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

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

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.

FWIW, I felt that way at first. But then it was hard to stop!

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

The first sentence is definitely true, but as for the second... I don't think there's a correlation between colorfulosity and how much you are stuck with yourself. I think we are all stuck with ourselves, even if we're boring. How much better to be stuck with someone interesting!

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

That meme about things I've done and you haven't.

Oh, as they say: Do give it a go!

It's more fun if you leave out the big stuff and find interesting minutiae--for example, I can set my hand, palm down, on a flat surface, turn it over at the wrist until it is palm up, then turn it over again.

Ta-DA! Who else can do that, I ask you?

When I brag about it--and I offer to demonstrate at parties--my family reminds me I have already by given the "Questionable Achievement Award."

I tell them they are jealous.

As for your writing, I admire it immensely, and your wittiness is exquisite and polished.

In my humble and respectful opinion.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Oh, I LOVE that movie. And I especially love that scene, as well.

I love what you say about personality being as much a prison as it is a romper-room. So true. Anyone who doesn't think so should try to make a change in their behavior. "What's wrong? You've never done (it) that way before!"

Actually, I like your whole message. It sort of reflects the way I feel today...rather trapped within myself.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

You are incredibly brilliant. :)