Dawn
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Philadelphia, PA, United States |
| Introduction | Wandering, inconsistent, in a state of flux: the world as contradiction. This is Fleeting, a blog of my current interests, documenting glacial shifts in intellectual, emotional, artistic, and literary discoveries. In Thoreau's words, this is a "meteorological journal of the mind." |
| Interests | art, poetry, philosophy, literature, tulips, nature, animals, history, etymology, mythology, science, film, fairy tales, allegories, feminism, LGBT interests, vintage erotica, love, politics, lolita complexes, writing letters, post-structuralism, ethics, NPR, aporia (as both a genus of butterflies and as a rhetorical pause to express uncertainty, doubt, hesitancy, wonder, and/or amazement before contradiction, paradox, or gaps in logic), overwhelming tension, metaphors, tea, winter, folklore, discourse |
| Favorite movies | The Lion in the Winter, Run Lola Run, Fur, Jules et Jim, Sunset Boulevard, Notes on a Scandal, anything by David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, and Luis Bunuel. |
| Favorite music | Joanna Newsom, Django Reinhardt, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, The Scarring Party, Chopin, Debussy, Berlioz, Elliott Smith, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, The Beatles, Blondie, Sufjan Stevens, Neko Case, Edith Piaf, Radiohead, Of Montreal, Tool, Beck, Animal Collective, Bjork, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Satie, Gogol Bordello, Final Fantasy, Ratatat, Tom Waits, mashups from The Hood Internet, Al Green, Jay-Z, 50's pop, vaudeville, consciously absurd pop, end-timey music. |
| Favorite books | Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Kierkegaard, Djuna Barnes, Tory Dent, Catherynne M. Valente, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Nietzsche, Wislawa Szymborska, Jeanette Winterson, Georges Bataille, Pessoa, Rumi, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter, Anne Carson, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley |