Posts by dedalus

i posted about writting this letter a while ago, but i just got the nerve to actually write it...........so here it is................what do you all think??????

for those of you who don't know, we were friends since i was about 5-6 and untill i was df'd at 15.

Here is something to debate!

by Aztec in

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does true love exist?.

i'm a skeptic by nature, although not necessarily a very logical one.

i believe in love but i am not sure of the idea of one true love or soulmates.

I was in a graduate seminar once, and we were in a circle discussing Romeo and Juliet. An education major across from me (I, understand, was a literature major, and am still snobbish enough to point out the difference), a quintessential surfer dude, brushed back a lock of blond hair and expostulated:

"It's like, you read about their love, and it's just, you know, so real. I mean, Romeo and Juliet, that's it, right? I totally would -- I think we all would -- like to experience that sometime. And Shakespeare was so on, you know what I mean? He was so there, you know he must have felt love like that too. And Romeo and Juliet gave themselves so completely, love engulfed them, and you couldn't even tell them apart, they were one. It's just such an awesome force that, like, you'd love to have, to love love, right?"

After some more of this, I couldn't take it. Love, I interrupted, was not the sole subject of the play, or at least I hoped it wasn't. Romeo and Juliet's affections were transient; their feelings were a volatile conflagration, to be burnt out by the quotidian affairs of Verona's day if not by their own suicides at night. And then, thinking of my wife at home, the stack of bills on the coffee table, her swollen stomach, any moment about to give birth, and I said:

"You know, Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have lasted a week. Real love is paying the bills. It's grocery shopping for pickles and ice cream at two in the morning. It's cleaning the apartment and doing laundry and punching a clock at some kitschy department store because your student loans won't pay the rent. It's waking up to the same ugly set of bad habits and imperfections, knowing it'll never end, and being okay with that."

My definition isn't very soul-swooning, I suppose, but it's the kind of love I've come to know and feel comfortable in. Things didn't work out so well for Romeo and Juliet anyway, did they?

Dedalus

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Logansrun is freaking me out ...

by dedalus in

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dude, and i apologize for saying this, but your avatar looks exactly like my father, a dub so devout he refuses to "embrace" me on the extremely rare occasions that we meet.

perhaps the resemblance isn't as severe as i think -- but shrunk down in a tiny picture, i see my father glaring at me as i sludge along with all of the other dogs on this board, returning to their vomit.

what's really strange is, i find much of what you write to be sensible.

dedalus

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[waves light saber furiously]

Dedalus Skywalker

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Logansrun is freaking me out ...

by dedalus in

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dude, and i apologize for saying this, but your avatar looks exactly like my father, a dub so devout he refuses to "embrace" me on the extremely rare occasions that we meet.

perhaps the resemblance isn't as severe as i think -- but shrunk down in a tiny picture, i see my father glaring at me as i sludge along with all of the other dogs on this board, returning to their vomit.

what's really strange is, i find much of what you write to be sensible.

dedalus

Dude, and I apologize for saying this, but your avatar looks exactly like my father, a dub so devout he refuses to "embrace" me on the extremely rare occasions that we meet. Perhaps the resemblance isn't as severe as I think -- but shrunk down in a tiny picture, I see my father glaring at me as I sludge along with all of the other dogs on this board, returning to their vomit. What's really strange is, I find much of what you write to be sensible. The result is a migraine-inducing dissonance I can't seem to shake.

[shudder]

Dedalus

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What are you currently reading?

by Sirona in

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as ex-dubs we are free to read whatever the hell we want to read.

in celebration of that fact (and to give me some ideas on what to read next .

sirona

dedalus

On a huge Updike kick. Just read Couples, which was amazing. I didn't read it so much as inhabit it, such is Updike's descriptive prowess.

Am currently reading the Rabbit novels -- sort of like watching the America I wasn't alive to see, or was too young to remember.

Dedalus

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They are shocked when their children grow up and do not want this

by garybuss in

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i have been reading the district assembly posts with fascination.

these are sponsored by a religious book publishing corporation that claims to be divinely directed but denies it's writings are inspired.

it used to be managed by those who claimed to be of those remaining of 144,000 anointed but they quit their corporate positions in 2000.. .

dedalus

These are sponsored by a religious book publishing corporation that claims to be Divinely directed but denies its writings are inspired.

Like Maverick said, very clearly and succinctly put. There's a point at which irony becomes hypocrisy, and I think this is it.

Dedalus

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Here it is, a heated debate! The end of fluff!

by dedalus in

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this is my daughter -- not exactly a recent picture, but a hilarious one.. .

dedalus

Suddenly I can't see the picture either, Jesika, only a ".". Oh well. It was fluff, proud fluff, though.

I agree with you, Teejay, daughters are quite amazing.

Dedalus