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Honestly, I was expecting to come up as Grendel here...especially after reading the John Gardner novel in AP English Lit...man, did I have some obvious issues back then...
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You scored as Beowulf. Heroic, strong, and maybe a little on the proud side--not that you don't have a reason to be. After all, you defeat THREE major evils that ravage the countryside as well as many minor beasties that get in the way before you're done in. You simply don't give up. Without you, Hrothgar's Golden Hall would still stand empty.
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I'm not sure why I now have an urge to suddenly get into quoting this past week's "The Current Cinema" article in The New Yorker....it's not me after all (especially seeing as I haven't yet taken the virtual role--must check and see if it's still open at the After Celebrity site)--maybe I just have to disparage my "hero of the story" qualifications at every turn, even though of course everyone wants to be their own life's hero. It's a neurotic overcompensation thing, that I feel I can't dare proclaim myself Prince Charming, even though I can talk the talk, walk the walk, write the saga, kill the dragon and kiss the sleeping princess awake. And sing "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"...
Must stop disappointing and being disappointed in self. That's my belated New Year's resolution--but hey, I'm early for the Year of the Rooster. Year of the Monkey's been rather a mixed and troublesome barrel, I must say...but hell, I found and found out who and what I needed to. That's a reward, to get so much farther along, so much deeper inside the puzzle-box that's my own strange familiar self. Reference the King of Cups in the Mythic Tarot deck...having moved away from the Queen of Swords. Orpheus--Jean Marais--La belle et la bete--lycanthropy--dogs lunging and snapping at me in dreams of a distant and hyper-conscious childhood...something like that.
Pay no attention to the train of thought behind the curtain...
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It's back to study-hall for me... :-p
I don't wear a black leather jacket or smoke behind the building (yet), though.
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My mother just sighs and lets me do my thing...my life since starting college has just been laced with reciprocal bad influences, if you want to put it that way.
I do wonder, though, why my friends are always so eager to say they're the ones who corrupted me...does everyone think that they're my personal Lord Henry? I mean, from my own perspective I've always been totally twisted--I just keep getting new ideas on how to apply it.
>:).......
*wears black faux leather or denim jacket, burns incense, and you don't want to know what I've done behind buildings....*
Okay, well maybe you do...
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Unless you've got a pretty rare kind of multiple personality disorder, that is....but no, a separate body is good, and a kindred consciousness with it even better. Let's just all join in mutual bonds of corruption, k?
>:)