al belly fire Al seemed to be listening intensely while trying to appear not to listen. He's like that. Intense and distant. You would think that a man who displays two very distinct contradictions would stand out and be noticed, but not Al. Perhaps it comes from years of blending and normality, years of no eye-contact and having to repeat himself too many times due to a repressed voice. That stutter must be crippling because it makes him talk too fast, too quietly. Al is assertive too, if you can imagine. So set in his ways. Religious and bending in the same way that he is intense and distant together. A science scholar and lover of the arts. To me Al is a mesmerizing contradiction and I can't help but draw him to me in conversation. Books, movies, work. We can relate...somehow we are very alike too. Though I am loath to admit such a thing is possible. 041216 what's it to you? who go blather from