"You are who you think you ain't."
We often fool ourselves into believing we are a singular unified person, yet we are a grab bag of personae.
Fiction gives us everything. It gives us our memories, our understanding, our insight, our lives. We use it to invent ourselves and others. We use it to feel change and sadness and hope and love and to tell each other about ourselves.” — Keith Ridgway, Dublin-born award-winning writer, Everything is Fiction, The New Yorker, Aug 8, 2012.
“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.”
― P.D. James
Happy 92nd birthday to mystery writer Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park (born today in 1920).
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“The Big Data collectors (Facebook, Amazon, Google, etc.) are so good at spotting the development of subcultures that soon, Venkat says, they will be creating and controlling them for their own (or their clients) market exploitation.”
Another case of “you are who you think you ain’t.”
Monday morning, personae, desire, and self
Monday morning arrives. You feel the need to define yourself, who you’ll be, for the week ahead. You must choose a dominate persona out of the personae that are you. Each persona consists of multiple narratives which are woven from many metaphors.
The task of choosing from this dense and intricate collage seems difficult unless you let desire take over. Without desire you would remain inert, computing a problem too complex and lengthy for logic to resolve, until someone or something devoured you or you simply decayed.
