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I have been here before, and I have some degree of infamy at deadjournal, or so I like to think, in my more narcisstic moods...and you may know me there as wormwood.

You will know more of me by what I say of my life than what I say of myself, since the half-truths I tell about my own life and the hyperbole of my elaborations on the most minute of instances of my existance paint a much clearer picture of my person and my being than I could share with you here.

I like dark things, am fascinated with death and macabre poetry, and it is extremely apparant, I am told, that I don't get a great deal of sunlight at all. Perhaps I could be called a goth, but I'm not a goth, I persist in explaining, I'm just a gloomy, pale intellectual with a penchant for charcoal-coloured Victorian corsets, Beethoven, kretek cigarettes, and Swinburne's longer poems.

Mmmm. Anything else you might like not to know? Let me think. . . .

I'm very fond of snakes and of most cold-blooded animals, although I'm quite terrified of fish. My favourite colours are olive, sepia, black, claret, and grey. I have blue eyes and I like opiates considerably; I have too many scars, too few morals, and I like my vodka straight. I have strong bones but a rather frail constitution...I faint in hot water, develop atopic dermatitis when agitated, have herpes in my mouth and skin, and peptic ulcers.

I like eel sushi, and large, empty places, wastelands, oceans, Siberia, and the arctic regions. I love the autumn best of all.

I enjoy conversation, debate, and nasty, petty arguments. I'm generally courteous to those who are courteous to me, and rarely attack anyone without cause. I like to talk to anyone who shares my interests.

Be forewarned, however, that I do not always make pleasant company: I am self-centered, elitist, esoteric, manipulative, drug-addicted, deceptive, militantly atheistic, megolomaniacal, cynical, cruel, perfectionistic, and more than a little bit mad at times. But then, you must be mad, too, or you wouldn't even be here.

You probably hate me already. But do come in, won't you? I've just finished poisoning the tea.

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