The Liquidity Of Life (2)

'I feel very transparent in my self
I’m more of an observer.
I’m interested in what’s going on.
I’m not sure that I really have a personality.
Some people think I do have a personality.
I have a personality when I am with certain people
 — but when I’m not with them I don’t have that personality.
I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water'.
- Joyce Carol Oates

When A Symbol Is More Than An Invention

'Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols 

in which to invest passion and authority, 

then forgets that symbols are inventions.'

-Joyce Carol Oates