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Working title for 15 page paper: The Celebrity of Madness: Narcissism and Bipolar Disorder in the Life and Works of Byron / Wilde.

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LIFE: culte de soi meme (Cult of the Self: Celebrity)

Byron Wilde

Disorder: Bryon: Bipolar, predominately mania; Wilde: Narcissism (bipolar?)
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The former lead singer for Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, and the blue grass goddess, Allison Krauss, have joined voices to record a most incredible CD. Yup...that's it up there ^^^ Raising Sand. Oh my gosh, the places it takes me. Hehe...I need a man to hold me close and slow dance to Polly Come Home. And then he can just stay there cause I'll be needin' him again. Oh yeah.

Their voices really work together but it is the acoustic instruments that sing for me even more. There's a little ...

(An extract)

Scenes on a Train

They are the dreamers,
the waking sleepers
rocked into half-life
in this metal womb.
The doors close
setting the tone,
the sleepers settle
into their daily roles.

*
Eyes focussed on a point
beyond the window;
a girl with white headphones,
quiet eyes, sad smile.
Every day she listens
to the same song
over and over,
seeks

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It is raining! No, it's not that. It's that I had raked two huge piles of leaves as far as I could get them and was going to start dragging them, via a tarp, out to the front berm for pick-up on Monday. Man oh man. Now it will probably freeze, then snow, and there they will sit till spring. All the men in the neighborhood have leaf blowers and walk around showing them off.
The same thing happens in the winter. I'm out there shoveling snow with a shovel and the men all come out put-putting ...

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