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Created on 2008-02-25 23:56:57 (#15022833), last updated 2009-07-04
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BioI have been looking at this profile page for a long time, and I’ve never been able to write anything decent. SCREW IT. It is time I wrote SOMETHING.
I’m a 21-year-old woman, born in the US, raised in the UK, living in the US now and planning to move back to the UK Summer 2009. I was never able to fit in with American society, unfortunately, and living abroad has taught me to love anew all things English. I am primarily interested in History, Art and Literature, and I pursue these interests in my spare time as well as academically, but I enjoy reading about almost all conservative academia (the Liberal Arts). I’m not a prude, per se, simply... squeamish in the traditional sense. When pressed, I am liberally inclined. That said, I dislike being pushed.
During the Spring and Autumn I am at University, and during the Summer and Winter I am usually in England or traveling in Europe. I like sightseeing, and always keep a record of the places I visit. When I return to the UK I will probably seek work in Hertfordshire/London (my home territory), and as money will be tight I will have to read about the places I love rather then seeing them.
I do read a bit, mostly non-fiction, mostly history/people related material. My favorite subjects are Mozart (both the man and the music), Walter Sickert, William Gillette and just about the entire Johnsonian Club (though Johnson and Reynolds share the place of favorite). I will also banter quite happily about various religious zealots (Iwant to cuddle like the Puritans a lot - the more gloomy and depressing the better), or Jane Austen, or Disney.
+ Fair-headed, blue-eyed boys get me very weak in the knees.
As most people know, any specific interest can lead the reader in a wide range of different directions, and so I might truly be making some significant omission or another by confining myself to the above selection, but to be brief those are the most important.
One of these days, I will make something of this journal. I once kept a very good journal, public, with friends and a proper format. I have slipped since then, and my internet conduct reflects my real-life conduct, which is reclusive to say the least (and which has likewise changed for the worst). Message me if you want to friend me - I don't get the people who spontaniously friend without introducing themselves.
"... [There were] two sculptors who were rival candidates for a great work which was to be given to the most able artist. They were desired, by those who were appointed to be the judges of their respective merit, to speak upon their art with regard to their intention. After one of them had finished his speech with all the ostentation of eloquence, when it came to his rival's turn to speak, who had not the same gift of elocution, though a better sculptor, he only said, "What that man says I can do."
- Sir Joshua Reynolds; Portraits. Hot air rushing in the face of Canova?
"He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."
- John Milton; Areopagitica. Knowledge, good and evil. Some assemby required. Spines sold seperately.
"I prefer open vice to ambiguous virtue - at least I know where I stand."
- Wolfgang Mozart. Please sod off, United Church of whatevertheHellIsayitis.
"...Michael Wigglesworth, the popular poet and a quintessential neurotic of historical anecdotes, added to his fame by agonizing over whether closing a stable door that was blowing in the wind constituted an act of work that profaned the Sabbath."
- Bruce C. Daniels; Puritans at Play. The path to Heaven is strewn with mole hills.
"This "Fourth of July" is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."
- Frederick Douglass; 1852 Speech. American history yields CONSTANT DELIGHT.
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness."
- Thomas Babington Macaulay; Critical & Historical Essays: Milton. You'd have to be out of your blinkin' mind!
"I went to see Major-General Harrison hung, drawn and quartered. He was looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition."
- Samuel Pepys, The Diary of. Stiff upper-lip chaps!
"O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: 'tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell; you hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder... ...God seems now to be hastily gathering in his elect in all parts of the land; and probably the bigger part of adult persons that ever shall be saved, will be brought in now..."
Jonathan Edwards; Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. So... the bus left in 1741? :(
"That, lying by the violet in the sun,/ Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,/ Corrupt with virtuous season... ...Having waste ground enough,/ Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary/ And pitch our evils there?.. ...What is't I dream on?/ O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,/ With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous/ Is that temptation that doth goad us on/ To sin in loving virtue..."
Angelo; Measure For Measure, by William Shakespeare. Sanctimonious people taste better.
I’m a 21-year-old woman, born in the US, raised in the UK, living in the US now and planning to move back to the UK Summer 2009. I was never able to fit in with American society, unfortunately, and living abroad has taught me to love anew all things English. I am primarily interested in History, Art and Literature, and I pursue these interests in my spare time as well as academically, but I enjoy reading about almost all conservative academia (the Liberal Arts). I’m not a prude, per se, simply... squeamish in the traditional sense. When pressed, I am liberally inclined. That said, I dislike being pushed.
During the Spring and Autumn I am at University, and during the Summer and Winter I am usually in England or traveling in Europe. I like sightseeing, and always keep a record of the places I visit. When I return to the UK I will probably seek work in Hertfordshire/London (my home territory), and as money will be tight I will have to read about the places I love rather then seeing them.
I do read a bit, mostly non-fiction, mostly history/people related material. My favorite subjects are Mozart (both the man and the music), Walter Sickert, William Gillette and just about the entire Johnsonian Club (though Johnson and Reynolds share the place of favorite). I will also banter quite happily about various religious zealots (I
+ Fair-headed, blue-eyed boys get me very weak in the knees.
As most people know, any specific interest can lead the reader in a wide range of different directions, and so I might truly be making some significant omission or another by confining myself to the above selection, but to be brief those are the most important.
One of these days, I will make something of this journal. I once kept a very good journal, public, with friends and a proper format. I have slipped since then, and my internet conduct reflects my real-life conduct, which is reclusive to say the least (and which has likewise changed for the worst). Message me if you want to friend me - I don't get the people who spontaniously friend without introducing themselves.
"... [There were] two sculptors who were rival candidates for a great work which was to be given to the most able artist. They were desired, by those who were appointed to be the judges of their respective merit, to speak upon their art with regard to their intention. After one of them had finished his speech with all the ostentation of eloquence, when it came to his rival's turn to speak, who had not the same gift of elocution, though a better sculptor, he only said, "What that man says I can do."
- Sir Joshua Reynolds; Portraits. Hot air rushing in the face of Canova?
"He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."
- John Milton; Areopagitica. Knowledge, good and evil. Some assemby required. Spines sold seperately.
"I prefer open vice to ambiguous virtue - at least I know where I stand."
- Wolfgang Mozart. Please sod off, United Church of whatevertheHellIsayitis.
"...Michael Wigglesworth, the popular poet and a quintessential neurotic of historical anecdotes, added to his fame by agonizing over whether closing a stable door that was blowing in the wind constituted an act of work that profaned the Sabbath."
- Bruce C. Daniels; Puritans at Play. The path to Heaven is strewn with mole hills.
"This "Fourth of July" is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."
- Frederick Douglass; 1852 Speech. American history yields CONSTANT DELIGHT.
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness."
- Thomas Babington Macaulay; Critical & Historical Essays: Milton. You'd have to be out of your blinkin' mind!
"I went to see Major-General Harrison hung, drawn and quartered. He was looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition."
- Samuel Pepys, The Diary of. Stiff upper-lip chaps!
"O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: 'tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell; you hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder... ...God seems now to be hastily gathering in his elect in all parts of the land; and probably the bigger part of adult persons that ever shall be saved, will be brought in now..."
Jonathan Edwards; Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. So... the bus left in 1741? :(
"That, lying by the violet in the sun,/ Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,/ Corrupt with virtuous season... ...Having waste ground enough,/ Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary/ And pitch our evils there?.. ...What is't I dream on?/ O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,/ With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous/ Is that temptation that doth goad us on/ To sin in loving virtue..."
Angelo; Measure For Measure, by William Shakespeare. Sanctimonious people taste better.
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