I'm fixated on this website I joined called, Goodreads.com. It's like Facebook for smart people and amazon without money. Obsession is a hereditary trait (cough cough Brian Powers has 293 books) as I find myself scanning bookstore windows thinking, "I've read this book...but have I put it on Goodreads? Rated it? Do I remember it well enough to judge it?"
If there was anyway to out geek myself on a already geeky blog I just did.
Speaking of which I dove into this new book: Stiff, The curious Lives of Human Cadeavors. Mary Roach is a remarkable writer. The subject combines the bio ethics of body donation, anatomy, and humor (you'd have to be in that field). She also discusses the push and pull between the objectification and personification of the body as a means of coping. When does it cease to be real? When dos anyone stop being a person? I find myself doing that here- when someone is an ass to me I write off their existence because I can afford to do that- there are so many people that I can't be bogged down by Brenna haters and then there is the latter- if a person I meet is really inquizitive to me and kind I crown them with a potential friend label. The power of imagination.
The book is graphic at parts but my curiosity has trumped my weak stomach, so it goes. It got me thinking at what it means to be alive, dead, alive and in conjuring up notions of the undead I've decided I am a ghost of Edinburgh. I am haunting Edinburgh instead of inhabiting it- I tread lightly in whatever I do, where ever I go and in doing so am presented with an autonomy which I have never known.I have no address, a temporary library card/work visa/job, merely aquaintainces, and hardly the finances to aquire any good that would I would associate with being here. A ghosts purpose is to discover why they are not alive and what they need to do to make peace. I fancy being a ghost- a happy one like Casper.
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I would like to point out that I started the Good Reads craze- holler back, holler front.
Living abroad brings up all kinds of issues of belonging, ethnicity,and nationality. It's a good way to explore, Casper. Sometimes you look at life through a microscope, but other times a telescope gives you a better view. In either case, your vision will be clearer. Ma.
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