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About me

Gender Female
Industry Technology
Occupation Editor
Location Japan
Introduction A Warning to the Curious: Herein, you may find discussion of books, 80's music, life in Japan, weird reminiscing (mostly about ghostly events). If this appeals to you, please stick around.
Interests abandoned places, Absurdism, Algernon Blackwood, anthropology, astronomy, BPAL, Brontes, Chinese painting, daydreams, divination, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, embroidery, existentialism, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fauvism, Forteana, ghost stories, Giorgio de Chirico, gothic literature, H.P. Lovecraft, hauntings, Herman Melville, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Japan, knitting, koi, linguistics, M.R. James, Magritte, millinery, Moby Dick, Morrissey, museum studies, Okinawa, old souls, overgrown gardens, perfume, Peter Murphy, pickles, poetry, pompadours, pretensions, Rene Magritte, science fiction, Shakespeare, socks, St. Scholastica, surrealism, symbolism, Taiwan, tarot, the age of sail, tea, twitter, umbrellas, unrequited love, upstate new york, vintage hair, violets, weird fiction, Wilkie Collins, William Hope Hodgson, writing letters, zen
Favorite Movies Repo Man, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Enter the Dragon, Ghost World, Incubus, The Ninth Gate, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko
Favorite Music The Smiths, The Chameleons, Bauhaus, Man or Astroman?, The Magnetic Fields, The Misfits, The Damned, The Cramps, Squires of the Subterrain, The Cure
Favorite Books Moby Dick, Notes From the Underground, The House on the Borderland, Madame Bovary, I Capture the Castle, The Gormenghast Novels, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, Uncle Silas, The Martian Chronicles, An American Tragedy, The Pillow Book of Sei-Shonagon, The Makioka Sisters, Where the Lilies Bloom, Watership Down, The Prince, Beneath the Wheel

You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?

I vant to be alone.