Limitations

[poliphilo]

That meme about things I've done and you haven't. I'm tempted to try it but it makes my head hurt to remember all that stuff.

Every one of those things I've done and you haven't is just another brick in the wall.

Personality is a prison as much as its a romper-room. The more colourful I am, the more I'm stuck with myself.

I'm Quentin Crisp. No-one is ever going to ask me to haul a sleigh to the South Pole.

As a writer I keep coming up against my limitations. I bang against them like a vacuum cleaner butting against the skirting board.

The least limited writer ever was Shakespeare. He creates an illusion of knowing everything. We haven't a clue what he was like in himself.

One of my favourite scenes from the movies is Rita Haworth and Edward Everett Sloane in Lady From Shanghai. They're in the mirror maze, surrounded by multiple images of themselves. He says something like "I'm awfully tired of us, lover." Then they start shooting.

Glass everywhere.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was getting desperate by the end. I spent about 20 minutes staring vacantly at the ceiling before the final 3 slipped into place.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

But now don't you have an extra 5 you'd like to add?

I'm sure you have done lots of things that other people haven't. I liked the sandstorm at Luxor Airport.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't suppose there are many people who've been both an Episcopal priest And a Wiccan high priest but....

...but actually I'm a very quiet and domestic sort of chap.