
“The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me.”
Lestat
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
“The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me.”
Lestat
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
Source: Dona Rosita la soltera
[Powderly, Terence, 'The Path I Trod: The Autobiography of Terence V. Powderly, 1940, Columbia University Press, 9781163178164, https://archive.org/stream/pathitrodautobio00powdrich, 8]
“Ever since I alone have been aware of what happens to me, nothing happens to me.”
Desde que yo solo sé qué me sucede, no me sucede nada.
Voces (1943)
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Context: We humans have always defined ourselves by narration. What's happening today is that we're allowing multi-national corporations to tell our stories for us. The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies. Individualism is bad for business – though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. And yes, it's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism..
Statement before his fight with George Foreman (31 March 1973)