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[derghaust]

He'd asked me what's the first thing you'll do when you get there? There were four of us. The backyard. Not my backyard. Behind the house. A house, not my house. No lights shone, but lighters clicked. Been trying to unlock the meanings of things. Thinking about things, their caverns and depths, their subterraneans. I'd walk down main street smoke

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[earthmothering]

very nice. I'd read 10 more chapters of this. pleasant cadence, fine noir existentialism. It's like you with a touch of Bogart. Can't wait for the movie.

[derghaust]

What are you talking about? I am like me with a touch of Bogart. Pfft.

Yeah right, I wish. The closest I could ever get to noir is Play it Again, Sam. I guess that's close enough for me.

[earthmothering]

Say, are you still dabbling in academics? I just signed up for a physics class at the local community college (which is not nearly as cheap here as at FCC). I'm going to pick away at a BA/BS in whatever so I can get into a master's of divinity program and go into some sort of ministry something or other. I'm thinking I'll do the BS in Biology. For SOME reason I have rather fond associations with Biology classes. Go figure.

Speaking of which, or rather, alluding to, I had the opportunity to use the line "Loneliness is the price of solitude" in conversation recently. My b/f broke up with me (again) and when he suggested that he needed more time alone, I whipped out that gem of a quote. Would Roger be proud? I hope so.

And yes, you are like you with a touch of Bogart. And you do too have a noir flair. (Which is a lot better than having a noir flare.)

[derghaust]

I had until last summer been dipping my feet at regular intervals, but have been academics-free for the last year. It will be about a year more, but I am planning on actually submerging this time. Submersion isn't normally my strong suit so I am pretty jealous of your toe-splashing attitude, but I think we'll all get where we need to be going.

I'm sorry to hear about the break-up. I've had a couple of those since we talked last. But I guess if they give you a chance to use your wit with (unaccustomed, in my case) panache, so much the better? And I do love that line.

hey gurrl

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Have you read Haruki Murakami? I'm sure you've 'read' him but have you 'read' him? I think I remember you mentioning him and I finally got around to reading 'Wind-Up Bird Chronicles' for real. This is kind of like that, but obviously your own thing. I don't even mean like the style of it, although that is there, but the kind of casual attitude towards the extraordinary in banal, every day life. But mostly the nesting of space inside space, like a Matroyshka (yeah, I know what the name is!) doll, one inside the other. My friend told me about a dream she had where she had this realization that everything was a container, and that it freaked her out. That's what this kind of reminds me of; I guess it's probably not new but you did it really well, in an expert way rather than the way an 'amateur' might just copy and paste a situation into the algebraic form of a metaphor. I took more benadryl than I was supposed to tonight so I probably sound like a total dickhead, but that's just my thoughts. Also, I have a new journal.
-Jaimie

Re: hey gurrl

[derghaust]

I read some Murakami, but you know I couldn't have been paying too much attention. I was talking to my ex about it right after we both read it and she had to explain to me that the Kano sisters and the girl in the alley and the dream-girl and all those people were actually facets of his wife that he was looking for the whole time.