Cale (1593 hits)
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Submitted by cale shapera <caleshapera.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-06-27 23:26:23 EDT
"The Late Man" by Andreas Schroeder
There is nothing particularly unusual about this man except
perhaps a certain slight hesitation in his manner; the hesitation
of a man for whom the world became at some point intensely
suspect, for whom, at that point, a glass on a table became less
and less a glass on a table and more and more a thing too
strange and amazing to grasp by name.
I think this passage illuminates well the author's thoughts on the nature of knowledge, curiosity and perspective. I can relate to this in one specific way: My name. Cale. I don't particularly like the name, Cale. It's not long, or extravagent, it's not very common, but that's irrelevant. It's just that like The Late Man, occasionally my name becomes more than a name to me. Hearing someone say my name can draw me out of everyday life, and make me more aware of my small, yet special existance. I wish I could put it into words better. Saying "Cale" realizes me as a human being infinitely more meaningful than saying "hey". I don't believe myself to be more insecure than anyone else, but being addressed without name is like being filed along as another generic inhabitant of Earth. Being addressed by name on the other hand is like having all your human differences and frailties realized so in a manner so concise that it causes you to examine yourself as a person.
On a side note, do you ever wonder how often people talk about you and you don't know it? Not talking behind your back, or gossiping, but just acknowledging you and knowing you. Have you ever talked about someone random, like someone you discovered over the internet, or some unattainable girl? I wonder what people's reaction would be if they found out everything people had said about them. Just some random thoughts.
One last thing: Do you guys compose your posts in word, or write them straight into the window on ubersite. I just write it into the window, but just wondering what the majority of people do.
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Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-07-14 02:40:40 EDT (#)
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oh man i hate this to review this shit post and bring it back to the front page, but i missed that review. too fuckin funny and true.
from: bjork - dancer in the dark.
Submitted by europameistershaft at 2004-06-30 03:45:16 EDT (#)
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to quote bjork:
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen SEVENTY TWO seventeen
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-28 20:38:16 EDT (#)
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I gave you a -1 cause that's what I felt it deserved. Then I gave you a +1 because Brendan was going happygonuts. Then you came and give me a -2 =)
To quote Bjork
if you ever get close to a human
and human behaviour
be ready be ready to get confused
there's definitely definitely definitely no logic
to human behaviour
but yet so yet so irresistible
and there's no map to human behaviour
they're terribly terribly terribly terribly moody
then all of a sudden turn happy
but, oh, to get involved in the exchange
of human emotions
is ever so ever so satisfying
and there's no map
and a compass wouldn't help at all
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-06-28 20:22:37 EDT (#)
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Yeah man, it helps if you submit it after it's finished.
It also helps when you don't go around rating posts just because you little friend told you to help him out. You have potential.
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-28 20:12:42 EDT (#)
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I never did anything to you =(
But maybe it is a -2 post, maybe I'll do something else when I don't submit it without finishing it =)
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-06-28 18:47:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Whaddup Dawg?
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-28 16:39:14 EDT (#)
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from europe, with love.
KAKAKAKAKAKAKA
Submitted by oscar_meyer_rifkenhousen (user info) at 2004-06-28 07:51:17 EDT (#)
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I LIEK! smartboy!
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-28 02:03:04 EDT (#)
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haha thanks homeboy
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2004-06-28 01:45:25 EDT (#)
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Heh, +1 for that comment.
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-28 01:38:28 EDT (#)
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when method rated is 0 with no comment, my first thought was, i dont like that fucka lets see what he wrote lately.
then i realized i wish he would empregnate me so i can carry his babies.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2004-06-28 01:35:15 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-28 01:26:38 EDT (#)
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someday ima make a fuckin FEAST for thought.
then ima eat it.
or someone else could.
*_*
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2004-06-28 00:47:05 EDT (#)
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Good stuff. Good food for thought.
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-28 00:38:30 EDT (#)
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megay.
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-28 00:06:51 EDT (#)
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Break a dick, you dick breaking dead monkey cock licking ball-licker.
Submitted by munado at 2004-06-27 23:34:19 EDT (#)
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hi
the best that you wrote was this:
On a side note, do you ever wonder how often people talk about you and you don't know it? Not talking behind your back, or gossiping, but just acknowledging you and knowing you. Have you ever talked about someone random, like someone you discovered over the internet, or some unattainable girl? I wonder what people's reaction would be if they found out everything people had said about them. Just some random thoughts.
Submitted by repsik (user info) at 2004-06-27 23:32:30 EDT (#)
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Deep sir, deep. I liked it.
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-06-27 23:27:49 EDT (#)
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Hahahaha, coincidentally I just learned that I should do mine in word, because I just pressed submit instead of preview. Was going to proof read and add some more things.