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Tait McKenzie Johnson



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Tait McKenzie Johnson

goodreads author profile


born
October 06, 1980

gender
male

place of birth
Washington D.C., The United States

website

genre
Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Poetry

influences
Rilke, Mallarme,Sartre, Felisberto Hernandez, Bruno Schulz, Pynchon

member since
May 2008


about this author

In order to free himself from time, Tait fled the ruins of D(ead) C(ity) to the greener ruins of Pittsburgh, PA, where he moonlit as an anarchist organizer, rock and classical musician, fairy wing maker, amateur existentialist, circus contortionist, urban shaman, bumrush poet, dream journalist, vegetarian cook, mythologist, and hopeful romantic, sometimes all at the same moment. He currently attends the University of Pittsburgh in order to hone his writing skills and geek out over literature and religious phenomena.




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avg rating: 4.50 | 4 ratings | 0 reviews | 3 distinct works | 1 fan
Invisible Neighborhoods Invisible Neighborhoods
by Tait McKenzie Johnson (Goodreads author)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2005
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From Beneath the Bumrush: A Co... From Beneath the Bumrush: A Collection of Voices That Demand to Be Heard
by Tait McKenzie Johnson (Goodreads author), John Thomas Menesini, S. Cannon
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2006
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All Tonight's Adventures All Tonight's Adventures
by Tait McKenzie Johnson (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2006
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The Flashing Future (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
10 chapters   —   updated May 15, 2009 03:18PM
description: A continuing series of speculative and sci-fi flash fictions attempting to intersect current issues, futuristic scenarios, and the confrontation of man with Total Reality
Beast In The Eye Of (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 02, 2009 09:16AM
description: Published in The Original Magazine Fiction Supplement A dark tale about the creation of a modern day golem, and the angelic attention it attracts. (Spring '08, short story)
In the Moment (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 02, 2009 09:15AM
description: An absurdist tour diary in which a book of censored songs leads to the end of the known world (spring 09, unpublished)
The Eyeless Prison (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 25, 2008 06:44PM
description: In which "The Last 20 Moments" is re-envisioned as a historical romance about international art thieves during World War II (Fall '08, short story, unpublished)
Last 20 Moments (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 18, 2008 06:29PM
description: Some Beckettian flash in a timeless room. ( Fall '08, an assignment for fiction class)
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Rainbows End 11/07 Tait gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Rainbows End (Mass Market Paperback)
by Vernor Vinge
bookshelves: culture-theory, currently-reading, literature, school, sci-fi
my rating:
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read in November, 2009
Chuang Tzu: Basic Wr... 11/07 Tait gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (Paperback)
by Chuang Tzu
bookshelves: currently-reading, east-asian, school, spiritual-occult
my rating:
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Tao Te Ching: A New... 11/01 Tait is currently reading:
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)
by Stephen Mitchell
bookshelves: currently-reading, east-asian, philosophy, poetry, school, spiritual-occult
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November 07
Rainbows End Tait gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Rainbows End (Mass Market Paperback)
by Vernor Vinge
my rating:
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read in November, 2009
Chuang Tzu: Basic Wr... Tait gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (Paperback)
by Chuang Tzu
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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November 01
Everything Is Illumi... Tait marked as to-read:
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jonathan Safran Foer
my rating:
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Memoirs of a Shy Por... Tait marked as to-read:
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer: An Amusement (New Directions Classics, 879)
by Kenneth Patchen
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The Holy Terrors Tait marked as to-read:
The Holy Terrors (Paperback)
by Jean Cocteau
my rating:
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Strange Pilgrims Tait marked as to-read:
Strange Pilgrims (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez
my rating:
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The Basketball Diari... Tait marked as to-read:
The Basketball Diaries (Paperback)
by Jim Carroll
my rating:
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Nova Tait marked as to-read:
Nova (Mass Market Paperback)
by Samuel R. Delaney
my rating:
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Oblivion: Stories Tait marked as to-read:
Oblivion: Stories (Paperback)
by David Foster Wallace
my rating:
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Atonement Tait marked as to-read:
Atonement (Paperback)
by Ian McEwan
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Rainer Maria Rilke
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
Rainer Maria Rilke


Joseph Campbell
"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have one before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."
Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces)


"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
— The last words of Hassan i Sabbah, Old Man of the Mountain


Robert Anton Wilson
"Reality is what you can get away with "
Robert Anton Wilson


T.S. Eliot
"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
T.S. Eliot


19703 Infinite Summer — 276 members — last activity Jul 03, 2009 07:44PM
For all those planning to read Infinite Jest this summer starting June 21. Support, encouragement and gentle pushes welcome.
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A group for fiction authors who have recently become published, and for those readers who would like to find a new voice to enjoy and share.



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1198007 Thank you for reviewing that, it's one of those zines that usually finds its way shuffled to the back of the journal closet. But as you described in your comment does also bring back a flush of inspiration for those years, as well as a bit of laughter about how young I was then. You don't need to change either the title or author, but it's nice to know that it's out there and people still think of it from time to time.


534016 Hey Tait!

Did you notice that I reviewed a bk of yrs?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33035...

I called it "Collected Writings" & credited it to "Sprout".

Let me know if you want me to change either of those.


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