User:Edwardalmandalida
Born in 1922, Edward Alman Augustine Ferdinand de Guggenheim Dalída is a famed artist, writer, thinker and philosopher, more commonly referred to simply as Edward Alman Dalída. He is widely known for helping define the coarse of art and literature in both the Modernist and Postmodernist tradition, across various movements and medias, and is currently at work as part of the Eurasian Meaningless Movement[1] attempting to craft a definitive definition of the Postpostmodern, which is presumed by Dalída to overtake Postmodernism within days of his inventing it[2]. His best known painting “The Birth of Penis” was completed in 1944, and his best known short story “The Rise of the Sun Over the Fallen House of Buster Moments After Waking from a Dream of My Grandmother’s Ravenous Caterpillar” was completed in 1968.
The bizarre emotional affect said to characterize Dalída’s work no matter the media, style or time period are said to result from his extreme bipolar disorder, which many even believe to be multiple personality disorder. Whatever the cause, Dalída’s eccentric personality is characterized by his constant fluctuations between “narcissism, neurosis and nonsense” and in his work by similar fluctuations between the sublime, the macabre and the totally nonsensical, with increasing tendency towards the latter. Dalída is also notorious for his many phobias, especially that of caterpillars, which have come to be a recurring symbol in his work. His current project to define Postpostmodernism which is still in the works will consist totally of blog posts and though it is still in its infant stages, Dalída believes it to be the greatest achievement of his carrier.
Selected Works:[edit]
Paintings:
1939 Self Portrait with Soap
1944 The Birth of Penis
1951 The Persistence of the Insistence of Indifference
1965 Nudes Assaulting an Escalator
1974 My Wife Naked on a Plate
1981 Neptune Devouring his Chalupa
1989 The Decomposition of the Persistence of the Insistence of Indifference
1997 The Last Brunch
2005 The Signified of the Persistence of the Insistence of the Signifier of Indifference
Short Stories:
1941 The Tattle-Tale Bladder
1968 The Rise of the Sun Over the Fallen House of Buster Moments After Waking from a Dream of My Grandmother’s Ravenous Caterpillar
1984 The Obnoxiously Repetitive Black Bird
1995 The Crimson Acronym
Poems:
1947 Buzz-Buzz-Buzz - Yee-ha - I’m Dead
1966 The Fountain
1999 Sonnet Number 3.1415926
2006 The Song of MySpace
Cyber Narratives:
1995 Clockwork Boy
2004 Lonely Cultist Stalker 15
Famous Quotes:[edit]
I am defined by two sets of three n’s: “narcissism, neurosis and nonsense” and “naughty, naughty, naughty!”
I make impossible contradictions against myself, therefore I am.
Buzz-buzz-buzz - Yee-ha - I’m dead.
I hate knowing that I’m so much better than everyone else. Sometimes it makes me feel conceited.
Y2K was not the end of the world and 2012 will not be the end of the world, because the end of the world has already been decided. It simply must be the day that I die, because everything I do becomes fashionable, therefore when I die so will everyone else. I sincerely hope the world will die when I die and if I am wrong about this then I apologize, for who would want to live in a world without me? If this is mankind’s eternal damnation then its sins must be truly great.
There are simply and absolutely no absolutes, purities or complete absences. There are zero zeros. The truth only is infinite contradiction and meaninglessness is the one true meaning.
People don’t take being silly seriously enough.
Death is as meaningless as life, it will release me from meaningless into more meaningless and will mean nothing.
References
1http://www.thebigplot.net/
2http://thebigunknown.pbwiki.com/Edward-Alman-Dal%C3%ADda