Status Updates From Hell of Solitude: Selected ...

Pity the self that cannot self-deceive.
Can someone deceive it for me, please?
I am not a rose-eating dog,
but a gilded owl with daytime vision.

What is more fascinating, however, is something the man's mother in Japan related to me. She said: 'Growing up, that boy of mine learned everything there was to know about Japanese. That's why he moved to the West, where they have words that aren't in our dictionary."