Literature & Songs

Dreamland
by Edgar Allen Poe

By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule-
From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE- out of TIME.
Bottomless vales and boundless floods,
And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,
With forms that no man can discover
For the tears that drip all over;
Mountains toppling evermore
Into seas without a shore;
Seas that restlessly aspire,
Surging, unto skies of fire;
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters- lone and dead,-
Their still waters- still and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily.
By the lakes that thus outspread
Their lone waters, lone and dead,-
Their sad waters, sad and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily,-
By the mountains- near the river
Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,-
By the grey woods,- by the swamp
Where the toad and the newt encamp-
By the dismal tarns and pools
Where dwell the Ghouls,-
By each spot the most unholy-
In each nook most melancholy-
There the traveller meets aghast
Sheeted Memories of the Past-
Shrouded forms that start and sigh
As they pass the wanderer by-
White-robed forms of friends long given,
In agony, to the Earth- and Heaven.
For the heart whose woes are legion
'Tis a peaceful, soothing region-
For the spirit that walks in shadow
'Tis- oh, 'tis an Eldorado!
But the traveller, travelling through it,
May not- dare not openly view it!
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have wandered home but newly
From this ultimate dim Thule.


"According to self-awareness theory, seeing
oneself on videotape induces a state of self-focused attention,
which heightens awareness of discrepancies between what one believes
one is like and what one wishes one were like. The self-focused
state leads to a drop in self-evaluation because attention is focused on
one's failure to meet internal standards. Thus, the general positivity
bias should be reduced or eliminated when subjects evaluate their
behavior on videotape. Self-awareness theory also predicts that selffocused
attentioD will improve the corre.spondence between selfreports
and behavior, implying more accurate self-perception"
http://www.simine.com/240/readings/Robins_and_John_(10).pdf

Books:
You Dont Know Me by David Klass

"I am afraid as I walk to school. Every time I see a member of the secret sorority of pretty fourteen-year-old girls I look the other way.
I walk past Billy Beezer’s house and see no sign of him. Besides his being suspended and grounded, it would not surprise me if Mr. and Mrs. Beezer have also chained him up in the basement. They have high hopes for their young Beezer. They believe that he will graduate first in his class from our anti-school, go to Harvard, become President, and also discover a cure for old age."

Who Are You?: 101 ways of seeing yourself by Malcolm Godwin

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult

"This is how it feels when you realize your child is missing: The pit of your stomach freezes fast, while your legs go to jelly. There's one single, blue-bass thud of your heart. The shape of her name, sharp as metal filings, gets caught between your teeth even as you try to force it out in a shout. Fear breathes like a monster into your ear: Where did I see her last? Would she have wandered away? Who could have taken her? And then, finally, your throat seals shut, as you swallow the fact that you've made a mistake you will never be able to fix."

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

"Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure -- a room half the kids in Sterling High would have given their right arm to enter -- but it was also a room from which there really wasn't an escape. Either Josie was someone she didn't want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted."

Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer
I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont
The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Self-Love by Robert H. Schuller
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb




Songs:
So what by Pink
Anna's Song by Silverchair
Everybody's Fool by Evanescence
Innocent by Our Lady Peace
Stupid Girls by Pink
Don't Let Me Get Me by Pink
Bleed Like Me by Garbage
One Girl Revolution by Superchick
Get Up by Superchick
Hero by Superchick
Skinny by Filter