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    Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author

    "Thinking About It Again, And Again, And Again": How Rumination May Link Art And Mental Illness

    In Defense of Depression
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    Image of ItchykooParker ItchykooParker
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    Oh for fuck's sake, here we go again. I was hoping I could read this post WITHOUT having to wade through endless Gilbert hate. Seems I was wrong.


    Seriously, there's a lot of hate going on in here lately.

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    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    I could live up to even more expectations, if I were being paid enough. I'm doign just well enough right now to do as well as I am, if you get my drift.

    As Dali said, you can measure an artist's worth in gold.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    My mystical fairy juice comes in fat little jugs that say "CARLO ROSSI" on them.
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    Image of Wit is periodically disensouled Wit is periodically disensouled
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    Dear Ms. Gilbert:


    Fairies bite. They also steal souls and children (See "Thomas the Rhymer," "Tam Lin," "The Ballad of Sir Orfeo," or "Der Erlkonig"). Please think twice before consuming mystical potables, as well, as this has been directly linked to the aforesaid disensoulment, loss of time, as well as embiggening, ensmallment, or, in certain circumstances (mainly pertaining to Welsh spirits) forays into animal transformations and bestiality.

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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    02/09/09

    @Wit: PS: Don't fall asleep under trees, ESPECIALLY if you're a virgin. Just... bad things happen...
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    Image of Wit is periodically disensouled Wit is periodically disensouled
    02/09/09

    @LaComtesse: Excellent point. (Particularly the grafted ones.) Also, don't follow white animals or join strange people having parties.
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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    02/09/09

    @Wit: and remember not only will it take nine years to get back to reality should you meet with the fairies but you will only manage this if you happen to have a very resourceful girlfriend who is prepared to fight for your return. (See Tam Lin again).
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    02/09/09

    @Wit: Everyone thinks those signs with deer on it are for deer crossing. It's really to warn people not to hit a white hind...
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    02/09/09

    @LaComtesse: @emilyanne: I'm friending you both over this. I am overjoyed (o'erjoyed?) by the amount of fairy literature nerddom here. It makes my heart happy.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    Whenever someone suggests we go back to a pre-Renaissance attitude about ANYTHING, I think that person should take a good long look in the mirror.
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    Image of Wit is periodically disensouled Wit is periodically disensouled
    02/09/09

    @LaComtesse: Or, you know, actually read pre-Renaissance writings on the matter that don't come through a Victorian filter. Or, worse, were processed through a contemporary "New Age" filter after the Victorian one.
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    Image of argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw? argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    whoa, whoa, whoa... does anyone else have a problem with this?


    um, i kind of take offense at the suggestion that i'm not responsible for creating MY art that i bust my ass every day to make...


    any other creative peoples out there who feel me?


    i mean, in my experience, making art (and i'm sure other creative endeavors fall under this heading too) is a lot of fucking work. divine inspiration and muses are a fun, romantic notion, and i can definitely attribute some successes to happy accidents, but really... hard work and dedication is the 'secret' to creativity in the long term. like anything else, you just have to keep at it.


    i know that the creative process is intensely personal, and that no two people probably approach creating their art (whatever it may be) in the same way. i just feel like by saying this, by phrasing it the way she has, she's discounting the hard work and sacrifices of a lot of talented, devoted people.

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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    02/09/09

    @argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?: I have a feeling that my brother, an artist and a hard-working one, would firmly agree with you.
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    Image of Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    yes, geniuses HAVE been using outside sources for inspiration and release from the pressures of existence. They are called drugs, alcohol, sex, nature, and (for some) faith.


    What the eff is she talking about?

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    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    02/09/09

    @Beets.Go.On: That made me laugh
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    Image of pandorasmittens pandorasmittens
    02/09/09

    @Beets.Go.On: My guess is that it's some strange, nonsensical, and horribly untimely attempt to curtail the criticism many have over Eat, Pray, Love>/i>. She's so smart that she should be allowed to fail like the rest of us, even though the rest of us are doing something horribly wrong by not listening to the genius fairies of inspiration. My guess is that the sound of busy city streets, angry bosses, and construction jackhammers are less conducive to fairy listening than a decadent voyage across Europe.
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    Image of Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
    02/09/09

    @pandorasmittens: places with busy city streets and jackhammers are places where it's substantially easier to find REAL inspiration fairies in the form of shrooms, acid and sexy times.


    I swear to God, Oakland turned into Candy land the other night and I when I came down, wrote half a novel.

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    02/09/09

    @hollygirl: I am glad :D
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    Image of Uncommon Whore Uncommon Whore
    02/09/09

    @Beets.Go.On: Good list, but I think depression deserves a spot right there next to drugs and alcohol.
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    Image of Chuck Basketcase Chuck Basketcase
    02/09/09

    @pandorasmittens: Um, have you read the book or are you criticizing it over reputation? I ask as I wouldn't describe it as a "decadent voyage across Europe." She goes to three places: Italy, India, and Bali.
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    Image of Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
    02/09/09

    @Uncommon Whore: does depression count as an outside source, though?
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    02/09/09

    @l8rsk8r: I think you're missing the point of her comment, which is not about geography, but general decadence and Goop-style detachment from reality.
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    Image of Chuck Basketcase Chuck Basketcase
    02/09/09

    @Beets.Go.On: But how do you know about its decadence or detachment if you haven't actually read it? I think you've got to actually read the thing if you're going to hate on it, that's all.
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    02/09/09

    @l8rsk8r: My original comment was not about the book, it was about the quote above. I read part of EPL, but couldn't finish it, because it WAS an awful display of detached, unrealistic decadence. I can't speak for Pandora, but I can identify with the truth of her comment.
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    Don't worry honey, nobody thinks you're a genius.
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    Image of Saltine Saltine
    02/09/09

    @J.D.Regent: YEa thats what really bothers me, she is implying that she herself is a genius. Sorry but genius is one of those titles, like maverick, that can only be placed on you by others. Otherwise you just sound like a douchecanoe.
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    Image of gangey gangey
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    @LittleNemo: Working title: Whine, Self-indulge, Lecture.
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    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    "Mystical fairy juice" reeks of faux New Age religiousity because that is what Ms. Gilbert does best.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    She really is rather shameless.
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    Image of pandorasmittens pandorasmittens
    02/09/09

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: Especially since her own mystical fairy juice consisted of a lucrative book deal and expenses paid "voyage to find herself".
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    02/09/09

    @pandorasmittens: Yes. I can haz? God, I could be so frakking creative with a nice vacation and plenty of time to write.
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    Image of pandorasmittens pandorasmittens
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    "on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life, which you pass along when you're finished to somebody else"


    My acid trips are not for sharing, thank you very much.

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    Image of St. Francis of a Sissy St. Francis of a Sissy
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    And my recession special white bean soup is mystical farty juice.
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    02/09/09

    @St. Francis of a Sissy: Let those bad boys rip, I say.
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    Image of kontrolle kontrolle
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    So, she's talking about absinthe, right?
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    Image of Saltine Saltine
    02/09/09

    @kontrolle: Well it is the green fairy
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    Image of YourScreenplaySucks YourScreenplaySucks
    02/09/09

    In reply to Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
    allowing somebody ... to believe that he or she is ... the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, internal mystery is just like a smidge of too much responsibility to put on one fragile human psyche


    Um, speak for yourself Lizzy. I've been waiting for years to be worshipped as a deity of creation.

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