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OneMoreRobot3021


Registered: 06/06/03
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I'm sitting next to a failed writer.
#5699621 - 06/01/06 01:09 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm hearing him talk to his friend about his novel, 24 years in the works. It's about space pirates. This man has skin pastier than cocaine, and hair as black as night. he is decked out in black, mainly leather, with studded belts and bracelets. He has yellow, rotting teeth with gaps between them and they jut in all directions. His eyes seem on the verge of separating from one another and floating loosely in his eyes. He's talking about his work, about twenty four years of writing and rewriting, and he reeks of cheap alcohol.
I turn 23 one week from today.
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Krishna
कृष्ण,LOL


Registered: 05/08/03
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at least bukowski had the booze & whores
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Redstorm
Prince of Bugs



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I hate reading or hearing about failed writers. It seems a lot like something I should be seeing on a fortune cookie.
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Penguarky Tunguin
f n o r d

Registered: 08/08/04
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Careful OMR. I would recommend not looking directly at him, but it seems like you've already done that.
For some reason I thought you were a lot older than 22....
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OneMoreRobot3021


Registered: 06/06/03
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Nope, I turn 23 exactly one week from today...been outta college and clueless for a year now.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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lowdominion
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are you starting to have a mid-life crisis at 22?
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OneMoreRobot3021


Registered: 06/06/03
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Loc: the sky
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Re: I'm sitting next to a failed writer. [Re: lowdominion]
#5699689 - 06/01/06 01:30 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah. How fucked up is that?!
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Jackenobi
Hermes


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I am 23 four weeks from today. Hooray. I am a complete bum as of today as i have handed in my final bachelor's assignment. I think 23 will be an age of self-sufficient positivity. At least, that is the plan.
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lowdominion
Stranger


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just relax and experience life man! There is plenty of time for you to be a great writer but you need something interesting to write about. Thats where experiencing life comes in.
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Brugman
antisobrietarian


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space pirates? I'd buy it.
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Cowgold
Bullshit


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I bet that book has become an obsession with him. If it were ever published he'd probably off himself from boredom.
Space pirates does sound pretty cool though... I'm guessing there's space sluts too. Eh? Eh? 
I thought you were maybe 24 or so...
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