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I Marvel................

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Mon Oct 8 03:49:43 2001

At the natural phenomenon of the Universe from it's vastness with it's diverse forces and worlds with no end.

To the fury of a spring thunderstorm and how the dew hangs on the stately leaves of ash in the cool morning mists.

To the supple movement's of a young woman and a smile that shines above the aura of the sun in all it's shimmering glory.

Then I think of how I one day will be master of it all, and how all this will stand there and marvel at me.

-AYB

OscarWilde

Mon Oct 8 04:00:16 2001

Very poetic. I like. Yours or someone elses line?
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Mon Oct 8 04:10:32 2001

All mine, as you can tell by the -AYB on the end.

I just sort of made it up, spur of the moment type stuff.

I am ambitious, no?

:)

Imitation Gruel

Mon Oct 8 04:19:12 2001

          "The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analysis.

           To explain -- since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation -- every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

           The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

           Trin Tragula -- for that was his name -- was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

           And she would nag him incessantly about the  utter inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.

           "Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

           And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex -- just to show her.

           And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife:  so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

           To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain;  but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."

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Riso

Mon Oct 8 10:22:08 2001

Didn't I have a Katie Holmes poster on my Homepage?