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Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

There's tinkling from the piano in the corner, fireflies at the window, and girl, some ghosts floating past. What have you gone and done now?

I said "No, I like it, I like it, it's good."
She said "You like it now,
But you'll learn to love it later."

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

Same. This is a good thing done well.

Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

The thing is, it's impossible. I mean, people sort of tried, but there was too much history, and you'd need some sort of critical mass to get it moving. Like, some people who you really cared about that you could connect with again, but not have it be weird.

Ha. I know. I'm going to play Orson Scott Card for a minute, and you'll have to suspend disbelief, because this is sci-fi and fantasy and all.

Suppose there's this new character. She's got to come out of nowhere. No baggage, no unresolved issues. Just have her spring form Zeus' forehead or something. Now, nobody knows her, but she stumbles across the, hmmm, not really ruins, and not just a shell, but let's say the empty set where this great years-long play was staged. It was a really good run, and there was a lot of audience participation.

So she finds this place, and FOR NO DISCERNIBLE REASON goes back and seems to read everything. Oh, and by the way, she's probably pretty busy in her own life, and she's reading it in a non-native language, but she really, really likes the place, okay? She just does. And she's a keener, so she starts compiling lists of actors who had the most lines or who had strong impact on the course of events.

And then -- I know, but just go with it, it's a story -- she tracks down a bunch of old emails and stuff for the actors, and she composes this super sweet and charming email, and she sends it. In it she asks people to send it on.

And, oh! She has to write it in such a way that people can tell she loves this things that they maybe once loved, and she's gone back through all the production notes, and ... then she waits.

Yeah, nothing's gonna happen, right? It's fiction, but come on.

[Big Grin]

Posted by PanaceaSanans (Member # 13395) on :

This is lovely, but don't thank me, CT, really don't. Thank all the people who came. Who have returned although it took a certain willingness to believe, took courage.

Yelling from the mountaintops can only work when there is somebody to hear it, and willing to answer. I might well have been screaming into a void.

And also, it has really only been a few precious days, so

quote:
let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

[ September 26, 2016, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: PanaceaSanans ]

Posted by PanaceaSanans (Member # 13395) on :

Alas, not a sun - but a meteor, fleeting but glorious, a little fire, some warmth - enough.
Just what I needed, right when I needed it. Thank you.

I'll be in the archives...

Posted by Elcheeko75 (Member # 13292) on :

[Frown]

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

Hi, CT, How are you doing?

Posted by CT (Member # 8342) on :

Hi, Syn! I am well. How are you?

Panacea, I'm so sorry. Wishing you strength and cheer in all your endeavors.

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

OK. I have been learning how to paint portraits.

Posted by PanaceaSanans (Member # 13395) on :

quote:
Originally posted by CT:
Panacea, I'm so sorry. Wishing you strength and cheer in all your endeavors.

CT, you kindest of souls. I am strengthened and content. I am not sorry.

I've been given some valuable answers to philosophical questions I had, which happens rarely, and I'm immensely grateful.

My point of view on gun regulation laws has changed although I never dared participate in the discussion.

I went to a planetarium and learned how awesome those are.

Last week I participated in a discussion about American politics (election) and history (Hamilton/Washington) and felt I actually knew what I was talking about. [Big Grin]

And I learned I am too uneducated even to play "Who am I" with people on Hatrack. For the first time in my life I "competed" with people who were at least as bright as I am.

I began reading the Alvin Maker Series, which is so lovely. I ordered "Red Prophet" and it arrived in the mail today.

I received the corrected version of my 65-page draft for my doctor's thesis last week.
And I need to prepare for an examination in December.

And Hatrack will continue to be a place for me to flee to when life treats me unkindly - whether it is today's active topics or the archives. [Smile]

Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :

What are your views on gun laws?

Posted by Sean Monahan (Member # 9334) on :

What is the topic of your thesis?

Posted by JanitorBlade (Member # 12343) on :

What is the topic of your thesis on gun laws?....