things_you_wrote_when_you_were_young raze recurring themes: action, adventure, visiting strange faraway lands, school friends recast as warped heroes and villains with their strongest characteristics exaggerated and amplified, superhero cats, problem-solving, surrealist humour, doomed romance, violence, and flatulence. though not necessarily in that order. 130301 ... past now and again i stumble upon them here and on blue. 130301 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Ēcriture: La Superstition Conclusions Même si nous pouvons expliquer les chose en nature par la science, et nous ne croyons pas en la superstition, il n’est pas nécessaire que la vie soit rigide et monotone. Il y a des autres traditions comme les histoires et la literature, la musique et la danse, qui sont fort intéressantes. 130804 ... e_o_i Maybe this was the introduction? There are many contradictions or seeming contradictions within his book, especially in Holden’s narrative. A few are obvious and direct, others are more subtle. There are contradictions in which it is easy to figure out the reason behind them; others are harder to understand. In discovering the reason for these contradictions, we can understand more of the story and its main character, Holden Caulfield. It is interesting to see the patterns of the story, and how the author wrote it. It also gives us insight into Holden’s personality. 130804 ... e_o_i No more grade 10 essays, I promise; okay, just this one sentence: "Cooperation is also essential in a family, even though the word sounds like something you sing a song about in kindergarten." Now I need to go make a composite essay. It will be Art. 130804 ... raze once upon a time i thought getting drunk and getting stoned were the same thing. i also thought a serenade was a situation you could get yourself into. and for some strange reason, "waterspout" was my go-to rhyme when rhyming felt like it needed to happen and the preceding line ended with an "out" word. i have no idea how these things get started. i'm not sure i know what ends them, either. 161212 ... unhinged surprisingly some of them are still good; blather is an archive 161213 ... raze i have most of the stories i wrote over the years, for school or just for fun, stashed away at one place or another around the house. but i just found one i didn't really have any memory of writing: an unproduced stage play called "the frame-up". in it, a young man learns he has a terminal heart condition. he takes an experimental drug to prolong his life, but the drug scrambles his brain and moral compass to the point that he becomes obsessed with turning his death into an act of vengeance, framing his best friend for murder, convinced he's sleeping with his girlfriend behind his back. it's full of monologues, stage descriptions that are almost longer than the scenes they're setting up, and bizarre touches like a character whistling the melody to "jump into the fire" by harry nilsson as he walks off-stage (as if my ninth grade english teacher would have been a nilsson fan) and a doctor who has an almost erotic jelly donut fixation. i was a weird kid. 170626 ... macquaria I read some of my writings and cringe. Some are old blathes or old journals I have come across back home. I read them and can see how selfish, egocentric and unsympathetic I was back then. I am really sorry in a way that these are written permanently. But it would be easier if they weren't to pretend that I wasn't as cringe worthy as I was, and you need your experiences and mistakes to grow. Still, there are a few good entries in there, mostly poems or thoughts about things other than myself. It also makes me think of how my family and friends have put up with the naive and self-centred younger me and how they still support me now and I am so grateful. I'm grateful for blather and her skites: this got me through my loneliness and stormy teens. Now I'm older and I don't write as much as I used to. Full-time job, a lovely partner and great family and friends - there has been a lot of loss, sadness and stress as well but I know that I am lucky in life as well as not. I come to blather sometimes and feel like no_nevermind_i_have_nothing_to_say Or maybe more accurately I feel nervous about posting as I reread some of the old entries and think what an ass I sounded and that my writings will be mundane or not poetic enough. Maybe now I'm at the age that overthinking things is the norm for me, or maybe that is just how it is. But to end on a positive... I enjoy reading the thoughts, feelings and meanderings from now and from years ago when all skites were younger, seeing snapshots of people's lives that they have shared on here and the blue, people that may never meet and yet are sharing their inner thoughts and secrets and uniting in this hidden world. Thanks for sharing. 190706 ... e_o_i Hey, it's more "1984" crossovers! In '06 or '07 and in an idiom that would make Chomsky mutter, "THAT puts the idiot in idiolect." The amusing and/or pathetic thing is, I can still translate this (it's mostly fake French): Nyon vyden Naranya orlogitek (lecto biblek) mes on peu drol di’l conpari y Maluska Macintoshki, perke il y on commersk di Superbowl a l’anni deznov otoyqua quis conpar biblek Deznov otoyqua avek le mond das computeks. Setta: borek et dryden, dool, utilitarek. Vars dystope. Un hom com “Lar Frern” parlek sur on tevecran a geekpop uniformaten. Apres ca, on divida avek chemisi mac “hackay” (on p’ti pun) le tevecran avek on axa (ou marto? ki nyon kyen). Los motets apparuit sur li commersk quis lect “En deznov otoyqua, Maluska lansa le com Macintoshki. Deznov otoyqua nyon ressemblan Deznov otoyqua!” Nyon extremel intelig, mes nyonlepeu effectif. Translation: I haven't seen A Clockwork Orange (I've just read the book) but it's a little funny to compare it with Apple Computer, because there was a Superbowl commercial in 1984 that compared the book with the world of computers. Setting: boring and dry, dull, utilitarian. Close to dystopian. A man called "Big Brother" speaks on the TV screen to a crowd of uniformed geeky types. After that, a woman with a Mac T-shirt "hacks" (a little pun) the TV screen with an axe (or a hammer? I don't know). Words appear on the commercial that read "In 1984, Apple will launch the Macintosh computer. 1984 won't look like '1984'!" Not extremely intelligent, but effective nevertheless. ...I just watched the commercial and the woman was wearing a tank top with an unclear design; the Apple logo appears at the end, though. Also, the text is also intoned dramatically and the exact words are "On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984.'" Gahhhh it's so cheesy and dramatic. Like the old Reader's Digest ads that would give a paragraph-long narrative about how a better vacuum cleaner or stackable chair set could change someone's life. Just ask John and Sue. They've gone from constant arguments to a picture of domestic harmony, and all because of the DynaDustBlock stackable vacuum cleaner set! I miss the decades before I was born. (Says me after remarking just yesterday how the Cold War wasn't so cool.) 210910 ... e_o_i (I mean, I WAS born in the 80s. '88. But the first year I remember it being was 1992.) 210910 ... unhinged ophelia on blue 210911 what's it to you? who go blather from