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| User: | pierrot_doll (13420533) while stars crashed &the rusalka sang;
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| Name: | pierrot_doll | ||||
| Website: | orchidveil.net | ||||
| Location: | Australia | ||||
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| Bio: | formerly lilimist.livejournal.com Go down into hell, if you must, but bring me back a rose... Words and gatherings of star-stuff & things by Vixen Phillips, AKA lilimist, an Australian-born writer of original dark romantic & dark literary fiction. My stories focus on people making fragile connections to one another, sharing worlds, and, in moments of beautiful self-destruction, breaking free of whatever cages contain them.... Apart from this, personal whispers, fragments of dreams, updates for orchidveil.net and only Time knows what else will find their way into these folds... Friends are always welcome...  her wings are not broken, only icarus-singed... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Journal design by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} premade_ljs.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lilimist. Not for Everyone. The Slogan Generator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand--a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods--or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values." (Willa Cather) "If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will always write. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you." (Henry Rollins) "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." (Anais Nin) "The writer suffering writer's block can think of good plots and characters, or anyway he can think of good starts, which is all a healthy writer needs, but he can't persuade himself that they're worth writing down or developing. It's all been done before, he tells himself. And if he does, by a supreme effort, get down a few sentences, he finds the sentences disgustingly bad. In effect, a Platonic dream of what fiction ought to be has thrown its dark shadow not only over the actual rough draft the writer has begun, poisoning the writer's eye and robbing him of the strength it takes to transform the crude rough draft into a polished work of art, but over the very possibility of creating art." (John Gardner) "The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable." (Robert Henri) "It is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty." (Don Marquis) "Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you." (Rilke) "The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates,the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply." (Baudelaire) "In the day we are social creatures, but at night we descend to the dream world where nature reigns, where there is no law but sex, cruelty, and metamorphosis. Day itself is invaded by daemonic night. Moment by moment, night flickers in the imagination, in eroticism, subverting our strivings for virtue and order, giving an uncanny aura to objects and persons, revealed to us through the eyes of the artist." (Camille Paglia) “I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.” (Henry Rollins) "I'm not impressed by art because it's political, I believe in art being good art or bad art, not relevant art or irrelevant art. The plain truth is that if you are angered or disgusted by a particular injustice or immorality, and you want to do something about it, now, at once, then you can hardly do worse than write a play about it. That's what art is bad at. But the less plain truth is that without the play and plays like it, without artists, the injustice will never be eradicated." (Tom Stoppard) "In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. Thanks to them, the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is very important. When power feels itself totally justified and approved, it immediately destroys whatever freedoms we have left, and that is fascism." (Luis Buñuel) "I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other." (Kathy Acker) "There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do." (Anais Nin) "In the light universe, I have been darkness. Perhaps in the dark zone I will be light." (Kai/Lexx) "All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...at least for now..." (Chrono Trigger/Square-Enix) | ||||
| Memories: | 49 entries | ||||
| Interests: | 113: absinthe, alienation, art, autumn, beautiful self destruction, bisexuality, changelings, charlie and lola, cyberpunk, dark fae, dark fiction, dark romanticism, darkfic, darkwave, david bowie, diy media, diy publishing, doctor who, doctor/master, drabbles, dreams, e.r. eddison, editing, elegant gothic lolita, erotic fiction, faerytales, fallen angels, femmeslash, femslash, ferns, fiction, forbidden love, freedom of speech, george macdonald, gnosticism, homoerotic fiction, hypertext fiction, independent publishing, insanity, interactive fiction, lexx, life on mars, lilies, literature, lost, lost violet press, madness, malice mizer, master/doctor, melancholia, melbourne, mermaids, mist, my white rose, mythology, naiads, neon genesis evangelion, new media, new romantics, night, nightmares, novel writing, occult, odin, ophelia, orchids, orchidveil, original fiction, poetic fiction, pre-raphaelites, programming, prose poems, prose poetry, publishing, quantum computing, quantum physics, rapunzel, ravens, rebirth, romanticism, rusalka, sadness, sea shells, shapeshifting, slash, small press publishing, solitude, sorrow, speculative fiction, spirit of place, steampunk, stream of consciousness writing, streams of consciousness, swan maidens, the dreaming sea, the muse, theta/koschei, time anomalies, time lords, time travel, trapdoor, truth, twilight, victorian era, web design, western victoria, wildlings, winged things, winter, wolves, world creation, writing, zines | ||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 30: _haywire_, astral_fighter, breaksinmusic, chilayse, chocodash, choronzon333, desdemonhu, dreamhunter, eris_alecto, eryaforsthye, helenix, ithinkstoomuch, karollynn, ki_zu_na, lightedpalace, lilacviolingirl, lilimist, moirarogers, muse, nin_harris, novelog, originalpuck, pierrot_doll, reneekytokorpi, rjsinister, silentawake, slytherin_rose, visualcomplex, xguhx, xxpopoutxx | ||||
| Account type: | Basic Account | ||||
