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remmers
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Pastime
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Mar 24 05:08 UTC 1993 |
When I was a child, my father would often go to the office on weekeneds,
and I would tag along.
Yes yes I would tag along yes I would yowza yep uh huh.
He in his office ensconced, the building deserted, quiet, not even the
faint echo of Friday's footfall. I having the run of the corridors, the
stairwells, and best of all - the elevator.
Push the button and it will come.
The muffled murmer of the motor, the door silently majestically opening,
the first time it happened was always the best. Powerful yet respectful
gentle servant, there to do my bidding.
Into the cab on 3, push G, wait for the door to close, feel the slight
lift when downward motion begins, the subtle pressure of stopping, then
push 2, get off, race up the stairs to meet the elevator. Could I win
against my own servant? I would set up contests.
Ten million years later the game ended. The crowds never returned that
Monday, nor Tuesday, nor the thousands upon thousands of Mondays and
Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays following. Yet never
did I tire of roaming endlessly the corridors, nor never did my servant
fail me. At the end of the ten millionth year, I knocked upon my father's
office door.
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carl
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response 1 of 38:
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Mar 24 22:18 UTC 1993 |
Wow.
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carl
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response 2 of 38:
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Mar 24 22:19 UTC 1993 |
I'm sitting in suspense wondering if he answered...
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carl
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response 3 of 38:
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Jan 23 03:01 UTC 1994 |
Okay, so I haven't really been sitting all this time.
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vidar
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response 4 of 38:
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Jan 23 03:07 UTC 1994 |
rand you'd have a sore butt if you had!
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rcurl
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response 5 of 38:
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Jan 23 05:34 UTC 1994 |
I worry about Ten million years. All else is on a very human scale, but
Ten million years is beyond human comprehension, except as a number. I
would like to change Ten million years, but am unsure to what. No number
fits; makes sense; closes the metaphor; answers the question. I wait.
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yagi
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response 6 of 38:
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Feb 19 05:41 UTC 1994 |
...ten trillion years.....
(has a better flow)
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ziggy
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response 7 of 38:
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Feb 19 20:09 UTC 1994 |
no it doesn't!
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vidar
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response 8 of 38:
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Feb 20 01:23 UTC 1994 |
Don't talk back young man!
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ziggy
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response 9 of 38:
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Feb 24 00:34 UTC 1994 |
kiss my nose many times over.
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kami
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response 10 of 38:
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Mar 1 06:56 UTC 1994 |
500th year- forever or a lifetime in a kid's imagination.
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vidar
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response 11 of 38:
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Mar 1 19:39 UTC 1994 |
What?
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kami
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response 12 of 38:
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Mar 4 19:29 UTC 1994 |
kids like big numbers. When they can count more-or-less to 20 and have heard
of 100, 1000, etc., they will randomly assign amounts in the mid hundreds or
thousands to anything they see as large: 20-99 seems too familiar but hasn't
an exact referent, ten-thousands+ are too complicated. Soon after that, they
will add numbers like "500 thousand million" to mean unimaginably big.
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remmers
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response 13 of 38:
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Mar 4 20:43 UTC 1994 |
I am a bat. I swoop about my the cave; sometimes they think I cannot
but collide with the wall or the ceiling, but it never happens. I
always change my course at the last instant.
Yet there is more to it than this. For you see, I have the power to
make the cave ten feet higher.
(Thank you, Michael Delizia.)
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ziggy
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response 14 of 38:
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Mar 4 20:51 UTC 1994 |
I am a giraffe llama cross-breed.
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vidar
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response 15 of 38:
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Mar 4 20:55 UTC 1994 |
AndI'm goat cheese...
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vishnu
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response 16 of 38:
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Mar 4 22:10 UTC 1994 |
And i'm a cross of them all. A ggirat cheese
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kami
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response 17 of 38:
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Mar 5 04:53 UTC 1994 |
bless you! does everyone have a cold today?
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vidar
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response 18 of 38:
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Mar 5 15:06 UTC 1994 |
No, I've just come back from the dead to check my e-mail. Or at least
I felt like i was going to die sometime this week, when I was at the
Commie High dance last night. I spent most of the dance sleeping on a
brick windowsill (Ouch!).
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md
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response 19 of 38:
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Mar 7 14:10 UTC 1994 |
And has this simile a like perfection?
The mind is like a bat. Precisely, save
That in the very happiest intellection
A graceful error may correct the cave.
You're welcome.
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ziggy
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response 20 of 38:
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Mar 8 19:42 UTC 1994 |
I'm loser baby so why don't you kill me?
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vidar
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response 21 of 38:
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Mar 8 21:37 UTC 1994 |
Fine. I will...
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kami
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response 22 of 38:
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Mar 9 06:01 UTC 1994 |
reduce (no- small enough already) reuse (feeling used and abused?) recycle-
got to die to be born again. And again. And again. And
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ziggy
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response 23 of 38:
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Mar 9 15:59 UTC 1994 |
Well, if there is a rock cycle, a water cycle, why isn't there a soul cycle?
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vidar
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response 24 of 38:
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Mar 9 19:12 UTC 1994 |
There is, I've already been 1/2 way through it!
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