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| # | Comment | Survey |
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| 21 | Here's one: Lying in knee-high yellow grass on a sunny early-summer day with M***, staring into each other's eyes, holding, radiating something sacred back and forth. Then running into the wilderness, getting lost in a thicket of razor-edged parallel vertical reeds with sharp thorns that stuck out at 90 degree angles, the sun turning them into a maze of black and yellow and white, and my senses losing center. Then running in the hot sun, (was I chasing him or was he chasing me?) and the passion was suddenly dangerous, foreign, animal, uncontrolled. And he was gone, and I feared for him, and tried to catch up with him, but I stumbled into mesquite brambles and devils'-walkingsticks, and finally tripped into a barbed-wire fence, ripping my jeans. When I found him, he was hunkered over himself like a scared animal. I don't recall how we made our way out, but somehow we were walking side by side, feeling very weird. I was in high school, and it was afternoon, and I wasn't sure which class I was due for (or how many I had missed) but my body found its way to Astronomy, and I walked in looking certainly freakish: long hair a tangled mess, torn jeans and bloodied legs, thorns in my skin, and quite probably wild-eyed and vacant. Nobody made a comment or questioned me, which I was partly grateful for, and partly deeply unsettled by. It was like I was no longer a part of their reality. Anyhow, there were many surreal experiences, and it's no wonder, for he was the most extreme, brilliant, and unusual person I had ever encountered. And it also seemed inevitable that one or the other of us, or both, would commit suicide. He beat me to it, and the grief taught me the horror of doing it to those who loved me, so I never did. | What's been your most surreal experience? |
| 22 | Hepatitis B. I didn't have casual sex, didn't do drugs, didn't have any reason to suspect I might have it, so when I contracted it via long-term household contact with someone who had it (who didn't tell me he had it!) I didn't know why I had absolutely no energy, and couldn't even stand to sip a beer, for several months on end! I was in college, was athletic, and generally very healthy, and just thought that I was feeling the effects of driving myself too hard. So I slept a great deal, avoided drink to my great disappointment, for I had a lusty enjoyment of my favorite pizza and beer place, and the first time I knew I had contracted, been sick with, and recovered from, and was now immune to Hep B was a letter from a hospital that screened the blood I gave at a campus blood drive. I was terrified, looked it up online, found out that it could have killed me, especially untreated, and thanked my lucky stars that I hadn't been sexually active, and that my body communicated to me not to drink any alcohol. Eventually, it seems my liver recovered, though my capacity for drink was never quite as robust, and my strength recovered, but for the rest of my life I will bear the stigma whenever my blood is tested that I have antibodies to Hep B, and I have to be more cautious about things like alcohol and acetaminophen (Tylenol) which can really hurt my liver. And don't believe anyone who tells you that you cannot catch serum viruses except by sex or blood contact. I caught Hep B through household contact, at a time when I was not having any sex and certainly not doing any drugs. | What was the most serious illness you have suffered from? |
| 23 | How bout human beings? | If you could rid the Earth of one of these things, which would it be? |
| 24 | No, wait! How bout cockroaches? Surely the ecosystem could get along without them? | If you could rid the Earth of one of these things, which would it be? |
| 25 | A sunrise? | What is the most beautiful thing you can have that won't cost you anything? |
| 26 | I hope you were being sarcastic about the baby thing. They say nothing else you're likely to acquire in life will ever cost so much. | What is the most beautiful thing you can have that won't cost you anything? |
| 27 | Depends. I have been in the inner circle before, but in most situations nowadays in which I am dealing with other people, I have so little in common with them that it's all I can do just to communicate with them in their language, and I definitely am not interested in playing a role to join their inner circle. I hope someday I will again be involved in moving and shaking in a group that I don't have to play a role (usually dumbed-down!) to fit into. | Are you on the fringe or the inner circle? |
| 28 | None of the above. In happier times, I can enjoy some Disney, particularly the older stuff (Modern Disney makes me want to throw up, it's such substanceless cranked-out crap!) but lately, even Snow White would set my teeth on edge. Sorry. | Who's your favorite lady of Disney? |
| 29 | I said yes, but without thinking it through. They're a pain, but if they were banned, we would probably have to dig deeper in the old pocketbook to fill in the financial difference that those ads are supposed to make. But I wonder, do they really make any difference? I don't know anyone who ever clicks on them. | Should pop-up ads be banned from the internet? |
| 30 | THanks for the enlightenment. Now that I read your point of view, I wish I could change my answer to no. Regulation BAD. | Should pop-up ads be banned from the internet? |
