narcissism | narcissism
Aug.10.2012
Jezebel is a study in narcissism verging on nymphomania wherein a beautiful, wealthy woman spends her life fighting off growing older, losing her appeal to men, and the legacy of her cruelty to her daughter and her daughter's illegitimate son.
The novel's form is interesting. It begins with...
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May.30.2012
He wanted to bury all his problems,
And so they were.
With each shovelful of consecrated dirt
He became all the martyr he hoped to be.
Stories were told,
Laughter,
Cries,
The center of everyone’s attention,
The sadness over his pain,
It was the things of his very most intimate dreams....
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Jan.19.2012
Fear not Anthropomorphism!
To anthropomorphize is to relate, albeit narcissistically.
But to relate is better than not to relate.
Anthropomorphize away!
And then, having related, away with anthropomorphism!
A pattern interruption caveat: there is a bit of narcissism to any form...
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Oct.09.2011
I can't give up knowing that I am important in the general scheme of things. After all, I'm a cell in the midst of a mighty organ, the organ of humanity. And, I know that one day I must slough off from the human maelstrom and mingle with the fibres of the flannel sheets in the dead of night....
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Oct.05.2011
Reality shows are, of course, one of the more obvious and current expressions of this: people letting the whole world be voyeurs to their private comings and goings, in the name of personal fame and fattening the bottomline of TV network executives who find the miniscule costs of RealiTV shows too...
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Sep.15.2011
I asked a writer-friend (okay, full disclosure, the writer friend with whom I’ve spent dozens of hours watching Buffy and Angel, though, unlike me, he never surrendered a precious, never-to-be-recovered week of life to all four of the Twilight books), “Why vampires? Why right now?”
He said, “It’s...
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Jun.05.2011
--A recent program on The History Channel, "April, 1865," was fascinating. Really, really well done. The last few weeks of the Civil War, the killing of Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and the decisions made by Grant, Lee, Sherman, Johnstone and the Confederate General...
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Sep.05.2010
The lovely nymph Echo was dead and only her voice remained, endlessly repeating the final sounds uttered by others. The beautiful Narcissus carried on as he had before. Other nymphs, young women, and young men continued to fall at his feet--- and he continued to step on them. A determined...
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Jun.19.2010
If you spend one-fourth of your day in front of mirror tilting your head in all possible directions to let your silky hairy sheath contribute in making a perfect model pose-when your strands brush against your cheeks or a few strands, bit twisted, ( so old fashioned though :P ) swing just near your...
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Nov.14.2009
Taken from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, fully written but awaiting editorial attention. Dysfunctional family wrestles in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain.
Gabriel had often imagined his wife's last moments, what he would do, what he would say, how he would feel....
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