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Deconstructor
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There is something profoundly dissatisfying about traveling. I began to travel only because nothing else made sense. I found nothing worth doing. I had a job and a girlfriend and every morning I asked, "So now what?" I couldn't see a satisfactory future. I couldn�t see a future. I think there is a distant place in my head that I want to reach, even though I'm perfectly aware of the fact that I will never reach it. Once out there in the world I never once felt that I was close to that place; I felt that I was actually the closest to it when home from where that place might as well be eternity away. I guess we�re all looking for a place to belong and if we could find it, we will never leave again.
"The battle is never won", he said, "it's not even fought".
---------------------------------------------William Faulkner
---------------------------------------------The Sound and the Fury
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Guy Courchesne
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Location: Mexico City
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Beautiful Decon, you romantic you.
I've always thought that place we are looking for is found inside, through security of self, confidence, all that jazz. Physical location for me matters less than that. |
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Deconstructor
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
Beautiful Decon, you romantic you.
I've always thought that place we are looking for is found inside, through security of self, confidence, all that jazz. Physical location for me matters less than that. |
I agree with you.
I believed that to find confidence, etc. couldn't be achieved unless one did something worth doing and I could never find anything worth doing.
Me, Romantic? Yeah... you're right unfortunately.
Did you know that I actually taught that crap (Romanticism) when I was a TA at the old university? Of course as a TA I was supposed to only do research for this professor who was a major pothead. In fact, we used to smoke and drink together after class. This guy, however, did much more; he was into some heavy stuff. As a result, I would often end up teaching his classes like 18th century Romanticism and Victorianism. I had a totally different twist as to how all that garbage came about, so whenever the old prof felt well enough to attend his own classes, afterwards he would get pissed at me because Ss would tell him, "That's not what the other guy told us. He said that Romantic writers were bunch of do-nothings who did opium, wanted to reinvent God and sleep with their sisters". 
God, I loved getting his goat!
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Guy Courchesne
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hahaha
You need to send me your CV. I'd like to show it to all the Newbies that come through. |
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