My Life Story

My life has been a relatively strange one, full of identity shifts and odd relationships. People tell me that I should write my "Life Story". Sofie says, "Don't do it. Let someone else make the movie." Now I am learning a new web technology, Joomla, which is a content management and delivery system for the web. Maybe creating a site telling my life story on there would be a good way to do it. I would include code so that none of the pages would be spidered and then some clues places if anyone needed to find it. That's one idea. Oh, I'm full of ideas, I am.

The reason this came to mind is that yesterday I was reading a review about Michel de Montaigne in The New Yorker. It said that one day, at age 38, he just turned his back on everything and spent the rest of his life in his office with his books writing about everything that came to his mind, for himself. Much of his work is introspective, and he noted how fluid human opinion is, how fickle our attitudes, how malleable our outlook. It reminded me of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet in which the protagonist offers all these pithy, passionate, authoritative declarations on the nature of man, woman, humanity - declarations which sometimes contradict one another depending on how his life is going.