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Solipsist

by Henry Rollins · 1998 · 160 pages

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"I saw the word Solipsist while reading the dictionary in 1993. I was living

in NYC at the time and the word defined how the city made me feel. I worked

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on this book in several cities all over the world until 1996. The writing is

obsessive and claustrophobic. To be solipsistic is to totally realize the ego

and the nightmare of utter self-possession. I went for it and it swallowed me

whole." —Henry Rollins

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Subject
philosophymemoir
Themes
music
Setting
1990s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 160 pages
Form
poetryshort stories

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