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alex da duke

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About Me

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
-------------------------- I offer images — I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything — not just wealth. All the bullshit that he's been taught — all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that. why is he dragging me out BRIGHT VERSION

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Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

I'd like to meet:

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act. And, the sad thing is, people get so used to their image--they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And, if you try to remind them, they hate you for it. They feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession." - James Douglas Morrison

Books:

Brave New World, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 1984 Steppen Wolf, Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas. The Iliad, I also like comics like Berserk, Spawn, Wolverine, and BATMAN. My favorite book is Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, anyone who has read it would know why. THE HOLOGHRAPHIC UNIVERSE by Michael Talbot blake, morrison, rico

Heroes:

www.myspace.com/dorkydad http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031505_mckinney_tr anscript.shtml http://www.angelfire.com/band/cure/Wilderness.html http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&f riendID=8045049&blogID=16976289&MyToken=6ab7ea0d-e4f 8-40d1-a1c5-eef04bf61640

My Blog

My Pretty Rose Tree, plus three

My Pretty Rose TreeA flower was offer'd to me,Such a flower as May never bore;But I said 'I've a Pretty Rose-tree.'And I passed the sweet flower o'ver. Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree,To tend her b...
Posted by alex da duke on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:11:00 PST

Drinking Alone by Moonlight

by Li Po     ( Li Bai)
Posted by alex da duke on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:44:00 PST

alone with everybody

the flesh covers the boneand they put a mindin there andsometimes a soul,and the women breakvases against the wallsand the men drink toomuchand nobody finds theonebut they keeplookingcrawling in and o...
Posted by alex da duke on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:46:00 PST

one by HESSE

I can give you nothing that has not already its origins within yourself I can throw open no picture gallery but your own I can help make your own world visible- that is all. --Hesse...
Posted by alex da duke on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:40:00 PST

oh some rumi

The minute I heard my first love storyI started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along.-------------------------------------...
Posted by alex da duke on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:53:00 PST

Were the ZOO

We're the zooAnd in the monkey bars we pretend we're freeI look at me and see you still in a zooI act as if I have somthing better to doI don't, want to help I don't want to hurtI hurl my words a...
Posted by alex da duke on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:38:00 PST

trapped

don't undress my loveyou might find a mannequin;don't undress my mannequinyou might findmy love. she's long agoforgotten me. she's trying on a newhatand looks more thecoquettethan ever. she is achilda...
Posted by alex da duke on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:19:00 PST

Nurse's Song

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still Then come home my children, the sun is gone downAnd...
Posted by alex da duke on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:02:00 PST

Gestalt Prayer

I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, And if by chance we find ea...
Posted by alex da duke on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:09:00 PST

you

I dropped by to see youlate last nightBut you were outlike a lightYour head was on the floor& rats played pool w/ your eyesDeath is a good disguisefor late at nightWrapping all its games in its ca...
Posted by alex da duke on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:00:00 PST