No one had ever stood at that exact spot before. (713 hits)
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Submitted by d_prime <dprime.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2005-11-23 02:21:26 EST
No one had ever stood at that exact spot before. Not one. He was the first man ever to do so. This fact would have been meaningless in other situations, but there it wasn't, because his state of mind reflected the esthetic value of what it represented. He had that special feeling which one can only get when one is lonely.
"I'll never forget you," she'd said. At that moment, he had felt one pang of irrational emotion.
But, it didn't last, as he reminded himself of what she really represented.
He had indeed seen a girl earlier, but by that time she was long since forgotten. All he saw was the sea, the mist, the mountains, and the buildings that would soon rise even higher. His body, six feet in length, wasn't as tall as the mountains in the distance. And, at the same time, the mountains weren't as tall as his mind.
The writer, the romantic, the philosopher, the industrialist, the rational individual mind. He sang them all in silent thought.
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Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-25 16:02:47 EST (#)
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I have more respect for HTDB than Zakalwe because HTDB seems to have ideological difference with me along with a huge misconception of who I am, while Zakalwe seems to be plain old dick.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2005-11-23 14:26:08 EST (#)
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Not really sure what that all means, but was a fair bit of writing.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-11-23 10:26:00 EST (#)
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I was certain this was the painting of François René Chateaubriand.
Heh.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-11-23 09:26:39 EST (#)
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Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:32:14 (#)
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I don't reference a spear in the prose, do I?
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I think he was referencing some prehistoric (or perhaps pre-Roman) hunter/gatherer/nomad.
I didn't hate this though, it just seemed too short.
Submitted by full_frontal (user info) at 2005-11-23 08:42:00 EST (#)
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BORING
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-11-23 07:53:52 EST (#)
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Is that Peter the Great?
Submitted by w_t_a_y_s_t_r_m (user info) at 2005-11-23 05:32:49 EST (#)
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I'm fairly sure I was there before him when I battled with Zeus for ownership of the magic Gondola.
He won.
Submitted by Fabit (user info) at 2005-11-23 04:53:37 EST (#)
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I liked this. Some good writing on Uber today.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-11-23 04:35:12 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 04:15:39 EST (#)
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He's obviously magic.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-11-23 04:04:26 EST (#)
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If that dude was truly capable of rational thought he'd have worn shoes more suited to mountain climbing.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-11-23 03:59:30 EST (#)
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whats wrong with this?
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:52:45 EST (#)
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Thanks. Now I know how to read dates.
I don't see why the way one writes should be tied down to what's popular in any given era.
Submitted by PokeyPecker (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:50:38 EST (#)
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The 1800's went out on the last hour of the last day of December, in the year 1899.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:40:48 EST (#)
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A lot of people think romanticism is gay. I've always thought that writing about depraved losers is the sort of thing that gives one a state of mind that would turn one to homosexuality.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:39:04 EST (#)
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sorry, i like to see creative writing, but thats jsut gay.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:36:11 EST (#)
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Poly, those are all positions and actions that reflect (at least to him) a romantic sense of life and a sense of progression/achivement. 'He sang them all in silent though' means that how he felt right there was a type of exaltation which reflects them so strongly it's as though he's singing about them. 'Sang them in silent thought.'
I'm tired and my English isn't at it's best as of now, but I think you get it.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:32:14 EST (#)
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I don't reference a spear in the prose, do I?
Submitted by polymorph505 (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:32:01 EST (#)
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2 more
Submitted by polymorph505 (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:31:51 EST (#)
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Hell I'll give you
Submitted by nate (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:31:24 EST (#)
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Was not referring to the guy in the painting
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:31:08 EST (#)
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haha, gimme one more and that'll make it 1.33
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:30:51 EST (#)
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You only gave me a 0, bud.
Submitted by polymorph505 (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:30:50 EST (#)
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Damnit, brain, I said +2!
Submitted by polymorph505 (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:30:28 EST (#)
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It's a swizzle stick.
"The writer, the romantic, the philosopher, the industrialist, the rational individual mind. He sang them all in silent thought."
I still can't wrap my head around this one, but +2 for making me try.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:28:07 EST (#)
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There's nothing so naive as cynicism.
It looks more like a staff or something to me.
Submitted by nate (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:26:46 EST (#)
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I'm sure at least one bone-nosed, spear carrying fuck had stood there before him
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-11-23 02:22:19 EST (#)
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The painting's by Caspar David Friedrich. I wrote this after seeing it.