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.*of course i dream i fame, who doesn't dream of either fame or fortune... but... i'm sane enough to want to achieve that sort of stature, postmortem... what? with all the celebrity culture big brother ******** who the hell seeks fame while still alive? oh... well... there are the countless examples...* and why would i take an ancestry test of my D.N.A. make-up? i remember the first conversation i had with the father of my first girlfriend... how many famous Poles (Polaks... do i look like something akin to an anorexic waving a ******* flag?) there were... i forgot Copernicus... i forgot Marie Curie... i forgot Chopin... **** i forgot my own name when i saw my first girlfriend's sister walk down the stairs... why would i do D.N.A. testing? i just looked at what we eat... and i mean we, truly, it's called haggis in Scotland, it's called black pudding in England, and it's also called czarna kiszka (black intestines) in Poland... the Vikings founded Kiev after all... i like Nordic music, take a guess... take a while... my maternal surname is Batuk... which is a Bohemian variant of the Polak Batóg... so a mix of Czech and...   Viking? the Goths... if i had the time, and also the time reference to reply to my first girlfriend's father... while i was rudely interrupted by the nymph that was her sister... it's still a dream to me... or what's called an arranged marriage in India... well... i would reply... and how many Nobel literature laureates... came from... England? deathly silence... you're right... you're importing all this ****** post empire post colonial perspectives and you have... 0 Nobel laureates in the category of literature... none! zero! nil! oh! yeah...        oh... really?                                    yes! zilch... so zip-it-up, shrimpy. i take certain words to heart... sharpens my memory, i'm not offended... i just remember better... you sometimes require certain rubrics that are exclusive and do not include the rubrics of formal education... this memory? oh...       2003.
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Nov 12, 2018
Nov 12, 2018 at 7:26 PM UTC
a dream of a nymph
.*of course i dream i fame, who doesn't dream of either fame or fortune... but... i'm sane enough to want to achieve that sort of stature, postmortem... what? with all the celebrity culture big brother ******** who the hell seeks fame while still alive? oh... well... there are the countless examples...* and why would i take an ancestry test of my D.N.A. make-up? i remember the first conversation i had with the father of my first girlfriend... how many famous Poles (Polaks... do i look like something akin to an anorexic waving a ******* flag?) there were... i forgot Copernicus... i forgot Marie Curie... i forgot Chopin... **** i forgot my own name when i saw my first girlfriend's sister walk down the stairs... why would i do D.N.A. testing? i just looked at what we eat... and i mean we, truly, it's called haggis in Scotland, it's called black pudding in England, and it's also called czarna kiszka (black intestines) in Poland... the Vikings founded Kiev after all... i like Nordic music, take a guess... take a while... my maternal surname is Batuk... which is a Bohemian variant of the Polak Batóg... so a mix of Czech and...   Viking? the Goths... if i had the time, and also the time reference to reply to my first girlfriend's father... while i was rudely interrupted by the nymph that was her sister... it's still a dream to me... or what's called an arranged marriage in India... well... i would reply... and how many Nobel literature laureates... came from... England? deathly silence... you're right... you're importing all this ****** post empire post colonial perspectives and you have... 0 Nobel laureates in the category of literature... none! zero! nil! oh! yeah...        oh... really?                                    yes! zilch... so zip-it-up, shrimpy. i take certain words to heart... sharpens my memory, i'm not offended... i just remember better... you sometimes require certain rubrics that are exclusive and do not include the rubrics of formal education... this memory? oh...       2003.
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Nov 12, 2018
Nov 12, 2018 at 7:26 PM UTC
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