Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality
Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
Publisher Founding: March 1, 2014
Web Domain: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com
Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Journal: In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal
Journal Founding: August 2, 2012
Frequency: Three (3) Times Per Year
Review Status: Non-Peer-Reviewed
Access: Electronic/Digital & Open Access
Fees: None (Free)
Volume Numbering: 12
Issue Numbering: 1
Section: B
Theme Type: Idea
Theme Premise: “Outliers and Outsiders”
Theme Part: 29
Formal Sub-Theme: None.
Individual Publication Date: November 1, 2023
Issue Publication Date: January 1, 2024
Author(s): Richard May
Author(s) Bio: Richard May (“May-Tzu”/“MayTzu”/“Mayzi”) is a Member of the Mega Society based on a qualifying score on the Mega Test (before 1995) prior to the compromise of the Mega Test and Co-Editor of Noesis: The Journal of the Mega Society. In self-description, May states: “Not even forgotten in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), I’m an Amish yuppie, born near the rarified regions of Laputa, then and often, above suburban Boston. I’ve done occasional consulting and frequent Sisyphean shlepping. Kafka and Munch have been my therapists and allies. Occasionally I’ve strived to descend from the mists to attain the mythic orientation known as having one’s feet upon the Earth. An ailurophile and a cerebrotonic ectomorph, I write for beings which do not, and never will, exist — writings for no one. I’ve been awarded an M.A. degree, mirabile dictu, in the humanities/philosophy, and U.S. patent for a board game of possible interest to extraterrestrials. I’m a member of the Mega Society, the Omega Society and formerly of Mensa. I’m the founder of the Exa Society, the transfinite Aleph-3 Society and of the renowned Laputans Manqué. I’m a biographee in Who’s Who in the Brane World. My interests include the realization of the idea of humans as incomplete beings with the capacity to complete their own evolution by effecting a change in their being and consciousness. In a moment of presence to myself in inner silence, when I see Richard May’s non-being, ‘I’ am. You can meet me if you go to an empty room.” Some other resources includeStains Upon the Silence: something for no one, McGinnis Genealogy of Crown Point, New York: Hiram Porter McGinnis, Swines List, Solipsist Soliloquies, Board Game, Lulu blog, Memoir of a Non-Irish Non-Jew, and May-Tzu’s posterous.
Word Count: 287
Image Credit: Richard May.
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 2369–6885
*Please see the footnotes, bibliography, and citations, after the publication.*
Keywords: autobiographical, Creation, dead flowers, EMF, False Personality, life, May-Tzu, ontological, Richard May.
Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality
My most painful experience was coming home from work one night and finding myself unexpectedly dead, sprawled across the bed. In such a moment of attention one loses a lot of identifications. Don’t take your life personally. It doesn’t have anything to do with you.
I certainly don’t think I’ve been born yet. Sometimes I doubt that what religionists call the “Creation” has even taken place. I still sometimes hope to be born before I die. Perhaps it would be possible to rent a life and try it out on weekends?
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I’m a highly perceptive person, so I was quite disconcerted to discover about a week ago that I had actually been dead for more than six years. Apparently I never really noticed that had I died, because I was so distracted by sending myself e-mails, irradiating my brain with cell-phone EMF, having my Volvo tattooed and putting on I-shadow.
It’s really a life altering experience to suddenly learn that you have been dead for years. None of my closest friends noticed my passing either. Perhaps they had also deceased and were too busy making a living. I guess it’s never very clear these days.
Naturally I just continue to do everything as usual. Sometimes you don’t get serious about life until you’re dead. But maybe not right away even then. There’s really no need to hurry. Now I take a little more time to smell the dead flowers.
| At least I’m not an ontological wanna-be. It’s not that I wish that I had ever been, but occasionally for a moment I may wish that I wished that I had been. Nothing has really changed, since I died. In fact I haven’t noticed any difference at all. |
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American Medical Association (AMA 11th Edition): May R. Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality. November 2023; 12(1). http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/autobiographical-richard-may
American Psychological Association (APA 7th Edition): May, R. (2023, November 1). Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality. In-Sight Publishing. 12(1).
Brazilian National Standards (ABNT): MAY, R. Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality.In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, Fort Langley, v. 12, n. 1, 2023.
Chicago/Turabian, Author-Date (17th Edition): May, Richard. 2023. “Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality.” In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal 12, no. 1 (Winter). http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/autobiographical-richard-may.
Chicago/Turabian, Notes & Bibliography (17th Edition): May, R “Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality.” In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal 12, no. 1 (November 2023). http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/autobiographical-richard-may.
Harvard: May, R. (2023) ‘Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality’, In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, 12(1). <http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/autobiographical-richard-may>.
Harvard (Australian): May, R 2023, ‘Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality’, In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, <http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/autobiographical-richard-may>.
Modern Language Association (MLA, 9th Edition): May, Richard. “Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality.” In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vo.12, no. 1, 2023, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/autobiographical-richard-may.
Vancouver/ICMJE: Richard M. Autobiographical Sketch of Richard’s False Personality [Internet]. 2023 Nov; 12(1). Available from: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/autobiographical-richard-may.
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