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- From: moscoso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Innocuous Punch)
- Subject: Angst death
- Message-ID: <C1FD9s.J2s@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:39:14 GMT
- Lines: 62
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- With all the talk over some individuals here critisizing others for their
- lack of angst, or ineptitude for expression, I'm goin to tread dreadfully
- close to the shores of angst. Maybe I'm just standing out on a thin jetty
- for an instant. In any case, bear with me...
-
- "Things are going well."
-
- There. I said it. Let this not deceive you into thinking I've disowned
- this group. I'll always lurk. However, you may ask why I'm even bringing
- up the fact that things are going well.
-
- In less words than usual, I'll say that the above quote carries a lot of
- darker connotations. I'll assume that angst has a long life-span, although
- I've noticed in myself and in others the oscillations between severe angst
- and recreational angst. Oooh! Oooh! A chart!!
-
- _________________________________________________
- | | | |
- | Severe Angst | Angst | Recreational Angst |
- |________________|_________|______________________|
- | | | |
- | what you will | life | more contemplative |
- | | | |
- |________________|_________|______________________|
-
- I would classify severe angst as incorporating those elements surpassing daily
- existence (for example, "my car won't start, my fridge is broken, and I've
- recently made arms deals with unstable characters. Everyone's after me."
-
- Then regular angst (as seen in Table 1.1) is more an inability to
- integrate one's daily existence with the curious project we initiate to fit
- all sensory data into a neat and (MOST IMPORTANTLY) stable bundle, or paradigm.
-
- Where does my initial quote fit in? Where, in fact, do I fit in? Well, let
- me continue... I have an important project due tomorrow. It may mean beans
- to you, so I won't mention it. But I'm stressing, not angsting. The more I
- consider this difference, the more I can understand why some of us here label
- others as not "true" to alt.angst's ""charter""...
- So I'm wary to call some of this stuff angst. Don't ask me for
- lexical references to my view of angst. I ain't got none. I'm flying hair-
- less, like many of the rest of us. Oh well. I'm stressing, for the most
- part.
-
- So my angst is recreational. I, in a sense, can _afford_ to angst
- right now. It's not trivial, but merely secondary. If someone comes up to
- me now wanting to talk about something happy, I'd probably oblige and find
- it in me to participate, even contribute to the festivities. I can afford
- to put off this contemplation.
-
- I'm just explaining myself. Ask me next week, when I'll probably be angsting.
-
- --
- -ivan
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- OBrelationship-angst: I did everything I could to try and bump into her
- "accidentally" this morning, but since that failed,
- I'm goin to have to bite the bullet and call. And
- she won't be amused, but I have to get these feelings
- of senseless hope off my @#%@ chest.
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