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davidcycleback"I am the son of a man and a woman, from I have been told. This astonishes me. I thought I was something more."
For what it's worth, that's my favorite quote from from Comte de Lautreamont, a 19th century French speaking Uruguayan writer who and is considered the first surrealist due to his iconic book Les Chants de Maldoror. Maldoror is something of a monster, sort of a damned figure, and he is the narrator. The book is heavy, written as a collage and considered corrosive even by today's social standards. What's interesting is that it was written by a apparently normal, about 22 year old college student who died soon after. The book was not discovered and published until years after he had died.