The dialectic manifesto of Escargot:

I have too many ambitions but am not ambitious.

I have lived on three continents, am at home everywhere and belong nowhere.

I am no longer young but not yet old.

I need to live in the present (no choice about that), but would live 200 years ago or 200 years hence.

I am drawn to the futuristic, but pine for the antique. antique pine...

"Life is not about finding yourself, life is about inventing yourself."

[now you tell me...]