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[nny]

It's faintly depressing that my bio has pretty much remained unchanged for the past four-odd years. I've just really never found anything that's described me half so well. Nick Hornby books are faintly depressing and entirely too realistic and I identify with a large proportion of them, which is vaguely disturbing since they tend to be about outwardly cool but inwardly dissatisfied and poorly socialised approaching-middle-aged men.

I suppose the answer is to make myself into someone who can identify with something else, really. Make myself into a poetry person or a Deep and Meaningful Quote person or Shakespeare or what have you.

Do you quote anything on your userinfo? And is that something you feel you are, or something you aspire to be? Or is it just something that happened to appeal to you, once, when you were a bit pissed?

What do you reckon I should aspire to?



(Oh, and for the record? 12,360 words. That's almost twice as long as the next longest thing I've ever written, and it's just about halfway done.)

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[fahye.livejournal.com]

My userinfo has that panel from xkcd, because it is PERFECT for me.

In my Facebook profile, where I don't actually care about length and spamitude, I have this, which is along the same lines:

"Put the heart beside the brain and see the difference. The brain is neat, segmented, divided into two halves as we imagine the heart should obviously be. You can deal with the brain, you think; it is a receptive organ, one that invites comprehension. The brain looks sensible. It's complicated, to be sure, with all those wrinkles and frowns and gulleys and pockets; it resembles coral, making you wonder if it might be surreptitiously on the move all the time, quietly adding to itself without your noticing. The brain has its secrets, though when cryptanalysts, maze-builders and surgeons unite, it will surely be possible to solve those mysteries. You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible. Whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.

...

It will go wrong, this love; it probably will. That contorted organ, like the lump of ox meat, is devious and enclosed. Our current model for the universe is entropy, which at the daily level translates as: things fuck up. But when love fails us, we must still go on believing in it. Is it enclosed in every molecule that things fuck up, that love will fail? Perhaps it is. Still we must believe in love, just as we must believe in free will and objective truth."

- Julian Barnes, 'A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters'

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I adore that quote and still have to finish reading the book - it got packed up into one of the many boxes in Wales and I'm not allowed to access them for fear of unstraightening the blanket that covers them.

No, really.

(You see why I want to move out?)

XKCD makes me happy; everyone has a strip that speaks to them, I think. This is Rodney's (http://xkcd.com/c66.html). XD

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I *LOVE* that book.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Julian Barnes = my fucking literary hero, man. (Well, one among many.) He brings the snark like nobody's business, and manages to do it lyrically.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I've only read two of his books but I'm inclined to agree. Also the half-chapter in AHotWi10.5 was beyond brilliant.

[ms-ntropy.livejournal.com]

The first part of my userinfo was written by The Brat. It's pretty much the best summary for me that I've seen thus far.

An insensitive, jar opening, spider saving, farting person with a great rack.

The other half consists of a few lines from Untouchable Face a song by Folk Singer Ani DiFranco.

What was I thinking?
What will I think of next?
Where can I hide?

Basically this is what I think the day after I post something. And yeah...pretty much every time I post something.

As for what you should aspire to? Something we should all aspire to: not living our lives like emo songs.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I change quotes a lot. Currently I have: "I'm a liar and I have a drinking problem. Which is as good a description of a writer as you'll ever see." by Mark Manning. Mark Manning is an alcoholic womanising fuckhead, and quoting him really does not make me Deep.

[emmlet.livejournal.com]

For close to two years now, I have had a two-line bio claiming that one day I will write about my life and interests. So basically my bio is a mix of lies and procrastination and I'm okay with that.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I recently changed mine. It shows I am a Fantasizes About Historical Figures Person, which is . . . true. >.>

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

I hope you think of something, cause I love reading new bios. :D

Mine is, er, a bit out of date and quotes a fanfic and Sports Night, which, well, sad. Ahahah. I do think that "You think it's the clothes?" "I think it's the haircut." is about as apt a description of me as is possible. ;)

[gramarye1971]

I have two quotations about history -- one about contemporary history, one about archival research. The quote from C.S. Lewis comes from his study of mediaeval and Renaissance literature, and it sums up my thoughts on fanfiction writing quite nicely, I think. The other two are from poems. One is from a short bit of verse written by George Orwell. The other is from Carol Ann Duffy's 'Prayer', and it's my favourite poem.

My journal title, incidentally, translates to "Study depends on the good-will of the student, a quality which cannot be secured by compulsion." ^_^

[skygiants]

I flee from having Deep Thoughts in my profile!

Um, so essentially mine says that I have random conversations. And flee from deep thoughts. Which is fair warning and fairly accurate, I suppose.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I have a bunch of memes that I should probably get rid of and a few sentences describing my friending policies... and a couple of completely random ones just for kicks.

[liz666.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I have no cool selfdescriptive quote in my userinfo as yet-I don't read anywhere near enough inteligent books! Any ideas? As for you, try this "To turn from truth or proper purpose; to corrupt; to misinterpret; to misapply" This is the definition of 'pervert'!