L. Norris

Interests: Literary Theory, Metaphysics, Meditation, Linguistics, Semantics, Number Theory, Physics, Language, Veganism, Aesthetics, Metaliterature, Russian Literature, Yoga, Perfection.

Favorite Reads: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Anna Karenina, King Lear, Ulysses, Bleak House, Pale Fire, Dead Souls, The Unnamed, Swann's Way, Murphy, The Defense, V., Speak Memory, Eugene Onegin, Time's Arrow, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metamorphosis.

About Me: Quite interestingly the contents of my bag can be divided into three categories: psuedospiritual, egoist gibberish, and temporal q & a. A critical thinker would note that the first two categories have no distinguishing characteristics. Is Will to Power one or the other? Kinbote�s ranting commentary? I have no good answer, but in the example of Pale Fire the poem is the (pseudo)spiritual treatise and the commentary is the egoist nonsense. With the exception of the length, Anna Karenina has no egoism to pout about, so clearly there is a division, the division itself merely isn�t clear.

Marked in the category of egoist gibberish is Ecce Homo, Pale Fire, The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, The Birth of Tragedy, and Beyond Good and Evil. I have left only Anna Karenina in the category of psuedospiritual. Temporal q & a is a stable sitting medium between the two, Ada or Ardor and Time�s Arrow. In other words: backwards and forewords. It is also interesting to note that while Amis rewinds the tape for those egoist types, Nabokov merely winces at the screeching buzz and turns the tape off�and life continues. That is possibly the best literary summary of Van Veen�s The Texture of Time I have ever heard, and its excellence is asserted in knowing I have nothing to compare it to. Great is defined primarily in originality, excellence is second to that.

My aspirations can be defined within a functioning relationship between all three of these subjects: I desire a thorough understanding of the universe, complete in all tenses. After that, a philosophical prognosis on the condition and potentiality of mankind�cited and typed in times new roman double spaced twelve point font with the page number printed in the top right corner. Then, absolutely perfect literary skills: as a scribble or scribe. An infinitely large library complete with these �books� God has, opening and closing, I�d like a look. The Original of Laura is to be on my shelves as well. A bit of muscle tone would do some blubber-wonder good, give me something to flex. I aspire to have some biceps, triceps, bipeds (?), and tricycles (?!?).

I have devoted myself currently to reading all of Nietzsche�s primary work, completing the composition of a collection of thirty-thousand words of short story, completing my first novel: The Spiral of Time�s Jab, touching up three essays for submission into complementary undergrad journals (one on Nabokov, one on Kafka, and one on Joyce), a fourth on an aesthetic interpretation of Nietzschian philosophy in the near future, ongoing inquiry and analysis with J. G., understanding the Universe.

Regarding the elusion of �About Me�: syntax.