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Tait McKenzie Johnson
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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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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 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 by Tait McKenzie Johnson (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2006 |
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The Flashing Future (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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updated May 15, 2009 03:18PM
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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)
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updated Mar 02, 2009 09:16AM
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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)
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updated Mar 02, 2009 09:15AM
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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)
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updated Sep 25, 2008 06:44PM
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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)
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updated Sep 18, 2008 06:29PM
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Some Beckettian flash in a timeless room. ( Fall '08, an assignment for fiction class)
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Rainbows End (Mass Market Paperback) by Vernor Vinge bookshelves: culture-theory, currently-reading, literature, school, sci-fi |
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Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (Paperback) by Chuang Tzu bookshelves: currently-reading, east-asian, school, spiritual-occult |
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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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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Paperback) by Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer: An Amusement (New Directions Classics, 879) by Kenneth Patchen |
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The Holy Terrors (Paperback) by Jean Cocteau |
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Strange Pilgrims (Paperback) by Gabriel García Márquez |
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The Basketball Diaries (Paperback) by Jim Carroll |
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Nova (Mass Market Paperback) by Samuel R. Delaney |
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Oblivion: Stories (Paperback) by David Foster Wallace |
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Atonement (Paperback) by Ian McEwan |
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"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
— Rainer Maria Rilke
"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)
— 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
— The last words of Hassan i Sabbah, Old Man of the Mountain
"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
— T.S. Eliot
— T.S. Eliot
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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.
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.
