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Baraka_Guru
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Baraka_Guru

Möderätor, Male, from Toronto

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Oh, hi! Nov 12, 2018

Baraka_Guru was last seen:
Jan 26, 2024
    1. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      It must be a conspiracy.
    2. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      It is a truth universally acknowledged, that those with the rankest of opinions have the unsoundest of logic.
    3. Baraka_Guru
    4. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Cooo, loo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coooo!
    5. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "Rhymes that keep their secrets / Will unfold behind the clouds...."
    6. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” —Maimonides
    7. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
    8. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write." ― P. Sidney, Astrophel & Stella
    9. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” ― Carl Jung
    10. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Yo-ho, haul together, hoist the colours high! Heave-ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!
    11. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I am the king of indecision just sitting on my throne.
    12. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?” —J. G. Ballard
      1. snowy
        snowy
        I'm so screwed.
        Sep 16, 2014
    13. cynthetiq
      cynthetiq
      This is known.
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    14. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Sturgeon's law states that 90% of everything is crap. It is known.
      1. snowy
        snowy
        I am the 10%.
        Sep 5, 2014
    15. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Hank Moody is my Tyler Durden.
    16. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “When both my editors say ‘This is really bad, you need to change this,’ I ignore that at my peril.” —Robin Hobb
    17. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Rohirrim! TO THE KING!
    18. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      All the books are migrating to my study. It's like my world is receding.
      1. cynthetiq
        cynthetiq
        just like someone's hairline
        Aug 8, 2014
      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Right?
        Aug 8, 2014
    19. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Don't hold your breath, but I may soon have a day off that won't cost me dearly in the end.
    20. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Ten more hours 'til a rest....
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    The details of my life are quite inconsequential. But very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical — summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it —

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    “I can't remember anything. I remember only ideas and sensations.”
    —James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
    “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
    —T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” Four Quartets (1943)