Tim
Do you ever get giddy with people?
No film can ever really be described as "dreamlike." The only artistic medium that could come close to being dreamlike is video game.
Do you ever get giddy with people when you're alone?
Nobody should ever try to make Jenga a metaphor for life.
Do you ever get giddy with people who are just characters written by other people?
The two most beautiful things in the universe are the mathematics and the human body, which really aren't that different.
There goes my "giddy"-"other"-"giddy"-"other" structure!
Does everybody read poetry? People should read poetry. It's not just for stodgy fodgers.
Read this poem by Philip Larkin called "High Windows", here are the first four lines go to the lj-cut to read the other twenty lines:
When I see a couple of kids
And guess he's fucking her and she's
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise
When I see a couple of kids
And guess he's fucking her and she's
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise
Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives--
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide
To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,
And thought, That'll be the life;
No God any more, or sweating in the dark
About hell and that, or having to hide
What you think of the priest. He
And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds. And immediately
Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
Philip Larkin, 1964 (age 42)