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>be born
>I am born in a white small town in Rhode Island
>Providence
>father's a humble travel salesman
>has untreated syphilis
>he slowly went mad when I was in infancy
>ends up in the nuthouse
>mentally unstable mother raises me
>aunts contribute when she goes batshit crazy
>only person I have in life is grandfather
>taught me how to read, how to write
>encourages me to do so, in fact
>he is all I have
>grow up reading the works of great minds
>Edgar Allan Poe, Homer, Lord Dunsany
>what wonderful minds
>I looked up to them
>and in my own light, made abhorrent versions that I replicated from their work
>as terrible as my writings may be, they come from their inspiration
>look at works of astronomy that the great ancient Greeks peered at
>grandfather is a successful American buisnessman
>I am a white American; these are my people
>they inspired me immeasurably
>still, I lead a lonely existence
>mother told me often that I was "grotesque"
>I had to stay inside
>I could not expose myself
>and so I didn't
>I remained a robot and a lonesome misfit
