The '10' List 2

Ten Verbal Photographs
1. Punk Rocker’s do not care, I you’re already hurt. They will crush you at a concert.
2. I had a dream that I met Ernest Hemingway and he told me the perfect quote, but I do not remember the quote. I did get to meet Ernest Hemmingway though.
3. My mother told me when I was four years old, I cried because I could not write correctly, but I taught myself. This I did not know.
4. I had a dream again about Ninja’s, but they were all girls. Every girl I have ever had relations with was out to get me. This could be an interesting jumping off point for my writing.
5. There are a lot of religious movies coming out.
6. When somebody talks in the movie, should I turn around and ask them to be quiet during The Book Of Eli or should I tell them that I will harpoon them with a arm broken off from my chair.
7. Avatar is an incarnation of Hindu deity in human or animal form, especially one of the incarnations of Vishnu such as Rama and Krishna. Do you think that Hindu’s are sick of Americans trying to alter their ideas into appalling forms of art?
8. While on the Hindu subject, imagine coming to a house to play music with some people and one person has a sitar. A sitar, for those of you that don’t know, is a music instrument similar to the guitar. This person bought the guitar, but did not know how to play it, ruined the music. Do not try to be The Beatles!
9. Is Eastern Michigan University famous in other states? I think not, so maybe I could write something important about the school to help.
10. I have noticed that when I write the most is right when I wake up, but it is never about the dreams I just had. I always, usually remember my dreams. Is that my, red light time, to write.

10 quotes
1. “The earth has music for those who listen.” -William Shakespeare
2. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music” –Aldous Leonard Huxley
3. “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night” -Edgar Allan Poe
4. “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. "A fundamental part of Lincoln's moral compass was his opposition to slavery. But it took him a long time to embrace black people. We were raised with a fairy tale representation that because he hated slavery, he loved the slaves. He didn't. He was a recovering racist. He used to use the N word. He told darky jokes. He resisted abolition as long as he could. But in the end, he was on an upward arc, one that was quite noble." Henry Louis Gates Jr.
6. “I will fly at last. I will unfold my wings. I will unpack my head. I will step back outside. One day I may even make love again. But one thing at a time. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.” –Luke Davies from God of Speed
7. “There comes a time in everyone’s life, where you can’t seem to find your place, you can’t seem to get anything right” -Ray Lamontagne
8. “Things best forgotten were remembered” -The Flight of the Pigeons
9. “But fools are hard to find, they don’t like to admit it” -The Flight of the Pigeons.
10. “I put my father in the show, with his cold eyes. His segment was called My father Concerned About His Liver.” -The Flight of the Pigeons

Again, I have incorporated some of the similar quote subjects that I have used before. These are the things that seem to draw my attention the most. The subjects that I discussed came everywhere from Dreams to Movies, Hindu Deity’s to Music, and racism to F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it is important to incorporate everything in my writing, everything in the sense that I display every emotion in me. When looking for these quotes and verbal photographs, I tend to pick things out that grab my attention at the most pristine times. It’s like the clouds clear and I have to write it down, whether it is on paper sitting close to me or a napkin at a bar. That moment of clarity is what squeezes out at me.
The topics that I form together may seem strange, but I feel that is what makes for the most interesting read. Bathelme stated in his text, “The supply of strange ideas is not endless.” This to me incorporated a sense of personal growth. I believed that beauty in a text is left to the eye of the beholder. This text brought out a sense of brainstorming that I have never really cared to look at before. I learned that an idea could seem amazing at one point in time, but when it comes to the final result, it could be horrid. This has taught me to never take my thoughts for granted and work around every angle to form my most perfect ideas.

The '10' List

10 Verbal Photographs

1. When people pass by a police officer, it is an automatic lead foot on the brake.
2. Lucky in Love
3. I had a dream that books had no covers and they never ended.
4. Divorce rate in America, according to divorcerate.org, is at 50% and projecting rapidly.
5. I met a drunk man at the bar, who fell in the urinal, kick-started my awkward humor for the year 2010.
6. President Obama, has acquired up to 100 million dollars to help the people in Haiti. This shows the working of a President that exceeds the intelligence of a young child, i.e., George W. Bush and his relayed affect to react to Hurricane Katrina.
7. I had a dream that many aliens that were disguised as Obsessive Compulsive Ninja’s were attacking Eastern Michigan. When they killed you they always chopped your body from let to right.
8. When walking into a library, I always in turn hold the door for people and they say thank you. When they do not, I want to shove them back out and slam the door in their face. I have observed that this happens to others frequently also.
9. My impression of life is to do what you need to do to get down, any outlying obstacles are just added challenges, work your way through them and not around them.
10. I think, therefore I daydream.

10 Treasures

1. And I think it’s safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. –Warren Zevon
2. Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about. –Rodney Dangerfeild.
3. you lose track of time, you know what i mean? On the odd occasion when we take time to think about it, we are ashamed, perplexed, Nothing it seems has changed...The high point of our life is the moment we plunge the needle. the self perpetuating fuck.Adrift. AT times it seems that i am floating in the beauty of docility. Pulling the needle from my arm, i succumb again and again to the luscious undertow of the infinite spaces betweem atoms. My arm an estuary of light in which all rivers gather. –Luke Davies in Candy.
4. Don’t do drugs because I you do drugs you’ll go to prison and drugs are really expensive in prison. –John Hardwick.
5. Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money. –Robin Williams.
6. There is no point among the incomprehensible anomalies of the science of mind, move thrillingly, excited then the fact-never, I believe noticed in the schools- that in our endeavours to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourseleves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember. -Edgar Allan Poe from Ligeia.
7. The fragment is among the most characteristic figures of the Romantic movement. -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
8. Romantic poetry is a progressive universal poetry. Its destiny is not merely to reunite all of the different genres and to put poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric. -Friedrich Schlegel
9. Fragments speak to me of hope. They reach out to completion but never reach it. -Joseph Cornell
10. Albert: Your brin? Your brain is a body part. Like your fingernail or your heart. Why is that the part that’s you?

Chris Neilson: Because I have sort of a voice in my head, the part of me thinks, that feels, that is aware that I exist at all. -What Dreams May Come

The verbal photographs are ten of my most fantasizing notions or visions that have contributed to these thoughts. There are some major influences of the mind that have bled through onto my writing and my curiousness, to find other significant texts that wet my appetite. This in turn, leads to my favorite quotes, which come from all walks of literary pages. I have dabbled through my favorite texts from music to drugs, impression to euphoria, and economic importance to romantic literature. The backbone of my literature fascination starts with the writing of the romantic authors, such as, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne; nothing seems to grab my attention more, essentially. I do understand there is really only one romantic quote in my set of lists, but I think that the sense of dire feelings of Poe and Hawthorne’s expressionistic attitude of nature in his writing has influenced each other my categories in one way or another. Music is made for a variety of reasons, hallucinogenic drugs are used to experience nature in its euphoric form, and money seems to bring both happiness and melancholy to all of these groupings.

All of the quotes I used from the reading are primarily from the “Fragments On Fragments” reading. I found the idea of romantic literature to be a universal style of writing. It establishes a demeanor in which all the different genres unite and rhetoric is altogether formed to find a common ground to unite all of the genres into one primary literary fusion. The way the genre unites, according to me personally, is the notion of mystery and liveliness. Romantic literature brings an idea of wonder that leaves ones mind up to interpretation, there is never an end in romantic literature if you analyze the text. It just all comes together to form this level of mysticism that is astonishing.