-stargirl lonelygirl15 - ggl + other recent lonelygirl commentary ~
-crookedtimber---read cmmts on Divided by language
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--look thru sites of the commenters (name-links)
--read things fr links fr cmmts on Quite
eg clicked there on Mrs.Tilden and went to her site The Sixth International and found this post: If somebody a little less clever had written this, it would have been very funny:
with this sentence as the body of the post and itself a link to the post that contains it, on a blog called 'foreign dispatches'- '[M]y own personal experiences have left me much more easily able to identify with the Mozarts of the world than with those who stand in their shadows, and as such the subjective experience of life's Salieris remains something of a mystery to me.'
and this continues ... To be sure, I've met people whose talents in the fields I cared about outshone mine, but they were simply too few in number for me to feel any sort of personal slight from knowing they existed; on the contrary, given the nature of my own interests, being around such people always felt both inspirational and liberating, as one could speak one's mind without having to "dumb down" for the benefit of others likely to prove unappreciative or outright befuddled by what one had to say.
ok up til 'dumb down I tht maybe you'd say things I'd agree with but Oops dern it.
cmmt: Hmmm. Your megalomania is completely un-mysterious to me.
response: Megalomania? I was reading medical textbooks at 10, was studying graduate-level mathematics on my own at age 17, scored 1590 on the SAT before it was recentered (a record bettered by only 18 individuals in the entire world that year), and finished in the top 200 in the Putnam on my first go as a freshman, never having even heard of contests of that kind before then. How do *you* stand up to that record, hotshot? You know what's funny? Pathetic, resentful individuals like you who can't stand the thought that anyone just might be way better than they are at anything are the very people I had in mind when I wrote this post ...
and: I didn't say you weren't smart. I just hinted (and now I'll put it a little more plainly) that you're an asshole.
"You're not wrong, man. You're just an asshole." Big Lebowski -The Dude to whatshisname played by John Goodman
oh dear. from there gets worse. gets horribble quickly over there in the comments. just awful evth the main guy says, it's just witnessing against himself, like, screaming. the above cmmtr he calls a troll is hardly that and then he turns agnst someone who seems to me be supporting him by denouncing his 'troll' but ok sheesh.
I don't know, guess am not much for articulating what's the issue here for me. if you talk real fancy well real lerned you seem to show me that you're not smart.-- (not in the way I want and think is real intelligence. wisdom but I don't care for that word much. self-assurance, really. that's involved) --why? conformative. (maybe that's it.) shows a conforming. a need? so you've learned a bunch of rules and words, you know how to write by them. "I aint impressed."
here's where I get all look I can do that in my sleep (although really can I, anymore, after giving such free reign rain to this associative ramble idiosyn marking writing ? well sure, if give me a motivation. give me where to stand and I will move the frikkin world. he said. Archimedes? anyway yes I can still play by the rules probably. if can't it's bcs can't stand it, which, okay, is one way to be unable.)
anyway in short: pedantic.
authority-believing.
and it's like the contrary, man, the contrary of transcendent.
although. is it transcendence or is it boredom. is it ___ or is it __.
"I guess I just got bored. and then it was such a long way back." sweet Abe in Tender is the Night.
my kind of intelligence~ has known it all already. "Have known the mornings, evenings, afternoons. have measured out my life in coffeespoons." have known them all, known them all, already. presentiments, intuitions. tvz too. tse and tvz. you hear it all through, everything they say. everything they sing.
my kind of intelligence ~ poetry. but what use to say so?
there's a sunny disposition intelligence too. I believe. don't meet it often? but feel it deserves my belief and respect, admiration. a sharp mind in touch with facts. well now talking pier not alzn so sunny disposition not the distinction, just - an intelligence that knows information.
(vs) knowing all already, not holding any of it as -information-. jaime, after luwana says ~ " (sth to) put up on it" to mean ' (sth to) put it on' ~ "In the south we go for the gist."
I get the feel of it, babe. and have had it since Day.One. for that matter though pier is always saying 'you know' so she might actually have known it all already *and* have informative details ready-to-speech. she's great, really great. initial letter capitalized Great.
oh and look down at the bttm, a reasonable sunny intelligent comment from a name I recognize from the Quite thread-
I don't understand why this has turned into a thread about prodigies; "Amadeus" would be a much less interesting play if Salieri had been jealous of Mozart's exam results. Or indeed, if jealousy had been his motivation. I think that guy in the Chronicle has completely misunderstood the play. The whole point of Salieri is that he doesn't resent Mozart as a professional rival (Shaffer added a few scences to the film which point that way but they're a mistake). What motivates him is the injustice that Mozart's music is produced by a dysfunctional, crass irreligious idiot like Mozart. It makes him fundamentally question his religious faith; Salieri in the lay has built his entire personality on the principle that music is a gift from God and an expression of the divine Will. Mozart's existence makes him question this; he ends up believing that God is playing tricks on him. Posted by: dsquared | February 15, 2006 at 03:00 PM