Quote for Today: Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same …
Quote for Today: Lindsay Hill
And he came to understand that the burial of the broken wasn’t eccentric — this was what people did every day, stuffing their brokenness down, pushing it down, smoothing the …
Quote for Today: Frida Kahlo
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like …
Quote for Today: Friedrich Nietzsche
A man has no ears for that which he cannot access through experience. To take an extreme case, suppose a book contains only incidents which lie outside the range of …
Quote for Today: Tom Waits
My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. …
Outside the Mainstream: My Robot Friend
Outsider music is, like outsider art, made by people who are self taught and don’t try to fit in with the mainstream. Meet My Robot Friend, quirky and clever. You …
Quote for Today: H.P. Lovecraft
For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known …
Wondrous and Disturbed: In the Realms of the Unreal
We read everyday of outsiders who become violent. Here is the story of an outsider who found another way: art. When Henry Darger passed away in 1973 at the age …
Quote for Today: Jo Walton
I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s …
The Outsider as a Mirror: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Outsiders inspire fear and enchantment. What does our reaction to those who are different say about us and our beliefs? Literature and film contain shining examples of outsiders, but I …