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Je vais éveiller tous les mystères: mystères religieux ou naturels, mort, naissance, avenir, passé, cosmogonie, néant. Je suis maître en fantasmagories. — Rimbaud, "Nuit de l'Enfer", Une Saison en Enfer

Nestas impressões sem nexo, nem desejo de nexo, narro indiferentemente a minha autobiografia sem fatos, a minha história sem vida. São as minhas Confissões, e, se nelas nada digo, é que nada tenho que dizer.—Pessoa, "Préfacio", Livro do Desassossego

As preface—and forewarning—a quotation:

Regarding this site, and this profile in particular, I have resigned myself to the fact that a sesquicentum is not only an insufficient number of “interests” to adequately depict a person but that it is also a number that is not going to increase in the official livejournal user profile. So, to address that failing, I am going to move some of the more common items of my interests out into their own sections in this “bio”, leavning room for rarer—thus more defining—items in the “official” list. To begin, then:

bands / musicians / composers—julie albers, αριστοξενος των ταραντινων, nick cave, fryderyk franciszek szopen / frédéric françois chopin, leonard cohen, coil, current 93, модест петрович мусоргский, arvo pärt, camille saint-saëns, erik alfred leslie satie, franz peter schubert, ulf söderberg, tertium non data, the tiny, tool, etc.

instruments—csound, huaca, piano, theremin, bass trombones, nonce instruments and countless others.

authors / poets / books / characters / related matters—abraham ben samuel abulafia, robert aickman, farad ud-din attar, jacopo belbo, bibliognosts, bibliopolists, bibliothecaphilia, algernon blackwood, the book of disquiet, giordano bruno, gaius valerius catullus, john horton conway, 道德經, stephen reeder donaldson, the dosadi experiment, the duino elegies, georges dumézil, a educação do estóico, greg egan, marsilio ficino, foucault's pendulum, abu hamid ibn muhammad ibn muhammad al-tusi al-shafi'i al-ghazali, حافظ شیرازی, thomas hardy, hermann hesse, jósef maria höené-wroński, 黃帝陰符經, julian jaynes, the journey to the east, jude the obscure, carl gustav jung, franz kafka, donald ervin knuth, tyrion lannister, kurd lasswitz, yochanan "hans" lewy, libraries,the library of babel, thomas ligotti, λουκιανος σαμοσατευς, giovanni pico della mirandola, alan moore, friedrich wilhelm nietzsche, νικομαχος γερασηνου, fernando antonio nogueira pessoa, om det tragiske, edward john moreton drax plunkett, lord dunsany, 清靜經, paschal beverly randolph, rainer maria rilke, isabelle robinet, charles rosen, rudolf von bitter rucker, arthur schopenhauer, lucius annæus seneca minor, severian, den sidste messias, bernardo soares, algernon charles swinburne,太玄經, yosef tzayach, weird fiction, gene wolfe, 易經, 易林, peter wessel zapffe, zarathustra, and likewise countless others.

artists (brief and random sampling)—zdzisław beksiński, michelangelo buonarroti, jean-léon gérôme, jk potter, pieter pauwel rubens, others.

language—auxlangs, chinese, conlangs, coptic, correspondence, epistolary love, etruscan, etymology, greek (homeric), holophrasis, latin, logodaedaly, logolepsy, manju, philology, russian, signing, silbo gomero, church slavonic, ugaritic, writing, others.

mythology—αγαθοδαιμων, αιδης, allotheism, απειρος, arcana arcanorum, artificial intelligence, artificial life, בפומת, χαος, cynothoglys, ερεβος, ερεβος υφαλον, ερμης, eulis, إِفْناء, היכלות, hieromachy, ι.α.ω., κακοδαιμων, khalwa, חכמת הצרוף, η κοκκινη γυνη, कुण्डलिनी, liturgy, the luminous triangle, το μεγα θηριον, مَلَك طاوُوس, מרכבה, النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ, 內丹, the onyx stone, ορφνη, passalorynchites, psilanthropy, ritual, the seven stars, the seventy-two letters, shatahat, שם המפורש, σκιαι, שופיא, spiritual machines, 道, tasha nefre, theopoesis, yam-nahar, other things.