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Tait McKenzie Johnson
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The Changelings performed our first show with Trinity at the Robotone last night – the punk club now decked in blue lights giving the grey walls a surreal metallic tinge – along with some bands on tour from the Texan suburbs who played with more of that passionate intensity I'm talking about.
Except all the hardcore kids just hung outside playing foursquare in the parking lot next door, and on...
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Invisible Neighborhoods 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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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  4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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All Tonight's Adventures 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Eyeless Prison (Literature & Fiction)
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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is re-envisioned as a historical romance about international art thieves during World War II (Fall '08, short story, unpublished)
The Story of the Bear and the Violin (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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An a-historical fiction derived from several Eastern-European folktales. (Spring '08, short story, unpublished)
Last 20 Moments (Literature & Fiction)
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Some Beckettian flash in a timeless room. ( Fall '08, an assignment for fiction class)
A Myth of Creation and Foretelling (Literature & Fiction)
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A myth based off of personal symbols. (Fall '07, short story, unpublished, written for Dr. Fred Clothey's class on Myth, Symbol, and Ritual)
Beast In The Eye Of (Literature & Fiction)
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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)
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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
“Reality is what you can get away with.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
― Robert Anton Wilson, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
“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
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
― Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
