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Re: CHAT: The love of inventing & conscripts (Was: Re: I'm new!)

From:Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
Date:Sunday, October 22, 2000, 6:10
>From: jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...> >>I still do :-(. When I passively ride in a vehicle, I imagine the exact >same sword cutting down *everything* on the side of the road. Or I >imagine that there is someone that has to ride on the side of the road >along the tops of trees or telephone wires and he has to keep up with the >car by jumping or whatever. It can be very irritating, but almost >involuntary. >
This is too weird. How many of us do this same thing?? I'm guilty. Is this all part of one huge neurotic OCD whose end result is conlanging??? *erie background music*
>I still try not to step on cracks in the sidewalk. >
Or alternately try to step on all of them, or certain patterns of them, or catch them exactly where the instep of your shoe meets the heel. *more music* Adam
>(trying to get rid of my bizarre obsessions) >Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu >"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and >improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and >intoxicate. It is the old things that are young." >-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_
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