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Reply to Stand behind the yellow line...no musing beyond this point in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Thanks Sally. I've always considered it a benefit and not a recurrence of suffering. And it is true that you gain from all the people you meet, but like any memory, how concrete it becomes in your mind is usually dependent on what and how much you felt at the time. mrperky - thankyou Marco XX

Reply to Stand behind the yellow line...no musing beyond this point in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

I always find that past relationships send drift wood my way. Not trash, not waste, more like temporal messages in a bottle. You find yourself walking into a bookstore or a cinema or a cafe, and you have no clear idea of why, and then you remember. I often do this and i don't fight it. I pick up a book she would have liked, or watch a film i think would have been to her taste or drink that mochachino i never had the stomach for. Sometimes it's

The perfect life... in Humor JoeUser Forums

I fine Italian suit and a reason to wear it, A Humvee with a mountain bike on the rack, leather hiking shoes, standing the summit of a mountain, next to the behemoth, with a cup of hot coffee, warmed by my contentment. A tall glass of white rum and a banana chair on a Central American beach, somewhere where the beer costs you a dollar a bottle and th

Stand behind the yellow line...no musing beyond this point in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Subways and shopping centres, these are places of loneliness. It grips my tongue and imposes its terrible silence when I turn to the one next to me and want to speak. It’s almost as if I do not exist and the thought makes me tremble in some minor way because of its persistence, its day to day occurrence which pesters my movements. I gaze at wonderful women, at lowly w

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

Related to many nice Americans - In Bowling for Columbine Moore claimed that Canadians have as much access to guns as Americans do, but their country seems to be a lot less violent. He puts this down to sociological and economic reasons. He claimed that its not just guns that are the problem - its people and the way the run a country. Marco

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

Sld6 - I hear you, and i guess you could extened that statistic the world over. In a country with an economy that's the size of the cyclops it should be different, but like that mythical beast the depth perception just isn't there. Joe98 and cann1bal - angry words. And it will be these angry words that will change your country, just like i'm hoping it will change mine. Marco XX

Reply to An Ode to Youth in Art JoeUser Forums

I can't believe you actually read this thing. I mean...it's a f#$king monster I am glad it evoked memories, because that is exactly what this is - a long, extended memory, bleeding itself out. Marco XX

Reply to the accidental purist does the u.k in Travel JoeUser Forums

You made it absolutely clear that islands can travel. A mind and its memories smuggling a nation and its history through customs, a companion under your pillow at night along with warm hands and dreams of "Mr Shakespeare". Marco XX

Reply to a maximum standard of living ? in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

"still, we’re very safe saying we want it ...’cause let's face it ... there’s just no way it’s ever going to happen if it gets left to us, right ?" Right. I think that we can't get it around our head that for the betterment of our species we are going to have to establish and economy of suffering. We are going to have to ease the suffering the others by suffering a little ourselves. What we have to establish is an acceptable average o

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

I also happen to think, and i might have iterated this in another of my comments, that Columbine took on such gargantuan proportions because it happened exactly where, and involving people, we would expect it less. The idea of poeple killing people - senselessly or otherwise - in third world countries is not novel or shocking when that idea comes to fruition in reality. People who are poverty stricken and politically marginalised might have da

An Ode to Youth in Art JoeUser Forums

The water formed a thin film of cold on my back as I slithered through it, judging the distances, ducking under the oncoming swell, thinking to myself – how much longer can I keep this up, how much longer? It isn’t really a question of physical stamina, more a question of mental fortitude, a stoical resignation to natures buffeting and insults. I scream fuck you to th

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

Don't apologise for squat Kingbee. We don't take offense to the term or its evocation of silly men throwing animals on barbeques and stomping through the bush seeking animals that aren't as domestic as steaks. Psychx - I am certain that it's Americans that watch America most vigilantly. Its enemies and allies are way to selective to take your country as a whole, as a thing that cannot be contained in a single image or action. It could be true

Reply to A Precocious Child in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

It's not just you Sally. When a child, the night beyond that limit of 8:30 was forbidden. It's no surprise that i find pleasure in it. Also, one of the benefits of being nocturnal is that you get to bask in the glory of both dawn and twilight. People can have the middle of the day, i'll have its birth and death. Marco XX

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

well if you ever need a volunteer for that small plane... Marco

Reply to Jorge Luis Borges: The Caliph in Art JoeUser Forums

Mig, The "i" pronoun and and the word "stupidity" are two words i never, ever want to see in the same sentence when it is either written or uttered by you. You are still the most "quietly intelligent" person i know, that intelligence never running with the bad boy of human consiousness - ego. I wanted you to read this one so badly...you approve...i am happy <img src="../images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddl

Reply to "friday five" ... YOU: at your dirty little worst ;) in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

what is the worst ... 1/ thing you ever did and then blamed on "lust" ? Lust is the thing, human nature being what i blame (also there could have been that one time when i stupidly slept with an ex) 2/ lie you ever told ? Telling someone i loved them because i didn't want to see them cry (never, ever do this!) 3/ mistake you ever made? Going into a weird funk from the age of 18 up until...well...now

Reply to A Precocious Child in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Please tell me you've posted. Pleeeeeeze! You should know this, any writer judges their work by who reads it and their quality and I am so happy that you read my blog. Take care and be back soon. Marco XX

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

the media is its own psychopath Saint Ying - that's a perceptive diagnosis, and the point you raised is valid. In America (not excluding the rest of the world) there is tragedy and then the amplification of tragedy via the media, creating some sort of self perpetuating and self distorting nexus. <BR

Reply to Jorge Luis Borges: The Caliph in Art JoeUser Forums

Thank you for sharing, castnorth (great username by the way). Marco

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

Kingbee - it's not something people idylly bring up in conversation, but when discussion turns to problems that are specific to America, specifically problems with violence, that tragedy comes to the fore. For most other occurences of violence in the world, we can usually come up with some easy, cliched Socio-eco-political reasons to trace back to initial conditions or causes. For Columbine we couldn't. It wasn't easy figuring out why

Reply to Jorge Luis Borges: The Caliph in Art JoeUser Forums

I have read One Hundred Years... and absolutely loved it. Know most of the semiotic and structural/post structural theorists and think that they have a long way to go (e.g Sussure, Derrida, Foucault, Strauss, Lacan, Barthes , etc, etc). Eco took it all the way and wrote The Name of the Rose. Literature being the only tool capable of dissecting literature and the world of significance. I think that Borges and Marquez, in opposition to the semio

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

More entertaining. Is it possible? Plausible even? I look better as pulp anyway Marco

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

Gothic - and those Americans are so damn loud. If we can do it better than them, we definitely can't do it louder than them. Also, i gain very little pleasure in bashing the good ol' US. I only have to have a look in my own Australian backyard to find all that's debased and vile about the Screaming Eagle and its 50 stars. Marco

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

Muggaz comes to my defence. Should i swoon or something And its true. Columbine is the one event that keeps on cropping up disproportionately in expositions of American culture. Especially when the lynch mob gets together and wants to hang some Americana. Marco

Reply to Who would have guessed we're allies in Politics JoeUser Forums

Kingbee - Because of LTM (Loser Turd Mafia). Its a nice example to show how way one act gets refracted through the American psyche. I could have used many other examples, i just didn't. Who knows, i usually have the same difficulty, attempting to figure out why i wrote something the way i did, and i'm the one who wrote it. Muggaz - i used to hear the word seppo a lot back in the day when i was a surfer. Being young and naive, i always assumed