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I wish this fandom had more round-robin type challenges. Come on guys. FIC SHIRITORI. it would be the best thing ever yo.
Would anyone be interested on joining in a small-scale test version? I errr, set something up already. It's totally not polished in any way yet, but the post explaining the tentative rules is relatively shiny.
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Would anyone be interested on joining in a small-scale test version? I errr, set something up already. It's totally not polished in any way yet, but the post explaining the tentative rules is relatively shiny.
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that bit about him being the only real one, and everyone else being ghosts was a very strong image. That's not the part that got me, but I think it's the part that set me up for it. I think part of it was that it was written so that I empathized with all the major players in the article. The part about how he said that he was anxious about playing because no one was under any obligation to care, that he got to the point where he wasn't even expecting accolades anymore, all he wanted was someone to look at him and show that they realized that there was indeed a guy playing a violin in the station.
I thought about what I'd have done as a commuter going through L'fant Station. I probably wouldn't have stopped to listen unless I was running early (which never happens), and even if I did, I wouldn't have done it obviously. I'd have gone somewhere I could listen surrepticiously. I would have only given money if I had a dollar or something in my pocket. Fumbling into my purse would have been too much trouble when i'm in a rush.
I don't know. it was just a very touching article. nantonaku.
Yeah, I agree with your point that the article isn't even about classical music appreciation (or lack thereof); it's about the way we live our lives.
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It's so funny how you and nihongofrancais really liked how it was written, and yet, one of the points that others wrote last year was that they didn't like how it was written at all.
I just feel like you "got it" - from everything I've read about this from the article's writer, you took away from it the sorts of things he wanted people to take away from the story. I wish I could explain myself why the article feels so significant to me, but I can't.
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It was beautifully written. The language sucked me in. It made the event real for me. It took me a long time to read, but i think he needed the length to make his point a well as he did, in emotional as well as clinical terms. If he hadn't tied in the quotations, the movie, the predictions made about the experiment beforehand, the interviews with all the people, the thing about the kids, I might have gotten the point, but it would have made me think on personal terms. It would have been an 'oh, that's interesting,' and I would have moved on. I probably wouldn't have pimped the article because it would haven't made an impact on me.
I thought it was a very compelling critique on society and how, well, sad it is that we have the life beaten out of us in favor of the schedule and the clock. It's important. This is something we should be concerned about, because I think if we think about it, maybe we'll take some more time out in our lives to enjoy little things like violets and voilinists.
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*would not have made me think on personal terms.
I probably wouldn't have pimped the article because it would haven't made an impact on me.
I probably wouldn't have pimped the article because it wouldn't have made an impact on me.
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