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Created on 2001-11-15 17:46:57 (#394694), last updated 2007-11-19
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Basic Info| Name: | tsi'b kolonton |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 09-06 |
| Location: | Yonkers, New York, United States |
BioFrom having been born so often
I have salty experience
like creatures of the sea
with a passion for stars
and an earthy destination.
And so I move without knowing
to which world I’ll be returning
-Pablo Neruda
"This is where the lattice comes in. The lattice that we are either a part of, or apart from. The lattice is the connective tissue. The lattice is everyone else, the the lattice is my people, collective youth, people like me, hearts ripe, brain aglow. The lattice is everyone I have ever known, mostly my age or thereabouts- I know little else, know only six or seven people over forty, know nothing to say to them- but my people, we are still there, still able, if we start now - I see us as one, a vast matrix, an army, a whole, each one of us responsible to one another, because no one else is.......people who have everything in common no matter where they're from, all these people know all the same things and truly hope for the same things, it's undeniable that they do, and if we can bring everyone to grab one part of the other, like an arm at the socket, everyone holding anothers arm at he socket, and if we can get everyone to, instead of just ripping the arm from the socket, instead to hold to it tight, and thus strengthening--- the, um- Like the human ocean moving as one, the undulating, the wave making--
´ahem´
´Or like a snowshoe´
´A snowshoe?´
´You wear snowshoes when the snow is deep and porous. The latticework within the snowshoe's oval distributes the wearer's weight over a wider area, in order to keep him or her from falling through the snow. so people, the connections between people, the people you know, become sort of a lattice, and the more people, good people, they must be good people, who know that they are there to help, the more of these people you know, and that know you, and know your situation and your story and your troubles or whatnot, the wider and stronger the lattice, and the less likely you are to--´
´Fall through the snow?´
´Right.´
´That is a mediocre metaphor´
´Yes. I'm working on it.´
Dave Eggers
I have salty experience
like creatures of the sea
with a passion for stars
and an earthy destination.
And so I move without knowing
to which world I’ll be returning
-Pablo Neruda
"This is where the lattice comes in. The lattice that we are either a part of, or apart from. The lattice is the connective tissue. The lattice is everyone else, the the lattice is my people, collective youth, people like me, hearts ripe, brain aglow. The lattice is everyone I have ever known, mostly my age or thereabouts- I know little else, know only six or seven people over forty, know nothing to say to them- but my people, we are still there, still able, if we start now - I see us as one, a vast matrix, an army, a whole, each one of us responsible to one another, because no one else is.......people who have everything in common no matter where they're from, all these people know all the same things and truly hope for the same things, it's undeniable that they do, and if we can bring everyone to grab one part of the other, like an arm at the socket, everyone holding anothers arm at he socket, and if we can get everyone to, instead of just ripping the arm from the socket, instead to hold to it tight, and thus strengthening--- the, um- Like the human ocean moving as one, the undulating, the wave making--
´ahem´
´Or like a snowshoe´
´A snowshoe?´
´You wear snowshoes when the snow is deep and porous. The latticework within the snowshoe's oval distributes the wearer's weight over a wider area, in order to keep him or her from falling through the snow. so people, the connections between people, the people you know, become sort of a lattice, and the more people, good people, they must be good people, who know that they are there to help, the more of these people you know, and that know you, and know your situation and your story and your troubles or whatnot, the wider and stronger the lattice, and the less likely you are to--´
´Fall through the snow?´
´Right.´
´That is a mediocre metaphor´
´Yes. I'm working on it.´
Dave Eggers
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