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- From: pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: stuff
- Message-ID: <JcHsXB2w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:34:42 EST
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- Organization: darkpark
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- > Say WHAT? Death is NOTHING!!! LIFE is where your problems lie. I hold
- > with my original diagnosis... decide the PAST has nothing to do with
- > the present YOU and that "hole" fades.
-
- Yeah, but how can you neatly reconcile your past without UTTERLY cutting
- yourself off from it?
-
- A friend of mine went to live across the country, and though he
- eventually returned, the move was meant to be permanent. During this
- time, mutual friends told me how shocked they were that he'd go somewhere
- like that where he has no friend or family, where he's never been before.
- I tried to explain to them the benefits -- a clean break with all of the
- accumilated bullshit, a chance to start utterly from scratch, but they
- just didn't understand.
-
- I'd like to do that sometime, wish I had the emotional and financial
- strength to flush it all down and put roots down in a place where no
- one's every heard of me. Not that my past is so terribly monstrous, mind
- you, but the idea of leaving an old life behind has a very strong
- attraction.
-
- In any event, back to the point; how is what you advocate possible?
- Hell, I have a string of old friends and girlfriends and people I've know
- trailing behind me; my relationship with these people, for the most part,
- ended painfully and violently, and I don't care to see or think of them
- again. Problem is, I keep bumping into them. The past, it seems, will not
- die.
-
- marlowe
-
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- "And there she lulled me asleep,
- And there I dream'd -- Ah! woe betide!
- The latest dream I ever dream'd
- On the cold hill's side."
- -John Keats
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