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.