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Mon Mar 12 2007 at 23:10:05 (17.7 years ago )
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music / bass guitar/ literature / modern art / logic / linguistics, syntax (esp. non-Chomskyan) / illicit drugs /
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University of Oregon
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I like to think I know quite a bit about linguistics and at least something about philosophy. I'm also quite interested and somewhat knowledgeable in the field of art. I like to read and I read everything I can. I am more interested in ideas than literary techniques, though that is not to say that I do not appreciate good writing.

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror.
~ Charles Baudelaire

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
~ Andre Gide

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit from it are the insane.
~Henry Miller

There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Behold," said she. "I am that which MUST EVER SURPASS ITSELF."
~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra