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| User: | liyiaallecto (711979)
The Phoenix's blazing t(r)ail
ashes and embers
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| Name: | Ootori the Fury |
| Bio: | If you try to catch a phoenix by its tale you might get set on fire.
"Art and morals are, with certain provisos...one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. What stuns us into a realisation of our supersensible destiny is not, as Kant imagined, the formlessness of nature, but rather its unutterable particularity; and most particular and individual of all natural things is the mind of man....Freedom is exercised in the confrontation by each other, in the context of an infinitely extensible work of imaginative understanding, of two irreducibly dissimilar individuals. Love is the imaginative recognition of, that is respect for, this otherness."
-Iris Murdoch "The Sublime and the Good"
"What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written, "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is no one to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of one's heart. There is room enough for all... Whatever you do should be done for the sake of your master and parents, the people in general, and for posterity. This is great compassion. The wisdom and courage that come from compassion are real wisdom and courage."
-Hagakure
"Say 'Nevermore'"
"Fuck you!" said the raven.
-Neil Gaiman "American Gods"
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| Memories:: | 11 entries |
| Interests: | 144: akira kurosawa, autumn, barthes, bernard cornwell, blankets, boots, bunuel, burning leaves, bushido, campfires, chambara, change, chess, children's literature, chocolate and orange, classical music, conversation, cooking, crosscultural translation, curling up, cycling, dancing, dante, dario argento, doctor who, dorothy parker, douglas adams, dreaming, dreams, dresses, edogawa rampo, edward bear, empathy, experimental music, faded photographs, fairy tales, fencing, film noir, fire, fireplaces, forests, french, games, german expressionism, healing, heian women, holding hands, hope, humanism, i wish for peace, ideograms, indian food, industrial music, iris murdoch, irony, italian, jazz, jidai-geki, kabuki, kaidan, kozure no okami, kyoto, laughter, learning, lettuce soap, light, love, magic, magic underpants, magritte, man ray, miro, mishima, modern literature, modernism, mono no aware, movies, murakami haruki, myth, narnia, narration, neil jordan, noh, old books, oral tradition, osaka, oz, parody, passion, pathei mathos, persimmons, peter greenaway, philia, pinstripes, prime suspect, reading, red, rene girard, risk, robin of sherwood, rolling down hills, romanticism, salman rushdie, samurai, sankofa, satire, shabu-shabu, sharing life, siena, sleeping, softness, storytelling, strength, sushi, sweaters, tartufo, teaching, techno music, thai food, the bbc, the dark is rising, the fantastic, the hagakure, the inferno, the phoenix, theatre, thunderstorms, timothy findley, todorov, tolstoy, tragedy, traveling, trees, twilight, ukiyo-e, vernacular language, vikings, virgil, walcott, wine, woolgathering, world cinema, world literature, writing |
| Friends: |  | 38: | _adm, cenobite_cyborg, cirhosis, couillon, cronos_mantas, crypt_kitten, dem, djdarq, djinndustries, evildrgo, foamymcmlxxiv, gilamonstre, gisellucy, humanclone, inguz, isobel80, jeejeen, kingcommando, littlehoudini, liyiaallecto, loftwyr, mark00z, mycrazyhair, mzrowan, noize_girl, northbard, pageless, rhonra, sirennyx, spastik_kitty, squid_pants, stevetassie, thistoshallpass, thornleaf, tormenta, valgarth, whynotsteve, wulfram |  | 7: | cinssu, darqdebauchery, ljwin32_sema, rsaudio, toronto, torontogoth, torontotheatre |  | 3: | apod, officialgaiman, savagelove |
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| Mutual Friends: | 33: _adm, cenobite_cyborg, cirhosis, couillon, cronos_mantas, crypt_kitten, dem, djdarq, djinndustries, evildrgo, foamymcmlxxiv, gilamonstre, gisellucy, humanclone, inguz, isobel80, kingcommando, littlehoudini, liyiaallecto, mark00z, mycrazyhair, mzrowan, noize_girl, northbard, rhonra, sirennyx, spastik_kitty, squid_pants, thistoshallpass, thornleaf, tormenta, whynotsteve, wulfram |
| Also Friend of: | 6: _tish_, gynomitesunshin, phink, sheamues, wetolli, woodrunner |
| Member of: | 25: anti_ano, best_thing_ever, cinssu, dailycharacter, darqdebauchery, darqproductions, discuss_writing, fetishgoths, fetishparty, gradlitgeeks, href, iwishforpeace, ljrecipes, nostalgia_books, onehundredwords, paidmembers, toronto, toronto_jobs, torontogoth, torontorentals, torontotats, veggie_recipes, where_in_to, woks_of_asia, wordword |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
