I need to stop reading you on my phone. I'm glad I do because it's nice to get something that makes you go hmmm and heave a sigh of relief that you are not alone when you're out in public, feeling like a freak too.
But it's really hard to touch type a meaningful thanks on a tiny phone with my giant thumbs forever mistaking a pause or a space for an n. Words are hard- out loud I don't have the opportunity to reflect and consider and think through because I've got everyone looking at me for an answer now and it almost always comes out wrong. If I'm writing I can read it back and examine my own thoughts with some hope of clarity and it feels less immediate when I see something off and wrong. If it's in front of me, instead of mixing with everything else inside of me, I can take it apart as it is and build it again as I feel it should be.
So thanks, for putting that into better words than I had :D
I love your phone comments (especially the last one, with the incomprehensible Anthony :D).
wrt writing: I feel that way too. It allows for more control and precision of expression. For some reason, I don't think I've ever thought about writing as building (your words brought to mind the image of bricklaying, though I have no idea why). I definitely associate it with looms and shuttles and Penelope taking the threads out to keep the suitors away.
Hee. Anthony can be the new avatar of miscommunication. You didn't hear what i said, somehow our wires got crossed. Oh, Anthony. He must be working overtime tonight ;)
But yes, words are like bricks! Written words have shape, and a tangible form in the real world. And sometimes they're so very heavy, but because you can see them it's possible to shift them about and re-lay them so that the house of your thoughts can become solid and realized, instead of lying about haphazard wherever they happened to fall out of your mouth. I can write up a fortress of words but sometimes, when I'm speaking, the best I can do is a ramshackle hovel, hastily shored up by backpedals and clarifications. Like building to a blueprint vs throwing something together with what you have on hand.
(I can get you with the weapon angle too. When I'm angry my word bricks are hurled with deadly accuracy and often excessive force)
omg how cool would that be to have a word with a person to tell them unambiguously that you completely missed what they were saying and it's not a matter of blame between you or the other person, only, as you say, somehow the wires got crossed? I'm imagining being in the middle of a shouting match and saying "ANTHONY ANTHONY" kind of like tapping out of a wrestling match. I imagine it would defuse the situation because 1. humor 2. remind you both your relationship is deep enough that you have a word like that in the first place 3. sounds a lot better than "we are miscommunicating"
That's (:D) fascinating that you think of words that way. I wonder if the conceptualization o words affects the way we write, if your paragraphs are structured differently or sentences organized more like the architecture of cathedrals and skyscrapers. I could go around like Spiderman in the city of words you build.
(when I'm angry words are definitely needles, paring knives, small things that hurt but really can mess you up when wielded by an expert)
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I need to stop reading you on my phone. I'm glad I do because it's nice to get something that makes you go hmmm and heave a sigh of relief that you are not alone when you're out in public, feeling like a freak too.
But it's really hard to touch type a meaningful thanks on a tiny phone with my giant thumbs forever mistaking a pause or a space for an n. Words are hard- out loud I don't have the opportunity to reflect and consider and think through because I've got everyone looking at me for an answer now and it almost always comes out wrong. If I'm writing I can read it back and examine my own thoughts with some hope of clarity and it feels less immediate when I see something off and wrong. If it's in front of me, instead of mixing with everything else inside of me, I can take it apart as it is and build it again as I feel it should be.
So thanks, for putting that into better words than I had :D
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wrt writing: I feel that way too. It allows for more control and precision of expression. For some reason, I don't think I've ever thought about writing as building (your words brought to mind the image of bricklaying, though I have no idea why). I definitely associate it with looms and shuttles and Penelope taking the threads out to keep the suitors away.
wrt freaks: You're definitely not alone.
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But yes, words are like bricks! Written words have shape, and a tangible form in the real world. And sometimes they're so very heavy, but because you can see them it's possible to shift them about and re-lay them so that the house of your thoughts can become solid and realized, instead of lying about haphazard wherever they happened to fall out of your mouth. I can write up a fortress of words but sometimes, when I'm speaking, the best I can do is a ramshackle hovel, hastily shored up by backpedals and clarifications. Like building to a blueprint vs throwing something together with what you have on hand.
(I can get you with the weapon angle too. When I'm angry my word bricks are hurled with deadly accuracy and often excessive force)
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That's (:D) fascinating that you think of words that way. I wonder if the conceptualization o words affects the way we write, if your paragraphs are structured differently or sentences organized more like the architecture of cathedrals and skyscrapers. I could go around like Spiderman in the city of words you build.
(when I'm angry words are definitely needles, paring knives, small things that hurt but really can mess you up when wielded by an expert)
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