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[greentea_fairy]

 Lyrical age "is the period of youth when a person is a mystery to himself and therefore exhausts himself in endless self-contemplation. Other people are merely mirrors in which he searches for his own significance and worth."

"Lyricism is a form of self-expression; it contains the narcissistic principle. A person becomes mature when he leaves his '

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[astygianelysium]

There's nothing I'd like to be less than a classicist.

What about you? Do you reject this notion of a 'broadly developed and mature personality' or embrace it wholeheartedly?

[greentea_fairy]

Obviously I like this because I AM stuck in the lyrical, narcissistic age. (Guess who else is stuck in that age?) I don't want to validate it. And like most [pseudo or not] intellectuals, I'll strive for what I am not.

It makes sense, doesn't it? Poetry is childish and self-centred (highly personal), and philosophy and theory are broad and developed (strives-to-be universal).

VOMIT

[greentea_fairy]

PS Have you read Kundera? He's not a classicist but not self-obsessed either.