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February 07
47462 Loran wrote Sound for Chou: Sounds.

"A man came to my door a few minutes ago, a Jehovah's Witness, and I got rid of him as politely as I " ...more
47462 Loran wrote Fairfield, IA: July, 2007.

"made for some amusing scenes. In a breakfast stop at Revelations, a popular cafe in Fairfield [and w" ...more
February 06
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."Michel Foucault
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"On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama."Henry Miller
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"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack."henry
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"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."Henry Miller
433942 New comment on Loran's review of The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right
47462 Loran wrote: "No. I expect extremism to beget extremism. We're all bat-shit crazy. If we weren't, everything would...more "

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February 02
47462 Loran wrote Easy: she moves to the northwest.

"at last you’re rid of me
and the pearl sky won’t be heavy with us.
it will always be raining, " ...more
Identity: A Novel Loran gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Identity: A Novel (Paperback)
by Milan Kundera
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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read in March, 1999

Loran Loran said: "I gained a few things from my relationship with J, and Milan Kundera, while first suggested by my darling Aunt, was nevertheless one of them. I have a hard time considering him in a fair light, because his pristine and lucid phrasing so precisely mir...more "




Loran's favorite quotes

1938
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
— Friedrich Nietzche

1260
"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
Michel Foucault

82951
"Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her. "
W. C. Fields

82951
"Take me down to the bar! We'll drink breakfast together!"
W. C. Fields




Loran's writing

Sound for Chou (Biographies & Memoirs)
1 chapters   —   updated 02/07/2008 12:21AM
description: In which I continue the conversation I would have had with Suzanne,, the greatest woman on earth, had she not been designing palm fronds in Los Angeles.
Fairfield, IA (Biographies & Memoirs)
1 chapters   —   updated 02/07/2008 12:08AM
description: Nothings which time passes.
Easy (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 02/02/2008 11:32PM
description: break up.
Schweir vs. Material (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated 01/31/2008 09:35AM
description: In which Thomas, recently single, finally reacts to the charge that he had taken advantage of his lover due to his insufficient means.



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