Explain myself? I'm not sure I can.
Jan. 15th, 2011 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerHuman beings, looked at from the outside, are impossibly complex multi-dimensional shapes. Like Douglas Hofstadter's G-E-B solid, they show different things from different angles, and which way you look at them is up to you.
From one angle, I'm the son of my parents, and I carry their heredity, London and the Channel Islands coming together in me.
From another, I'm the product of my culture, born and raised in England and steeped in the landscape (the bits that didn't make me sneeze, wheeze and itch, anyway) and the history and art of my land.
From another, I've been shaped by my experiences, fifty-five years of good and bad knocking off my rough edges and occasionally carving divots out of me to make more.
EDIT: from another, I'm the bastard offspring of Mike Oldfield and Stephen Fry, with many of the faults and perhaps a pale shadow of the talents of both.
And from another, possibly, I'm a Sagittarian, born in the year of the Ram (or the Sheep or the Goat, depending which books you read).
There's far too much in any human being, even me, to take in all in one go. We're each of us a lifetime's work just to study the surface, and that's before you even start on the insides. And it's as much of a job for us ourselves as it is for anyone else.
So I think there's room for astrology, if you fancy it. If you don't, of course, there's no need.
From one angle, I'm the son of my parents, and I carry their heredity, London and the Channel Islands coming together in me.
From another, I'm the product of my culture, born and raised in England and steeped in the landscape (the bits that didn't make me sneeze, wheeze and itch, anyway) and the history and art of my land.
From another, I've been shaped by my experiences, fifty-five years of good and bad knocking off my rough edges and occasionally carving divots out of me to make more.
EDIT: from another, I'm the bastard offspring of Mike Oldfield and Stephen Fry, with many of the faults and perhaps a pale shadow of the talents of both.
And from another, possibly, I'm a Sagittarian, born in the year of the Ram (or the Sheep or the Goat, depending which books you read).
There's far too much in any human being, even me, to take in all in one go. We're each of us a lifetime's work just to study the surface, and that's before you even start on the insides. And it's as much of a job for us ourselves as it is for anyone else.
So I think there's room for astrology, if you fancy it. If you don't, of course, there's no need.