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Re: 'Breathe' @ Chapbook

mXe — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:47:49 -0000

Yeah? That makes sense to me. Still, sometimes, it's not so much the inherent strength that I would wish to gain from a statement that I want to utilize, it's the curiousity that arises from the use of a question. I don't like to force ideals so much, and that's what I feel like I'm doing when I rely solely on statements.

When I use questions, while it may not leave the same impact as a statement, the reader could be left to wonder... what if he were talking to me? Who exactly is he talking to? Are these questions accurate of the person? It's the weak nature of a question that makes it so interesting.

But I will try that out, see if that makes it any more funsies.. Thanks.

Re: 'Answering Machine' @ Chapbook

mXe — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:52:18 -0000

Pretty good job you did here, were you to ask me. Granted, I think it loses the touch that my original one had, but then again, you don't write in my style, so I couldn't expect you to have it like the original. Besides, it's your derivative.

You eschewed one of my favourite values in writing, that is to say, detached focus, but the extra clarity provided by this at least grabs the attention of the reader more, were you to ask me. It doesn't leave the reader with confusion.

Re: 'Answering Machine' @ Chapbook

mXe — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:54:40 -0000

It surely does make things fun. Haha.
Also, if you ever need someone to help code the site, just saying, I can help. I'm a bit rusty when it comes to Ruby, but I've been meaning to take it back up, and I learn extremely fast, generally. So yeah.

Re: 'Answering Machine' @ Chapbook

mXe — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:19:43 -0000

Not before, but I've been meaning to look into it.
Again, I can learn quite fast. Haha.

Re: 'Comatose State' @ Chapbook

mXe — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:25:26 -0000

Not really any story behind it. One night, I was... extremely depressed, I guess, and that's what came out of it. Comatose states. Being blocked out from the world.
You know. Lonely.

Re: 'Breathe' @ Chapbook

mXe — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:30:27 -0000

No way would I ever ignore any constructive criticism. I understand what you're getting at there. But like I think I said, and I can check but I am just too lazy, I'm a vague person. I write according to my nature.

But I will try that in the future. It's just... I'm periphrastic by nature, and it's a nature I enjoy about myself. It helps me remain even more vague. I feel if I want to make a concrete point, I will speak concrete. I like to live and think in the abstract, as much as possible. It feels good.

But I will surely try that out. Thank you for the suggestions, and of course, the criticism. I very much appreciate it.

Re: 'Old Kodak Snap Labeled "Justin"'

mXe — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:19:23 -0000

You people and your being published!
I once thought about sending some of my work out to be published. Do you think that I should?
Like, would you think that it possesses substantial enough... what's the word... style, or some variation thereof, to be published?

Re: 'Technology'

mXe — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:19:39 -0000

I was actually debating between flotsam and jetsam, and I was going to continue the concept on the next line and say "and jetsam" at the beginning. I'm used to hearing the phrase being said "flotsam and jetsam" so I started with flotsam, but I couldn't convey what I wanted, at least, in my mind, and fit the metre if I were to use the second part of the phrase, so I sort of left it.

Re: 'Alternatives to Sleeping'

mXe — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:46:32 -0000

oh god how did this get here am not good with computar.
I am. Haha.

Re: 'Alternatives to Sleeping'

mXe — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:14:38 -0000

Good question, why not ask it? But yeah, I'm not so sure about how the formatting works on this damn thing anyways. Haha.
Perhaps you could clarify. I had used the buttons but it didn't work out so well.

Re: '"Apathy," he wrote.'

mXe — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:43:35 -0000

Haha. It does answer the question. I will edit it in just a moment. I sort of just included it in there as a reminder that's the sort of focal point.

Re: 'Advisor'

mXe — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:27:41 -0000

Well, it's supposed to imply that there are indeed multiple canes, as there are multiple people. At least, in the south, when you use folk, it can often times refer to many people. Context clues! Haha. I guess I should clarify...
But yes, there are multiple people, each one with a cane. I should have said pipes, probably, but I think that it flows fine the way it is and conveys it properly.
Thanks for the thoughts!
Oh crap. i forgot to click the reply button. Oh well!

Re: 'Stop.'

mXe — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:40:40 -0000

Good question. Haha. Old poem is old. I actually, after posting this, discovered that I previously posted it. Under pretty much the exact same name. So I just deleted the old one. I think that might be a nice tool to have. If you submit something and it matches something else word for word, barring whitespace, then it might be a wise idea to disallow submitting. Haha.
But in any case, I think I was just having fun.

Re: 'Synechdoche'

mXe — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:06:10 -0000

Thank you. I see what you mean there, but the phrase beauty isn't meant so much to refer to the pieces or even the flower itself, but rather, to biological functioning. I mean, you crush a flower, it dies. Haha. The loss of beauty was a metaphor for the loss of life, and if I were to just come out and say it, I don't think it would just be the same.

Re: 'De Isla Mujeres'

mXe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:18:02 -0000

All Web 2.0 apps need unnecessary controls for expressing one's opinion!

Re: 'Song of Yourself'

mXe — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:34:25 -0000

It's actually something I wrote a month or so ago; I have another one that I am about to post, actually, in this boat.

Re: 'aleatora'

mXe — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:43:35 -0000

1994 really has no significance whatsoever. I fed a large amount of data into an old project of mine, a text generator based on random sampling of previous passages input into it; I merely took a sample and broke it up, laid it out, and arrange it how I felt best. A bit of found art noveau, I suppose.

Re: 'bop-bop-a-lu-bop'

mXe — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:41:40 -0000

wat

Re: 'what the world is truly'

mXe — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:35:05 -0000

Appreciate it.

As per the poetry tingling against my skin part, that was more or less actually just a reference to the future mention of water. I mean, I wouldn't consider it an anthropomorphism; I was trying to equivocate water and beach turf to poetry.