triplets Q Life is opposing doublets. You-me, sit-stand, work-rest, read-write, lock-key, talk-listen, sleep together- sleep apart, sleep-wake, ... What would it be like if it were trianularly opposing triplets? Surely no less interesting or challenging. Maybe it would require us to work less, think more, plot more, enjoy one another more, and more completely? All I know is that the sum of the angles of a triangle is unavoidably pi radians. we would be forced to 020325 ... Q Sorry, careful deletion has never been one of my special skills. 020325 ... lulie Triangles are not better, a wedge is not taster than the entire pie. 020326 ... lulie so is it music, math or art? 020326 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Twin_sisters and then name_twins reminded me of my dream last night...of which I remember almost nothing except I was able to correctly identify the names of the triplets I went to school with in grade 10 and 11: Keira, Maeve, and Deirdre. Identical triplets! Maeve and Deirdre had hair about the same length, so I got them mixed up a lot; Keira's was longer. I remember Maeve as decidedly kind, Deirdre a talented actor, and Keira as bold and droll. But when I try to remember their words, I can't recall who said what: -Trying on a rural accent for our read-aloud exercise for The Grapes of Wrath - at first jokingly, but then with feeling. And they had an American accent that shaped the vowels in a different way than most of us did. What I thought of as a "drawl," though not particularly Southern. -Again English class, after the teacher mentioned the Greek roots of a word: "If a philosopher is someone who loves wisdom, is a pedophile someone who loves children?" (Neither offense nor amusement dominated his reaction; it was more like, "Okay, you CAN be serious here.") -To the teacher, near his desk, giving her opinion that the novel Feed by M. T. Anderson was trying to be too much like 1984 or A Clockwork Orange (that was the novel the media studies teacher assigned, not him) Their occasional smart-assery wasn't usually snobby, buuut...if my memory serves me right, they were all in the Science instead of the Social stream, doing physics and chemistry instead of media and world history. So that'd mean one of them picked up the book, borrowed it from a friend maybe, and read the thing for fun. Which isn't inconceivable. FACE School wasn't generally anti-reading. But there was this bias among some of us that books assigned for classes automatically increased in Potential Boringness. Confession: I didn't find The Alchemist that exciting, and Grapes of Wrath I was probably too young to understand. But this is straying far from the category of triplets. So, a brief sketch, for any and all of the three: Wavy light brown hair, pale skin prone to moles. A geeky grace, thin limbs but not gawky. A tendency to prop an elbow on a desk and a chin on the hand. 230128 ... e_o_i (correction: raze's earlier blathe was twin_sister) 230128 what's it to you? who go blather from