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virginia_slim

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Jan 30, 2005 16:54

When we read, we don't look at individual letters to discern meaning; we look at the whole word. When we look at the words that we are reading, they are most easily read when they are in high contrast with their background, because it's been proven that we don't actually read the text, but the spaces around it.

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sleepvalentine January 30 2005, 22:47:29 UTC

that's a beautiful picture.

sort of pensive, forlorn, love-struck in a bittersweet confused sort of way.

i think in all relationships we read and read and read into gestures and intonations and the way his lip curls when he smiles one way and then another and whether or not he stares bright eyed when you walk away.

with the text, you're just left with curves of words stripped of all these other aspects, and yes, the space around it and those silences.

interesting predicament. it's fine to read, it's fine to speculate (as I think you and I tend to do at times), just don't hinge your feelings around them (as I think you and I tend to do at times).

look at who you're taking advice from! i'm far too silly with boys and gun-shy to be heaping you with advice. take with sacks and sacks of salt.

virginia_slim January 31 2005, 05:18:28 UTC

well, this time I hinged my feelings and speculations on the wrong door. It was resolved about an hour and a half ago, and I'm feeling a little despondant. I don't think I'm going to do this again for a while, but I'll survive. I hope all is well with you, and will call you soon.

wrighter January 30 2005, 23:25:18 UTC

babe, i absolutely understand your sentiment.

the only advice i can offer, and humbly at that, is:

we must live with our heads in the clouds, make sure that our feet are firmly planted on the ground, allowing our heart to float somewhere in between.

mwah

virginia_slim January 31 2005, 05:14:09 UTC

thank you. well put, though sometimes I wish I was taller.

wrighter January 31 2005, 15:12:20 UTC

hmm. well there's that freaky chinese stretching surgery...

i'm sure you were made as tall as you need to be.

iamdownsyndrome January 31 2005, 16:15:20 UTC

limb lengthening.

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outbreakgirl January 31 2005, 23:23:38 UTC

dear matt. if your interweb fling doesn't work out, you can always have the boy we both have a crush on.. as i think i'm pretty much over him.

uuunng.. worst weekend ever.

virginia_slim January 31 2005, 23:42:03 UTC

Oh dear. You need to call me and elaborate on both clauses in that statement, thought I think I might be relatively over him as well.

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