My major English essay... Relating to choice of two independant texts -

Susan Hill 'The Woman in Black'

Mary Shelley 'Frankenstein'

Basically just a rant about modern Gothic literature, and quite a biased, slightly pretentious one at that but I wanted to really strengthen and support my argument.

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( Smite me )

[	Mood	|	pensive	]
[	Music	|	The Fall - God Box	]

Ahh....the etheric noises resonating from an army of synthetic, dada jeans scraping up against one another in the foreground. The home slice patrol is paying a visit to the humble Seaford library, be-afroed little heads clearly visible from behind the book stands. Such 'insightful' social comments resonate from their lazilly parting lips, the odd attempt at a 'beat box'. Valuable existance? Two dollar aisle, to put it lightly.

Pointless social commentary aside, I saw the doctor yesterday.. Apparantly I have lost five-seven kilograms within a month. At first I am forced to celebrate this decline in squishiness, yet I wonder about why it's happened. I've been 65 for the last couple of years and now I'm about 59. I haven't changed anything, maybe it's due to all my hard-booted frolics around the city. My blood pressure is about 104, which the nurse assured me was 'exceptional' though my pulse rate was way up...And I was feeling pretty normal. Perhaps I'm just regularly anxious without even realising, thinking...thinking... always thinking, most are wasted thoughts. A cannon ball to the head or two, deport me to Jamaica where they'll introduce me to colour and I'll be cured.

 Romanticism/Realism... I'm always floating somewhere in between the two. The lines can become blurred to the point of madness. Blurred to the point..that it bruises, and ultimately consumes.

This morning I actually found no reason to be leaping out of bed..which I have done so for the last month or so. I just wanted to be alone, foetal if you will. Left to my dreams. I still maintian that if after I die, I want it to be like I am sleeping..dreaming forever outside of my own body, I will be sedated. I will beleive in the things around me, I will not doubt their reality or authenticity because I will not be, as the poet of the Orange Tree put it, 'goaded by the green'...

OH! And before I forget to post it again...

Interview by varjosusi

1. How did you originally find GN?

I can’t quite remember actually, it’s been that long. I’m pretty sure it was linked from some novel ‘goth humour site’ or other. It’s also been some time since I visited there last due to having increasingly less time on my hands for anything other than LJ and MSN. Maybe I should get into the habit of going back, discussions were always at an intelligent or colourful level and people always had a lot to offer in terms of advice and experience.

2. If you could live anywhere in the world, except your current country, where would you choose to live?

Hmm...  tough decision as I don’t think you really know a country until you’ve visited it. From impression alone, I guess I would say Japan, at the moment. The people are so passionate, enthusiastic, imaginative and...mad. I think the culture sits at such a wonderful level between the super modern and traditional; everything appears so profound. I’d possibly feel more at home there than I do in Australia.

3. What is the meaning of life? ;) jk.. if you could change one thing about your past, what would it be?

I would not change a thing about my past, because I think everything and everyone has purpose and intent exactly as planned from the beginning. Everything you are given before should be learnt from, and that knowledge put into practice here and now. There are certainly things I would change now and will in the future, but not ‘then’.

And the meaning of life is a Monty Python movie ^_^

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You look old for your age. Hygiene is just that thing that happens to other Pirates. You like what you like. Taking a cannonball to the head in your younger days hasn't helped. Not one to take risks, you enjoy quiet evenings on your bunk. You're a collector. You like things. Not, "nice" things- just things. Some people think of you as a blight on humanity - a carbuncle on the alabaster skin of man. You think of yourself as a swell guy with lots of friend - just the one, but lots of him. If you weren't a pirate, but rather lived in the 21st Century, you would be the kind of guy who has played a computer game for four days without thinking of showering and living solely on Mountain Dew and Cool Ranch Doritos. What you lack in physical attractiveness you more than make up for in interesting skin conditions. What's the upside of all of this? With the Captain's lifestyle, you are likely to be running the ship in a week or two. Ahead! Warp Factor ONE!