Surreptitious Student of Life "A true poet does not bother to be poetical, Nor does a nursery gardener perfume his roses." Jean Cocteau You are a surreptitious C student of life first thing hummer of Nietzsche emotional alien suicidal bug Yellow Peril: neo-American way over your head in love and fiction self-overrated Mama's boy sentimentalist inveterately romantic stranger in strange land forever lonely Yet always Trust the thrust of your heart's desires Adapted from Chang-Rae Lee, a Korean-American Roberto Wissai/NKBa' January 30, 2012