About the Author
I'm twenty-five (born August 31, 1983), in college (at a four-year school—my education is currently my sole occupation other than writing for fun), mildly autistic (I have Asperger syndrome - look it up), and I write. It's what I want to do for a living. I haven't even settled on that yet.
I write for myriad reasons. Because I like it, because it's relaxing, because I have thoughts that are easier to deal with once I can look at them in black and white.
The Chinese have a saying: "Pick a job you love; you'll never work a day in your life."
And it's true.
If you like what I write, tell me. If you don't, tell me what I can do better.
I'm a Free Will Baptist, politically conservative, libertarian on economic and some legal issues (I believe that drug addiction should be treated, not punished), and rather firm in my convictions.
If that's a problem for you, well, I'm sorry.
Wise Quotes:
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt
"To seek for truths in history... distinctly is not to indulge in dreamy visions of unborn ages, or to predict the inevitability of some political domination. Rather, the truths of history, the real meanings, are to be discovered in what history can teach us about the framework of the Logos, if you will: about the significance of human existence: about the splendor and the misery of our condition. In this inquiry, there must be joined with the historical discipline certain insights of philosophy and psychology. For historical consciousness necessarily is entwined with the mystery of personal consciousness." --Russell Kirk
Literature exists to create memories so true and important that we allow them to become part of ourselves, shaping our future actions because we remember that once someone we admired did this, and someone we hated and feared did that.
Literature matters only to the degree that it shapes and changes human behavior by making the audience wish to be better because they read it.
It becomes importantly bad only to the degree that it entices the audience to revel in actions and memories that debase the culture that embraces it.
Next to that, questions of how one literary work influences other literary works, or how the manner of writing measures up to the tastes of some elite group are so trivial that you marvel that someone who went to college could ever think they mattered more.
--Orson Scott Card