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fractal007
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since 2000-06-01
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0 posted 2002-09-13 08:37 PM


I am myself;
There are no faces other than my own in this room here.

There's this guy that lives just down the road.
He's got some of the coolest ideas you've ever
heard of.  He believes in stuff that you'd say
was crap, and he loves to learn things that aren't
practical to us.

I am one of you, you know.  I'm not like him.
I live for the practical, not the theoretical.  I'm
not some dumb "thinker".  This is the reality and I'm
living in it.  We don't need all that higher thought.
We just need to know how to work with our hands.
We're on a need-to-know basis, and we don't need to
know.

But this guy down the road loves the theoretical.
He knows how to argue with you and force you to
come to come to the same conclusions he has.  But
he's willing to listen to you and respect your
point of view.  Isn't that neat?
I never knew it was possible.

In the privacy
of my own room I write out the terrible secret that
no one must know.  

When I'm with you I look back up the road from a
distance.  
You're an alien and we have no way of communicating.
I'm the sky, you're the earth.  It only looks as
though we meet.

But for now, I'll stuff myself in a corner for safekeeping
and be the me you want me to be.

"If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh"

-- Magus

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WhileIWasGone
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since 2002-07-18
Posts 486

1 posted 2002-09-14 12:37 PM


Great work....I enjoyed reading this very much.....


DeaDiAmore

arthur
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since 2001-08-14
Posts 678
england
2 posted 2002-09-14 11:07 AM


the sky and the earth only appear to meet
I like that
ps have a look at my reply to yr ?on mona
arthur

bsquirrel
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3 posted 2002-09-16 12:46 PM


F7,
Sometimes it's F8.

Mike

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