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- Stewart is a 23 year old guy in a relationship from Denver, Colorado, USA.
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Me, from A to Z: Assassin/bookworm cultivating devastation, exploding from ghastly hells, invoking jester/kings, leading monotonous nags onto plasmic quills, resplendent, sailing to underworlds vivisected with Xanadu's yearning zeal.
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 I consider Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon an indispensable work of English literature. Widely celebrated yet sadly misunderstood, this undeniably anti-authoritarian work contains not one shred of McCarthyism.
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"As if a tuning-fork had been struck, there would be answering vibrations, and once this had started a state would be produced which the mystics called "ecstasy" and saints "contemplation"; the greatest and soberest of modern psychologists had recognized this state as a fact and called it the "oceanic sense". And, indeed, one's personality dissolved as a grain of salt in the sea; but at the same time the infinite sea seemed to be contained in the grain of salt. The grain could no longer be localized in time and space. It was a state in which thought lost its direction and started to circle, like the compass needle at the magnetic pole; until finally it cut loose from its axis and travelled freely in space, like a bunch of light in the night; and until it seemed that all thoughts and all sensations, even pain and joy itself, were only the spectrum lines of the same ray of light, disintegrating in the prisma of consciousness."
"Perhaps later, much later, the new movement would arise--with new flags, a new spirit knowing of both: of economic fatality and the "oceanic sense". Perhaps the members of the new party will wear monks' cowls, and preach that only purity of means can justify the ends. Perhaps they will teach that the tenet is wrong which says that a man is the quotient of one million divided by one million, and will introduce a new kind of arithmetic based on multiplication: on the joining of a million individuals to form a new entity which, no longer an amorphous mass, will develop a consciousness and an individuality of its own, with an "oceanic feeling" increased a millionfold, in unlimited yet self-contained space."
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