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[swampwater]

spent the morning hours before and after a brief sweaty fit of dreamless sleep poring over bukowski, going back and rereading the story i wrote last night while heavily under the influence of 'a bad trip' and some ambien, felt it not too shabby but perhaps even more terse and clipped than necessary, wondered if i really did hate hemingway after all

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[i_chubbicus]

wow...

[swampwater]

you'd almost think there was a point!

[loser666]

i second lisa's statement.. in fact, i plan to quote alot of this in a post... i would try to sum it up, but it's not possible. you say so much there, with susch a good point, i'm just gonna quote it all and link away..

[diapholom]

oh anyone can fool himself until he confronts time
and himself

what swampwater really said is a kind of admission
of his circle of competence because
mankind has got to know his limitations

this probably should've been an actual email

[cheeze]

well said, sir.

i would apologize for making you sick but honestly i don't believe it's the same thing.

i am back in kingsport but you will probably know that before you get this comment, because i plan on calling you later today (being that you're most likely at least trying to sleep at this moment) and asking you if you want to breathe the same air for a while. (you could even call me if you get this before i call, gasp!)

also, you and i have had the "it only helps for about half an hour but then you lose it and everything fucks up" conversation a couple of times. that's a fact that i noticed without any writer telling me so.

last night i talked about the books that you love, even quoted one of your seeming favorite lines (not like i don't quote everything all the time, don't know if you infected me with it or just cause me to start doing it aloud) about hard times.

i showed our pink selves to a few of my friends- they said you are a cutie, if that means anything. *grin*

oh and! a very very interesting development/

[morningeyes]

i belong to the world, and even that is questionable.

your pledge is full of bitterness, and anger. and anything created out of anger will only perpetuate more anger.

in my head, it's always silently-

"i pledge allegiance
to the earth
and to the universe in which it spins."

i worry. and sit and worry. about the paths we are all, all six billion of us, are spiraling down.

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[swampwater]

yes, yours is much more positive and delivers the spirit of the ideal more soundly, but i do feel it neccessary to refute assumed compliance with the old creeds.. i cannot deny the bitterness, it is present in most matters more than i would like it to be. but in this case the bitterness stems from my (and your) unwilling tacit consent in being a citizen of a country, this one or any. and it wasn't such a trying argument in the old days, when there were frontiers aplenty and if i got really sick of living under repression i could just move to the new world, wherever it happened to be at the time. but we've run out of new worlds, and so become mired in the mistakes of history. i want emancipation from the broken systems, and with dread rising in the back of my throat i say that emancipation has never come without a fight. however, i hope you understand my example of civil war was only meant to illustrate how easily these artificial alliances and groupings are destroyed when push comes to shove- and to provoke someone into questioning

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[morningeyes]

believe whatever you want.

[diapholom]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mrblue92/109850.html?thread=462874#t462874

[jenepeuxpas]

some of us lose our roots, some of us lose our land, some of us lose our families and our heritage. some never stay in the same state, some never pledge allegiance to the flag of only one country. in my own way i am one of those

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[swampwater]

i just hope you and other people understood i wasn't going off on some clannish, isolationist trip, i'm not ready to build fences up around my holler and arm myself to the teeth... not yet. i just think that our country's crazy passion for nationalism and global supremacy is a huge trap we have been suckered into since WW1... and it's going to get us hurt more than it already has.

onto non-ulcer-causing matters: you did it! holy fucking poo, you did it. you crazy kids! or crazy responsible young adults, i don't even know anymore. you're still nuts. but despite our respective snits of months past, i'm very happy for you and mommy alan, and i wish you all of the best. tell hubby the old gang of losers still tip back 40's to his name.

[cheeze]

might i say...

TOLD YOU SO.

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[swampwater]

eh?