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Tait McKenzie Johnson
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Here is the first full map depicting every unique location in my dream world:
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Shortcut to Infinity
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Invisible Neighborhoods
— 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 — published 2006 |
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All Tonight's Adventures
— published 2006 |
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The Eyeless Prison (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:36pm
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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is re-envisioned as a historical romance about international art thieves during World War II (Fall '08, short story, unpublished)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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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:35pm
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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 (Spring '08, short story, unpublished)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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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:35pm
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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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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:35pm
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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 (Fall '07, short story, unpublished, written for Dr.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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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34pm
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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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| By the three strident trumpet blasts that end Erik Rücker Eddison’s “The Worm Ouroboros” I found myself more impressed, more touched, than I expected I would be. As one of the classic works of pre-Tolkien epic fantasy, published in 1922, this book ta...more | |
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| Except for the chapter on John Dewey, this text is most useful for studying the history of philosophical thought on aesthetics, not aesthetics as a lived experience and practice. | |
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
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The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-87 (Collected Works)
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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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May 31, 2008 06:27am
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.
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Hey Tait! Did you notice that I reviewed a bk of yrs?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...
I called it "Collected Writings" & credited it to "Sprout".
Let me know if you want me to change either of those.
