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Dorian Gray

I represent to you all the sins that you have never had the courage to commit.

About Me

"Love, he [Socrates] says, is the child of Poverty and Contrivance, deriving something from both his father and his mother. He lacks all things, and has the wit to gain all things. Love too, when touched by beauty, desires to procreate; and if the mortal lover be one whose body alone is creative, he betakes himself to woman and begets children; but if the soul be the chief creative principle in the lover's nature, then he turns to young men of "fair and noble and well-nurtured spirit," and in them begets the immortal progeny of high thoughts and generous emotions. Attracted by what is beautiful, the lover first dedicates himself to one youth in whom beauty is apparent; next he is led to perceive that beauty in all fair forms is a single quality; he then passes to the conviction that intellectual is superior to physical beauty; and so by degrees he attains the vision of a single science, which is the science of beauty everywhere, or the worship of the divine under one of its three main attributes." MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Books:

Currently Reading: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, Lady Chatterly's Lover & St. Mawr & The Man Who Died -all by D.H. Lawrence, Fatal Interview By Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allen Poe, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, all the Harry Potter books, Love in the Time of Cholera & One Hundred Years of Solitude -both by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, T.S. Elliot, Mrs. Dalloway & Orlando & On Being Ill -all by Virginia Woolf, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Exstremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran-Foer, Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Utopia by Thomas More, Pablo Neruda, American Primitive by Mary Oliver, The Hours & A Home at the End of the World -both by Michael Cunningham, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Complete Grimms Fairytales, Slaughter. House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman, Cry to Heaven & Servant of the Bones & Violin & The Vampire Chronicles & New Tales of the Vampires & Lives of the Mayfair Witches -all by Anne Rice, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Frederick Engels, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Animal Farm & 1984 -both by George Orwell, Neil Gaiman, Glue by Irvine Welsh,William Blake, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, etc.

My Blog

Twilight hymns for an ill-treated heart. . .

Twilight hymns for an ill-treated heart.. For who among us shall bear witness? Who will pronounce my saintly fitness? I am, from this day forth, unbound from the sovereign three! For the one called C...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:14:00 PST

frailty & cowardice

as i grow and mature, my clarity with regard to the future and life, in general, is becoming quite crisp. the downside to these sparkling revelations is that for all the truth revealed, for all the li...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:32:00 PST

explosions in the sky

are we all scared? i know i'm terrified.i can't help but wondering what am i truly afraid of...failure.adding yet another unfinished story to my tale.creating a wonderful new regret for me to dwell on...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:30:00 PST

Changeling

This nightly hunt with its empty prey,drowns my mind in more than one way.Logic lost, lessons forgot, as my soul rots.The beast within rages, crazed and wild;while my mind is like a scared child.One b...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:49:00 PST

my great tragedy...

is my inability to overcome a single flaw that has repeatedly beat me down. despite my growing maturity and understanding, with regard to my strengths and weaknesses, i still seem unable to overcome t...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:01:00 PST

red-letters of discontent

this morning i awoke to find myself overwhelmed by all the different failings of my life.  my inability to live within my financial means, my growing distance and lack of loving concern towards m...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:11:00 PST

Tears the Color of Autumn Leaves

The damp night chill following winter's first rain, returns as a distant companion for my wanting heart. Each summer is ripe with hope and foresight, but now I am left within Autumn's icy embrace. Wh...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 07:50:00 PST

a damned Roman Spring...

A damned Roman Spring, become an earnest glamour&   The voice Ive never heard, but have come to cherish, has once again invaded my psyche, on a crusade of understanding. Attempting to reclaim ...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:45:00 PST

Blackberry Winter

~:Blackberry Winter:~   A forsaken mortal, airing the fairy roads, through hallowed gardens and mythic lands; on a telestic wayfaring, of spirit.   Flowers point like satellites, dispatchin...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:44:00 PST

Dire Legacy

Dire Legacy   I cower behind an ill-fated longing. Sitting amid a torrent of bodies, I perceive two of my breed strolling through the masses. My own fateful imperfections notwithstanding, I can...
Posted by Dorian Gray on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:43:00 PST