part of writing school? Writers - at least those I know - are so shy. So, so, so shy) but I’m on tumblr instead. I feel like my teacher is going to look me over the shoulder all the time and be really mad at me. Ugh. My comedy will only be about what a pretentious, intelligent person I am anyways. What a waste to write this...
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger (via loveyourchaos)
“Vengeance of heaven! Oh, how shouldst thou be feared by all, who read what here...”
– Dante, The Divine Comedy, in translation by H. F. Cary
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“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via oceanofmind)
Okay so I don’t like Elizabeth Gilbert at all but I had a soulmate, who died, and all of this is just so… true. No matter whether she writes misogynic books or not.
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Hi.
After a long time as a lurker, I have decided to create a tumblr of my own.