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"It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
-- Faulkner's Nobel speech
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| Jump to Survey | It's hard to answer because I don't tend to imagine other people in the world particularly wanting to spend a day with me. So, if this is just a one-sided thing, it seems pretty awkward and not appealing. I think I'm mostly just not very good at thinking socially. If I reverse the situation and can imagine someone picking me to spend a day with, it doesn't sound bad at all. Well, a day is kind of a long time, but a few hours at least would be enjoyable. | | Jump to Survey | I bought some carving knives because I was going to get into carving wood. That never happened.
I got into pinball machines and astronomy (had a telescope) for a little while, but got tired of both and got rid of most of my stuff.
I bought a book on how to draw (comics, I think) but that didn't really materialize, though I still have the urge to draw and just bought a notebook for it.
I had a garden briefly, but it sucked and didn't seem worth it with all the trouble it was to get going then keep things out of, etc.
I bought some lock-picks and endeavored to learn how to pick a lock. I made some progress, but stopped after a month or so.
There are probably many more... | | Jump to Survey | It's hard to answer because I don't tend to think that I admire people (just don't think like that, I might admire some aspect of them though).
But, I do imitate/adopt things other people do/say. I'm not always aware of it and it's almost embarrassing to admit it. Here goes...
I sometimes say, "I got nothing" which I got from Jon Stewart (he may have gotten it from someone else, though).
An old friend, long-ago brief girlfriend, says "yikes" (like a cartoon); I do that too sometimes.
Another friend who was an old roommate has this odd way of inhaling/exhaling in a sort of anxious/emotive way that I have imitated (another friend caught me at it once). I don't really even understand why I do it. I suppose I like it but it's just odd and not funny or useful.
There are a ton of unattributable internet things I've adopted (anything from a smiley to a less-than 3 heart to multiple greater-thans to "I see what you did there." etc)
Recently, after reading too many wikipedia articles that used the word "titular", I've become semi-obsessed with finding ways to use it myself.
If I am around someone with an accent I have a tendency to start imitating it. Usually, I have to try to stop myself from doing that because it tends to seem like I'm mocking them. I'm not, it's more of an unconscious thing (noticing something unusual and repeating it to myself as a way to examine it or something). |
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