Dance in the Full Moon

Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

2.21b

I keep waiting for something to go right, but. My arms feel sad. My legs.

10 comments:

  1. anelles47February 21, 2012 at 6:22 PM

    ROBBY THIS IS YOUR 221B POST AND IT IS THE SADDEST THING WHICH MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE BECAUSE SHERLOCK IS BREAKING MY HEART BUT GOODNESS please don't be sad, even in fiction.

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  2. AshleeFebruary 21, 2012 at 6:46 PM

    Sometimes I really feel that there's a loop on which I am not. (You know, I re-wrote that sentence and made it awkward to avoid the preposition at the end dooley-bob that Robby hates so much.)

    How can arms feel sad? Are arms sentient? (That would be very...weird.) Or is it that the heavy weight sadness, where it feels like one's arms are made out of lead? Why would the 1st person narrator be thinking like this? What would have sparked it? Was it sparked? Or slowly built up over the burden of time? Hmm...

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  3. Robby Van ArsdaleFebruary 21, 2012 at 7:05 PM

    I think the loop drove past me, too, Ashlee.

    Arms can feel sad. Can't they? I think they can.

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  4. Robby Van ArsdaleFebruary 21, 2012 at 7:06 PM

    I just really like how short and sweet this post is. The last "sentence," in context of the other two, just makes me go "WOAH WRITE MORE LIKE THAT, ROBBY." And I can't.

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  5. AshleeFebruary 21, 2012 at 7:07 PM

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    1. AshleeFebruary 21, 2012 at 7:09 PM

      I'm sure you could, but you might have to be in the write mood.

      This is what I had before I removed it: Perhaps. But I still don't think I want to have arms which are sentient. That would creep me the heck out.

      As for loops, maybe it's like when I went to get the glass replaced today: I turn left when I'm supposed to go right. What that exactly means, I'm not entirely sure.

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  6. anelles47February 21, 2012 at 8:15 PM

    I think arms and legs feel sad because we are connected to our bodies. They aren't sentient, but they do express how we feel. Eyes cry when people are sad, for instance, and people sometimes get headaches when they're stressed. Whenever I am trying to express some deep part of myself to someone, I tremble all over and cannot stop; when I think I have made a mistake, I get nauseous. I broke my arm once and then I got tendonitis, so I'm pretty in tune with my arms . . . you know, I'm just going to stop now.

    There is no loop. At least, not one of which I know.

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  7. Robby Van ArsdaleFebruary 22, 2012 at 11:13 AM

    Yeah, bodies are kind of interesting like that. They work. I think.

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