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Brian M. Ross

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New Castle, The United States
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Thomas Mann, Dorothy Parker, Joseph Campbell, Douglas Adams

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As a kid, I spent more time daydreaming than reading — unless it was Douglas Adams, of course. I dabbled in writing lyrics and the occasional poem, but I was far too shy to share them with anyone. That changed in my early 20s, when I found myself adrift in a sea of books. I discovered Thomas Mann, Dorothy Parker, the Greek classics, and the strange brilliance of ancient myths. That’s when I began taking writing seriously.

A few years later, the current shifted. My attention turned to other forms of storytelling — photography, graphic/web design, and film. Words gave way to light and sound.
This little poetry collection captures that brief window between obsessions. These poems are fragments of thought, moments of feeling, and snapshots of exp ...more

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“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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“I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?”
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“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.”
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“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
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“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”
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