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Between fallen angels and primitive apes
Is where unending darkness makes the light shine so brightly

Name:

François Marie Arouet (avec pain grille)

Location:

Sheffield, United Kingdom

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voltaireontoast

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Terror in your eyes
Your heart is racing
For the innocence we lost will not return
We know we can't go on
But we're still holding on
Don't let me be the one
To drag you down

I am: A student of international politics, that pinko-lefto-commie-libertarian-do-gooder that everyone knows, British and cynically proud of it, a dirty northerner and definately proud of it, a European and reasonably proud of it, a caffine addict, far too patient, stranded in Mid-Wales and loving it, GOING TO CANADA, from Sheffield, steel city etc.

When they closed the foundries
and the mills
You could have taken
to the hills
But you stayed

I believe: in humanity. in equality. in freedom. in the almighty power of caffine. in tolerance. in nothing. in apathy. in patience. in understanding. in walking a hundred miles in another man's shoes. in optimistic cynicism (definition: constantly doubt things, including yourself, in order to reassert your conviction).

Might have given up the ghost
but instead
You took a deep breath
forged ahead
straight as a blade

I like: Sheffield, Aber, Moscow, Copenhagen, the North, Wales. Coffee, European lager (esp. Elephant Beer, Budvar and Kronenbourg seize cent soixante quatre), real ale, dark rum, good vodka neat, shitty vodka with coke, minty hot chocolate, Relentless. Stephen King, George Orwell, Lovecraft, Good Omens, Discworld, Dostoyevsky, War and Peace, Gogol, Jennifer Government, Harry Potter. Philosophy!love, politics!love, IR stick men, Zimbabwean politics (study of), Model UN-ing, post colonial politics, French politics, learning languages, revolutions, history of non-self-governing territories, having a strange memory for flags of the world, learning languages, especially Russian and French. Live comedy, Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Eddie Izzard, French films, Russian films, arty films, horror films - This is England, Delicatessen, Bon Voyage, Pan's Labryinth, The Wicker Man. Jeeves and Wooster, House, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Shameless, Mitchell and Webb, Black Books. Ash, Interpol, Manchester Orchestra, Rammstein, Rufus, Incubus, Alkaline Trio, Bob Marley, Ska.

_levicorpus,

alternate_levi,

dizzy_land, e2, NationStates. The letter u, metric measurement, the British Polite Gene, the grand political tradition of taking nothing seriously and putting them all in stupid wigs.

City of space
open skies and stars
Sheffield
Twinned with Mars

I know:

erin_giles - The mystical flatmate who introduced me to the wonders of
Torchwood and Doctor Who. Is a lazy Scottish English student, but I love her anyway. Hee.

i_andrew - post grad mate loitering somewhere down the hill. Made of Awesome.

roxsie_e - second year extraordinaire and the one who persuades me to go drinking. Points to her.

just_mihi Jazimunda. The most interesting person I've met at a bus stop.

gelise Online contingent. Just...well, six hundred flavours of awesome and I could go on, but won't. She knows she is. Or she better. *shakes fist*

bonnjie Three words: Batshit. Awesome. Kiwi.

Philosophy in life: Get drunk, lose keys, consider philosophical implications.

Lyrics/Poetry from Polaris by Ash and Roger McGough's poem on Sheffield. It's on display in the Winter Gardens. No, I can't remember it's name.

Memories:

2 entries

Interests:

2: [putting things in brackets], frijlish

Schools:

Meadowhead School - Sheffield, England - South Yorkshire, United Kingdom (2000 - 2005)
Sheffield High School - Sheffield, England - South Yorkshire, United Kingdom (2005 - 2007)
Aberystwyth University - Aberystwyth, Wales - Ceredigion, United Kingdom (2007 - present)
McGill University - Montréal, QC, Canada (2008 - present)

Friends:

	65:	35mm_muse, _0nlydreaming, alcoholit, alys_wonder, amerikim, artsbygels, bitter_faith, bonnjie, bons_nano, broken_lullaby, cailenbraern, calling_out, carebearkassi, charli_666_69, creases, dannahcannon, dark1977, dark_spryte, don_quixotic, draconis_blond, erin_giles, exsanguinatrix, fall_awaywithme, frelianprincess, fuckfuckfuck___, gelise, hangingfire, i_andrew, innocentsmith, just_mihi, king_of_dreads, ledbylove, mamorticia, matheryoo, mcrmaniac, medraxellion, meghann_vampy, mizzmoonyluver, morgabe333, musegaarid, n_nikolaevna, no_timewasters, pigulsky, poison_infrench, psychosomatic17, q_cubed, rex_futurus, rinnington, roxsie_e, saturdaysxchild, shinako_toko, skelly_r0x0r, tara_ruskaya, texmas, the_evil_duck42, toujours_rien, tout_que_jaime, until_it_fades, van_zetti, vendelina, viciousberries, voltaireontoast, word_never_said, youngnicola, z0ez0e
	43:	100_situations, __hpchallenge, _levicorpus, aber, ad_diction, alternate_levi, bad_rpers_suck, black_books, capslock_gov, come_daylight, deleterius, erised_apps, evanesco_elite, everything2, fanfic_luckydip, ff100_updates, fontaddicts, francophiles, handwritten_lj, houseepisodes, houseeps, housemd, hybrid_elite, hybrid_housecup, iconsucht, lancre, learn_russian, levicorpusooc, leviwarts, modelun, montreal, obscurus_elite, perpetua_nox, perpetua_ooc, piracy_ooc, potc_rate, raven_puff, russia_love, sheffield_uk, soviet__union, tearstolaughter, there_be_piracy, zombieloan