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emilygolightly
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[2007-10-01 15:35:39 +0000 UTC]
"fear of the feminine"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 278; Deviations: 87; Watchers: 334
Watching: 20; Pageviews: 37980; Comments Made: 482; Friends: 20
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: egon schiele, keith haring, miroslav tichy, louis wain, edvard munch, guy bourdin, jean-michel basquiat, david lynchFavorite movies: fear and loathing in las vegas, blue velvet, paris is burning, full metal jacket, heathers, wild at heart, bonnie and clyde, twelve monkeys, the little mermaid, evil dead 2, american psycho
Favorite TV shows: twin peaks, beavis and butthead, classic simpsons
Favorite bands / musical artists: b-52s, thee oh sees, johnny cash, bon iver, iggy pop, billy idol, lightning hopkins, billie holiday, beastie boys, big brother & the holding company, jefferson airplane, black sabbath, the cramps, leadbelly, nirvana, tim buckley, elisabeth fraser
Favorite books: henry and june by anais nin, howl & other selected works by allen ginsberg
Favorite writers: charles bukowski, anais nin, henry miller, sylvia plath, dylan thomas, nabokov, hunter s thompson, t.s. eliot, richard brautigan, ginsberg & all the beats
Tools of the Trade: sertraline, cutter's choice tobacco, black coffee
Other Interests: brains and stars
# About me
“Woman’s role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don’t mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fabricate. She must descend into the real womb and expose its secrets and its labyrinths. She must describe it as the city of Fez, with its Arabian Nights gentleness, tranquility and mystery. She must describe the voracious moods, the desires, the worlds contained in each cell of it. For the womb has dreams. It is not as simple as the good earth. I believe at times that man created art out of fear of exploring woman. I believe woman stuttered about herself out of fear of what she had to say. She covered herself with taboos and veils. Man invented a woman to suit his needs. He disposed of her by identifying her with nature and then paraded his contemptuous domination of nature. But woman is not nature only. She is the mermaid with her fish-tail dipped in the unconscious.”-Anaïs Nin
She who makes a beast of herself gets rid of the pain of being a woman.
# Comments
Comments: 215
Congratulations on the DLR feature, Emily.
Now, I'll watch you for a couple of reasons:
- you write beautifully
- as they used to say decades ago -
'you're cuter than a bug's ear'
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I hope you're well, Emily. I still come back and read your poems on a regular basis, but I hope that the world you are in is treating you wonderfully.
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Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, trembling with cold and hunger - a very picture of sorrow. The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought. "Someone is just dead!" said the little girl; she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire.
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Baby, Will You Help Me
zip this dress; will you not
get drunk tonight and will you
please just hold my hand?
Tomorrow I'm flying home, so
instead of going out with you I'll
be hiding meat in my napkin at
a welcome-back party. I'm
excited, I promise, so happy
to be here. But it seems I'm
- Nina Bahadur
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Baby, Will You Help Me
zip this dress; will you not
get drunk tonight and will you
please just hold my hand?
Tomorrow I'm flying home, so
instead of going out with you I'll
be hiding meat in my napkin at
a welcome-back party. I'm
excited, I promise, so happy
to be here. But it seems I'm
not grown-up yet, it seems
that I drink keg beer
and use vulgar American
words. I'm too fresh,
and the way I say just what
I mean is all of a sudden
offensive in my
rhotic pronunciation, my
up-and-down intonation.
And, you're right, I've known them
all for years. I grew up in their
houses, I played in their gardens,
I could take it or leave it.
I wouldn't mind if they stared, but -
I'll be far from you. Your voice
will sound wrong on the phone, and
I won't see that first morning look -
today, your eyes opened like you'd been
falling face-first.
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i'm so sorry i forgot to reply this, i have been so scatterbrained and dizzy with third year studies. this is beautiful, thank you for sharing this with me.
(this is also v. easy to relate to as someone in love with an american guy. in three days i'm gonna be on your turf! 
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I thought you might like that, she's a good debut poet.
(ooooh! exciting! where & how long do you get to stay?)
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Wish you a most happy new year, full of creativity!
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you too william dallwitz!
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Greetings! Your delightful work has been featured here: fav.me/d6zxpv5 . Have a Happy New Year!
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You have been featured here. 
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LCF girl, are you a UK girl as well?
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I have NO idea why I haven't watched you... till now!
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You look like someone I wouldn't know how to handle with my camera. But you write like someone I couldn't bear not to have in front of it.
How odd.
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i'm notoriously unphotogenic, haha. but thank you, that is a wonderful compliment.
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photogenic isn't the goal, human is.
and if your writing is to be judged by, you are quite deeply human.
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Thank you for adding [link] to your favourites, Emily -bows-
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It's kind of you, my lady, considering that clouds watching movies is a favorite thing of yours. Therefore shall i say and claim : thank you.
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It is an honor for one of my deviations to be in your favorites. Thank you so much.
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it's a really beautiful poem, no worries xxx
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I hope you don't mind if I use lines of your poetry for May Mixup Madness?
It would be an honor to write a poem using randomly selected lines of various poems of yours.
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i'd adore that, please show me when you're done!
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thank you so much!
here it is (i hope you like it) [link]
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thank you so much, that's so sweet!
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thank you soso much for the recent fave(s), dear friend!
your support means quite a lot!
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[link] Could you hold on to this link for me? Thanks a bundle. Just don't click it whatever you do.
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Happy birthday you beautiful writer. Have an amazing day!
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