The Ambivalent Misanthrope

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About me

Gender Female
Location California, United States
Introduction I still can't read "The Velveteen Rabbit" all the way through without breaking down and bawling.
Interests the alchemy of human imagination, paying attention, the true, the good, the beautiful, Simone Weil, W. R. Bion, silence, presence, the void, empty spaces, vampire myths, American Transcendentalism, writing by hand, caesuras
Favorite Movies The Piano, Fanny and Alexander, The Virgin Spring, The Seventh Seal, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, The Shining, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Baraka, Winged Migration, Last Night, The Unknown, Nosferatu, Memento, Sophie's Choice, Andrey Rublev, Stalker, Mirror, Koyanisqaatsi, The Story of the Weeping Camel, House of Sand, The Fast Runner, Breaking the Waves, The Tree of Life
Favorite Music Philip Glass, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Tori Amos, Billie Holiday, Moby, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Cheb Khaled
Favorite Books One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Painted Bird, Beloved, The House of the Spirits, The Divided Self, Life Against Death, Civilization and its Discontents, The Politics of Experience, Gitanjali, Twelve Moons, The Prophet, On Dreams and Death, Psychic Energy, Waiting for God, On Science Necessity and the Love of God, Gravity and Grace, Seven Servants, The Vagrant Lotus, The Gift, The Subject Tonight Is Love, Sadhana The Realization of Life, Forgotten Truth, The Earth Has a Soul

Well, maybe they don't need them, but don't you think that some fish might like a bicycle?

Yes, it might come in useful to test bait with.