"Abandoned to the whims of others, we must wander daily through the wish to be loved and the fear of rejection before we can be productive. Categorized 'good' or 'bad' from birth ... we become so enmeshed with the tenuous threads of approval / disapproval that we are creatively paralyzed. ... Having thus to look to others to tell us where we are ( Read more... )

This morning, for the first time in a long time, I did a divination from a random passage from a randomly-chosen book.

The book was Dodie Bellamy's Pink Steam, and the passage was this:

"William Burroughs was timid and thin as a young boy, he was in his 70s and Mark in his teens and it felt like two boys in bed, I'm going over to his place this ( Read more... )