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About Me

I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.

My Interests

Reading, watching movies, listening to music, living in foreign countries, learning new languages badly, hanging out with friends, smoking camel lights, trying to find my way in the world, thinking....

Music:

"Classical" music, Jazz and anything that sounds interesting.

Books:

Anna Karenina & War and Peace, 100 Years of Solitude, East of Eden, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry (by Jeanette Winterson), Of Human Bondage (W Somerset Maugham), A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson), A Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela's Autobiography, The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri), all of JD Salinger's works, Fear of Flying (Erica Jong), Kurt Vonnegut, Gore Vidal, Herman Hesse (Demian and Narcissus & Goldmund), Germinal (Zola), The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)...etc...

Heroes:

Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Jeanette Winterson("In this life you have to be your own hero..."), Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Liony, Albert Einstein, Johannes Brahms, Tolstoy, Nelson Mandela

My Blog

Sylvia and the rest of us women.

" I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a campion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shurnk to a little gold cup on his man...
Posted by Margaret on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Words

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less. The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so m...
Posted by Margaret on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST