spirit_thievery pipedream read about that in a literature essay about jamaica kincaid's writing. isn't it a lovely phrase? spirit thief, give it back...you steal my essence, i breathe you in 030923 ... pipedream of course,the phrase originally has negative connotations, but its so pretty that i don't like thinking of it in context of robbing identity and soul by a colonist. 030923 ... Dafremen How about by an ecopolitical system? Does it have negative connotations if it involves the slow-steady rape and erasure of one's spirit, by a system that revolves around greed? 030923 ... pipedream that's exactly what it is, in fact...isn't it a shame? 030923 ... unhinged heroin_doll blather_oracle even_you couldn't stop me from tenaciously clinging 110317 what's it to you? who go blather from