Imaginative, dull, amiable.
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Quietly somewhat funny.
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View profile →I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
Mostly the pain. I don’t want to be trapped in a body that hurts.
I’ve never read Proust.
As someone who left the world slightly more interesting than he found it.
The idiocy of going to Skye from New Zealand in April 2020. All of a sudden, I’m turning on the news and hearing myself as an item. I have never been more mortified.
And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.
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