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PrinceMyshkin
06-29-2007, 09:28 PM
Somewhere in each of us
the way is set from which
our straightest paths
diverge a quarter-inch


till we are country miles
from where we started out,
babbling eagerly
in some indecipherable tongue.


J. Newman Sudden Proclamations © 1992
ampoule
06-29-2007, 09:39 PM
How very very true. It's like being blindfolded and spun around in Pin the Tail on the Donkey and someone saying, 'there, straight ahead'.
PrinceMyshkin
06-29-2007, 09:41 PM
How very very true. It's like being blindfolded and spun around in Pin the Tail on the Donkey and someone saying, 'there, straight ahead'.

Many thanks, but I don't see how chocolate fits into this equation?
Mortis Anarchy
06-29-2007, 09:42 PM
Many thanks, but I don't see how chocolate fits into this equation?

Chocolate?
PrinceMyshkin
06-29-2007, 09:44 PM
Chocolate?

You know, the stuff made from cocoa beans? Some prefer it dark, some milk. (actually it's a prvate joke between Ampoule and me).
Mortis Anarchy
06-29-2007, 09:55 PM
OH! I was totally confused. I kept re-reading everything just to make sure I wasn't insane!
PrinceMyshkin
06-29-2007, 09:58 PM
OH! I was totally confused. I kept re-reading everything just to make sure I wasn't insane!

And my reply convinced you that you're not? I should be charging for that!
PrinceMyshkin
07-20-2007, 08:18 AM
Predict the unpredictable!
Plan, if you can, to be surprised.
Approach each corner
as if it were the straightest of roads
and expect every straight road
to turn. Fool yourself!

Never trust you are
whom you thought yourself to be.


Jerry Newman © June 30, 2007
Pendragon
07-20-2007, 08:25 AM
Never trust you are
whom you thought yourself to be.


Words to live by, I would say...

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ampoule
07-20-2007, 08:41 AM
Predict the unpredictable!
Plan, if you can, to be surprised.
Approach each corner
as if it were the straightest of roads
and expect every straight road
to turn. Fool yourself!

Never trust you are
whom you thought yourself to be.


Jerry Newman © June 30, 2007

I thought for sure you were going to say, "Approach each corner as if the boogeyman was there, ready to scare the poopers out of you!" :D But see, I wasn't predicting the unpredictable.
motherhubbard
07-21-2007, 03:10 PM
Prince, I’ve read both of these several times. I like the first one better. I picture two lovers reaching for each other with heads turned eager to kiss, but missing at the last moment and unable to turn around. I especially like the way you often end without really closing things up. It leaves my heart open to the next possibility.
dramasnot6
07-21-2007, 11:37 PM
I like these, very inspirational :) Something to put on a magnet and stick on the fridge or my locker to pick me up.