As Lex would probably say if he were in this situation... Thomas Mann once said, "A writer is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other people ( Read more... )

The greatest parts, without discretion, may be fatal to their owner. Polyphemus, deprived of his eye, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~ David Hume

(  Altville, Part Thirty-Three )

Come sail your ships around me
And burn your bridges down
We make a little history, darling
Every time you come around
~ Nick Cave, 'Ship Song'

(  Altville, Part Thirty-Two )

I couldn't get with the program
And I couldn't listen to them
It was like trying to think in reverse
And I don't want to slide into apathy
And I don't want to die in captivity
But these monsters follow me around
Hunting me down, trying to wipe me out
~ Something For Kate, 'Monsters'

(  Altville, Part Thirty-One )

I know it's been forever since I updated, but, well. I said I'd update regularly, not that I'd kill myself over it. This past week has ben crazy, what with finals, me actually having a date ^_^;;; and also the new HP book coming out. But I haven't given up on Altville and we're almost to some bits that I really, really want to write, so hopefully ( Read more... )

welcome to the freakshow
here we go
~ ani difranco, 'freakshow'

(  Altville, Part Thirty )

And maybe everything is all for nothing
Still you'd better keep it to yourself
'Cause God knows it's not safe with anybody else
~ Aimee Mann, 'It's Not Safe'

(  Altville, Part Twenty-Nine )

Take a litle walk to the edge of town
Go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms,
like a bird of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires,
in the humming wires
Hey man, you know
you're never coming back
~ Nick Cave, 'Red Right Hand'

(  Altville, Part Twenty-Eight )

Say you were split, you were split in fragments
and none of the pieces would talk to you
Wouldn't you want to be who you had been?
Well, baby, I want that too
~ Aimee Mann, 'Humpty Dumpty'

(  Altville, Part Twenty-Seven )

This is for the time that I lost
the death of who I thought I was
the things in which I cannot believe
for fear I'll wear them on my sleeve
things I know that never will be returned
but I crossed that bridge before it burned
~ Aimee Mann, 'I Could Really Hurt You'

(  Altville, Part Twenty-Six )