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A soliloquy from Mnemosyne
I'm kind of a big deal around here
Created on 2002-05-28 18:09:21 (#574725), last updated 2009-11-27
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Basic Info| Name: | the martyrdom of Saint Me |
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| Location: | Naperville, Illinois, United States |
| Website: | If you really loved me, you'd buy me things... |
BioI live in the past and make plans for the future. The present, however, is killing me.
Non sum qualis eram.
Be aware that the narrator of this story is unreliable.
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"These people ought to know who we are, and tell that we were here." - Winsor McCay, from Little Nemo in Slumberland
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So you want to know about why I choose to do what I do?
"That boy was me, I think. And the thought which follows, chilling me like a glass of cold water, is: Which boy do you mean?
Sipping a cup of tea, looking at the sun slanting through the kitchen windows, hearing the TV from one end of the house and the shower from the other, feeling the pulse behind my eyes that means I got through one beer too many from the night before, I feel sure I could find it. I would see clear metal winking through rust, the bright summer sun reflecting it back to my eyes. I would go down the side of the embankment, push aside the grasses that had grown up and twined roughly around its handle, and I would...what? Why, simply pull it out of time. I would turn it over and over in my hands, wondering at the feel of it, marvelling at the knowledge that the last person to touch it had been long years in his grave. Suppose there was a note in it? Help me, I'm lost. Of course there wouldn't be - boys don't go out to pick blueberries with paper and pencil - but just suppose. I imagine the awe I'd feel would be as dark as an eclipse. Still, it's mostly the idea of holding that pail in my two hands, I guess - as much a symbol of my living as his dying, proof that I really do know which boy it was - which boy of the five of us. Reading every year in its cake of dust and the fading of its bright shine. Feeling it, trying to understand the suns that shone on it, the rains that fell on it, and the snows that covered it. And to wonder where I was when each thing happened to it in its lonely place, where I was, what I was doing, who I was loving, how I was getting along, where I was. I'd hold it, read it, feel it...and look at my own face in whatever reflection might be left.
Can you dig it?"
- Stephen King, from "The Body"
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"Everybody's a jerk. You, me, that jerk. That's my philosophy."
~ Bender Bending Rodriguez
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Non sum qualis eram.
Be aware that the narrator of this story is unreliable.
************************************
"These people ought to know who we are, and tell that we were here." - Winsor McCay, from Little Nemo in Slumberland
************************************
So you want to know about why I choose to do what I do?
"That boy was me, I think. And the thought which follows, chilling me like a glass of cold water, is: Which boy do you mean?
Sipping a cup of tea, looking at the sun slanting through the kitchen windows, hearing the TV from one end of the house and the shower from the other, feeling the pulse behind my eyes that means I got through one beer too many from the night before, I feel sure I could find it. I would see clear metal winking through rust, the bright summer sun reflecting it back to my eyes. I would go down the side of the embankment, push aside the grasses that had grown up and twined roughly around its handle, and I would...what? Why, simply pull it out of time. I would turn it over and over in my hands, wondering at the feel of it, marvelling at the knowledge that the last person to touch it had been long years in his grave. Suppose there was a note in it? Help me, I'm lost. Of course there wouldn't be - boys don't go out to pick blueberries with paper and pencil - but just suppose. I imagine the awe I'd feel would be as dark as an eclipse. Still, it's mostly the idea of holding that pail in my two hands, I guess - as much a symbol of my living as his dying, proof that I really do know which boy it was - which boy of the five of us. Reading every year in its cake of dust and the fading of its bright shine. Feeling it, trying to understand the suns that shone on it, the rains that fell on it, and the snows that covered it. And to wonder where I was when each thing happened to it in its lonely place, where I was, what I was doing, who I was loving, how I was getting along, where I was. I'd hold it, read it, feel it...and look at my own face in whatever reflection might be left.
Can you dig it?"
- Stephen King, from "The Body"
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"Everybody's a jerk. You, me, that jerk. That's my philosophy."
~ Bender Bending Rodriguez
Terror Alert Level:
be sorted @ nimbo.net
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