that last bit of writing really didn't turn out as well as I wanted it to, so I've deleted it and replaced it with a map of where I've been in the U.S. Jolly good.
shame, i rather liked it, the idea of mental routes been run until they become so automatic they become transparent, become how they world is, or, as Larkin put it:
habit for a while Suddenly they harden into all we've got...
I was conspiring (well, with myself) on a reply full of ruts, beaten paths or even sclerotic arteries; an all together gloomier, more Larkinesque take on the way our fresh young vision hardens into hoary prejudice then becomes the world we see, narrow, twisted, hard. What I liked about your take was precisely the absence of this bitter twist. The belief that the connections we build up, the links we make needn't just constrict, they can also illuminate, enable a crystalline, clearer vision of the world. I liked it.
oh. um. about turn?freemooreJune 8 2006, 13:20:53 UTC
in that case, here it is again. It's just that sometimes I read these things back to myself a bit later and they feel a bit pompous. The thoughts-as-crystals thing is a metaphor that keeps returning to my head and I didn't feel that the way this was written was pretty enough. since you liked it, though
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Thoughts composed after imbiding liberal quantities of gin allows thoughts to slip through the binding forces of logic...
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habit for a while
Suddenly they harden into all we've got...
I was conspiring (well, with myself) on a reply full of ruts, beaten paths or even sclerotic arteries; an all together gloomier, more Larkinesque take on the way our fresh young vision hardens into hoary prejudice then becomes the world we see, narrow, twisted, hard. What I liked about your take was precisely the absence of this bitter twist. The belief that the connections we build up, the links we make needn't just constrict, they can also illuminate, enable a crystalline, clearer vision of the world. I liked it.
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