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i can relate to that. come right out and say it. i immediately connected this song with the dream i woke up with this morning. in the dream i loved a woman and i just wanted her to kiss me because she wanted to. but she didn't love me. i could see that so when she started to kiss me, i ran away.
i'm so depressed.

Originally posted by quentinscrisp:

Thinking about it, all the poignancy of love might consist in the tension between pride and it.

i hadn't thought of that. but i can see what you mean. kind of like love is a support of my ego. that's why it feels good to have your love go back and forth with equal intensity. or like of course she loves me... lots to see about this relationship between pride and love.

Clever post title. I was 'pulled in', as it were, thinking I was going to read an essay by you, but no, all I got was this video and the song. That was not what I was expecting. I am so depressed.

what a great way to wake up.

songs of experience and innocence... yes. great poems by william blake. i fed on them in my teens. still do when i have a chance.

Originally posted by quentinscrisp:

Yes... I like to trip people up like this.

It's a useful sprat to catch a mackerel. Btw... You no longer visit my pages and I suppose I should say I am so depressed, but that would not be accurate, though it is accurate for me to say I wonder why you never dropped by anymore. As far as I know, there has not been any break in our long virtual friendship, but then what do I know? Life is still full of mystery for me.

Don't be over modest. You know you get visitors each time you post and I suspect you are not unpleased by your readers who, as I can see from the evidence, engage with you in ways that must surely give you satisfaction through the interchanges. It's a truism that if everyone stopped visiting your pages you would be writing to yourself. That's also true for each of us. We would all be insular islands with no contact if we did not bother to reach out a little. I must say I should be visiting more blogs than I do, but having said that I do visit other blogs. Some of us may say we write for ourselves but in keeping our blogs public we are deliberately sharing our thoughts with whoever comes by, whether they have us on their news list or just happen to 'stumble' across our blogs So, please abate your modesty. I have met you in real life and read your blog over many years and I know you are a talented writer..

This will cheer you up:

omg richard...

apropo the two way street. i say, give a little get a little. "always give more than you get" will keep me on the sunny side of life.

Originally posted by I_ArtMan:

i say, give a little get a little. "always give more than you get" will keep me on the sunny side of life.

I think that's very true!

I always find the Carter Family uplifting - I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because they were recording during the Great Depression and doing their best to entertain, in a very homely way, a population enduring very hard times.

Things move on. Events, coincidences, cause and effect. All make some difference, perhaps a great difference, at various stages in our lives. Some years ago when your journal was written in a different tone, so it seemed, you had a lot of time on your hands and as I recall you were still waiting for success in the sense that you were trying to get your book published. My apology for not remembering the title but I do remember you celebrating when you published the work yourself. Only you know if that was a turning point, a leap, as it were, forward. But up to that point your journal was full of self doubt and signs that you had a lot of time on your hands. You may remember, in a general sense, my comments to such a thing back then. I applauded your writing as I tried to convince you of your talent, but your self doubt was strong and no matter what I said it did not disperse. The point I'm making is that from what you say now I infer things have changed a lot over the years. Being busy 24/7 is a dramatic change in comparison to those days. I hope it implies you are commercially successful in publishing your work now. That should diminish any self doubt.

You were and are a fine writer. That's a big understatement but it's deliberate. Were I to praise you in the way I used to I guess you would not be convinced.