and/or casual composition
(since I don't have any bonified "famous writer" friends to oblige the introduction-task)
(since I suspect such affectionately-intended irony/wit/humor just migbt be lost among some of you erik-newbies out there :-P)
Half-guilty as charged...I did look them up. However, <gently lowering your rigid accusatory finger> I selected them from memory, more specifically from sources which I had already read and internalized...looking them up was done for the purposes of verbatim-accuracy (didn't want to misquote, of course). As for any desire to be sophisticated, that's probably better achieved with Beverly Hills breast implants and honorary doctoral degrees from Ivy League universities from which one previously dropped out or failed...I don't know...maybe Microsoft software professional certifications help too. :-)
But never think for a second that sound literary-recitations increase sophistication. They're proven to inrease likelihood-percentages of unemployment, sexual frustration, alcoholism, and general bohemian despair, but definitely not sophistication. :-) I've warned you.
You yawningly inquire, "So why the quotes, o' overly-winded one?"
Because they play on the fact of this webpage, o' delightfully-inquisitive one! Think about it. The Fellini quote observes the virtue of not wasting one's time and efforts on creating what could be concluded as extraneous, superficial nonsense...this website is most likely in direct violation of that advice - perhaps I should have slipped firecrackers down a couple of unsuspecting anthills instead. :-) The Borges quote is purely complementary (although perhaps not within its original verse-context) - it worships your ability to gracefully absorb such unique (if outrageous) content suddenly placed in front of you...smile and bow/curtsey. Finally, the Aristotle quote unintentionally comments on the whether-dramatic effect perhaps produced by this presentation...the most innocent wonder if sensations of "fear" and "pity" are what I'm trying to elicit in this, my fledgling webpage, when it is that wondering itself I cheerfully accept as payment...that, and the "superior poet" part isn't shabby either. :-) So now you know the "why" behind the quotes. Lovely.
You irritably mutter, "So why the hell should I bother exploring the rest of this huffing, pretentious, and altogether awkward webpage?"
Because it's sure to be risky and mysterious. And that makes me risky and mysterious. And I can tell by your fluttering gestures and swaying posture just how much you're, say, hypnotically attracted, to such a webpage, and thus to such a man (if you're a heterosexual female), or how much you're, perhaps, readily led, by the risky and mysterious (if you're a heterosexual male). You know you're captivated - no need to deny it. :-P
<seeing you begin to leave> Okay, okay, I'm just joshing ya, cripes...don't worry, I'm probably more pathetic than you realize. :-) At least I'm not so much that I try to appear sophisticated, right? <rereading above text> Awwww, damnit.
