VictorValmore - Writer & Tax Consultant

              I thought we were collecting rose petals

          All the while you plucked dragons' scales             

               From the loamy soil of a lost life

                                                  "The Kampongs Are Gone"

What I Do

   I earn my living  by preparing income tax returns for individuals and businesses.  For that I work in an office and return to the solitude of my home at the end of the day to live a quiet life much like my favorite author Fernando Pessoa:

 "To live a dispassionate and cultured life in the open air of ideas, reading, dreaming and thinking of writing - a life so slow it constantly verges on tedium, but pondered enough never to find itself there.  To live this life far from emotions and thought, living it only in the thought of emotions and in the emotion of thoughts.  To goldenly stagnate in the sun, like a murky pond surrounded by flowers.  To possess, in the shade, that nobility of spirit that makes no demands on life.  To be in the whirl of the worlds like dust of flowers, sailing through the afternoon air on an unknown wind and falling, in the torpor of dusk, wherever it falls, lost among larger things.  To be this with a sure understanding, neither happy nor sad, grateful to the sun for its brilliance and to the stars for their remoteness.  To be no more, have no more, want no more..."

                     The Book of Disquiet, A Factless Autobiography, para. 45

     SOMETHING COOL I READ

   Toward dusk, the black birds  descend, millions of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby.  The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like dendrites of the Nervous System fattening, deep in twittering nerve-dusk, in preparation for some important message....

  Thomas Pynchon - "Gravity's Rainbow"

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