Gilbert, Understanding Ovation

[polinium]

Applause often satisfies a need or appetite as profound as the appetite for the aesthetic experience that elicits it. In its simplest for the law of stimulus and response dictates that when we feel something we must do something, and applause is the place where that doing first takes on an irreducibly aesthetic form. Applauding for a good

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[geetlord]

that is indeed a bizarre way of looking at applause

[sugartru64]

sticking two 9volt batteries to each other in series...
downloading porn and not watching it...
using a cathader...

The reciprocol of what he says tickles

[yomintyfresh]

So, how are you doing, health-wise?

[polinium]

that remains to be seen.
i have a few follow up visits, and as long as the intra-cranial pressure has gone down, then everything'll be fine and dandy, but it not, bad things are happening.

[yomintyfresh]

Shit. I hope it has gone down. I've been worrying about you.