Robert Seth Vorisek:
CLASS OF 1975
Paramus High SchoolClass of 1975
Paramus, NJ
Robert Seth's Story
Robert is from Paramus, New Jersey. He is single. His schools include Paramus High School. Class of '75. He later attended Rutgers University - College Avenue Campus (was graduated with a Degree in Physical Anthropology Major, and English Literature, Music History Minors), Class of '79. He lives in Seattle, having moved there in 1997 after living in NYC for 16 years. He lives on Medical Disability (SSDI) and works as a writer, trying to get published..
Robert's interests include (in no particular order): Stephen King's IT and The Body, Clive Barker's Jericho, Writing, Reading, pairs ice stating, Men's Olympic Diving, New York Yankees, Greg Louganis, Rafael Nadal, Dan Miller. Music he likes includes Classical, Opera, Steve Grand, Freddie Mercury, John Barrowman Official. Books he likes include: Call Me By Your Name, Two Boys, At Swim, James Joyce'Âs The Dead, Being Gay Becoming Gray - With Passion, Beauty and a Sense of Adventure, Sci Fi. Movies he likes include: ALIEN, Nightbreed, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Uninvited, Cabin in the Woods, Serenity, MOON, Days of Heaven and The Tree of Life. TV shows he likes include The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Firefly, Once Upon a Time, Cold Justice, NCIS: New Orleans, The Big Bang Theory, American Horror Story (all seasons).
One of Robert's favorite quotes is:
"You've got to climb Mt. Everest
to reach the valley of the dolls."
--Jacqueline Susann, 1966
"...On a sheep-cropped knoll under a clump of elms we ate the strawberries and drank the wine -- as Sebastian had promised, they were delicious together -- and we lit fat, Turkish cigarettes and lay on our back, Sebastian's eyes on the leaves above him, mine on his profile, while the blue-grey smoke rose, untroubled by any wind, to the blue-green shadows of foliage, and the sweet scent of the tobacco merged with the sweet summer scents around us and the fumes of the sweet, golden wine seemed to lift us a finger's breadth above the turf and hold us suspended.
"'Just the place to bury a crock of golf,' said Sebastian. 'I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.'"
--Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1944
"Love requires Sharing.
Sharing requires Struggle.
Struggle requires Faith.
Faith requires Love."
--stitched onto Paul Burke's AIDS panel,
NYC/Philadelphia, 1980's
"I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàT.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph)
"As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off."
--Pedro Zamora, 2/29/72 - 11/11/94
ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂA friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ
-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
-- Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851
"The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it."
-- Claude LÃÂÃÂÃÂévi-Strauss, 1955
"Bell crickets may cry until they can cry no more
but not so for me,
for all through the endless night my tars will fall on and on."
-- Murasaki Shikibu, "The Tale of Genji"
"And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have
no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have
no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Through they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion."
-- Dylan Thomas, 1936
"There is a moment just before
a dog vomits when its stomach
heaves dry, pumping what's deep
inside the belly to the mouth.
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u are fast you can grab
her by the collar and shove her
out the door, avoid the slimy bile,
hunks of half chewed food
from landing on the floor.
You must be quick, decisive,
controlled, and if you miss
the cue and the dog erupts
en route, you must forgive
her quickly and give yourself
to scrubbing up the mess.
Most of what I have learned
in life leads back to this."
-- "The Meaning of Life" by Nancy Fitzgerald
ÃÂÃÂÃÂé Poetry Harbor, 2001
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàWilliam Shakespeare, The Tempest,
Act 4, scene 1, 148ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ158
"All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
-- Chief SiÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂahl, 1786 ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂà1866
(Anglicized pronunciation of the Duwamish in the Lushootseed dialect. Also called Chief Sealth, Chief Seattle)
"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work.
Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it."
-- Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
"How boundless the cleared sky of Samadhi!
How transparent the perfect moonlight of the Fourfold Wisdom!
At this moment what more need we seek?
As the Truth eternally reveals itself,
This very place is the Lotus Land of Purity,
This very body is the Body of the Buddha."
-- Song of Meditation, Hakuin Ekaku Zenji
"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed - and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split cloud - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouted wind along and flung
My Eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, and the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifted mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God."
-- Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, 1941
"The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager sail thou for, to seek and find."
-- Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass, 1900
ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂWe donÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂt always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanlyÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂas if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to EarthÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂthe same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ
-- John Irving, Last Night In Twisted River, 2009
"'Tis ye, 'tis your estrangÃÂÃÂÃÂèd faces,
That miss the many-splendored thing."
-- Francis Thompson, 1859 - 1907
"We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun, - a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal."
-- John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂExit, pursued by a bear.ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ
--stage direction, "The Winter's Tale,"
William Shakespeare, 1611
"...whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good . . . whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed . . . Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness."
-- Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, 1959
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto!"
-- Patricia Neal, "The Day The Earth Stood Still", 1951".
More about Robert:
"Ex-New Yorker now living in Seattle and am a writer waiting for a break.
Look me square in the eye and you'll see all you EVER need to know. I do not lie. Can't: my face blushes like a teen girl caught with her hand in the cookie-jar!
I have a dog and a cat, and they get long as well as you'd think a dog and a cat get along (HINT: they both think they're 2-year-old puppies). I have been living with AIDS for38 years and am in good health, 6'0", 170 lbs.
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