bring out your dead ~

[lookingland]

thought on dead communities:

i apparently belong to a lot of dead livejournal communities.

i occasionally post to them, hoping to rouse some discussion, but not much has been happening. i leave them on my list because it's not like they clog up my friends' page or anything.

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thought on a dead person for the day:

harriet beecher-stowe ~ earnest and ill-informed reformer or deliberate propaganist? what is the responsibility of writers to tell the truth?

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things that kill:

once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh.

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dead projects worth resurrecting?:

just how long does something have to sit in a closet rotting before you declare it dead. much as i hold onto a number of very old and very abandoned projects, i still consider most of them to be viable. but i do have a handful of truly dead ideas that will never see the light of day. should i destroy all evidence of them? does anyone else have a horror of the thought of work being published posthumously which should never see the light of day?

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dead ends:

i need a hair trim really bad. this northern weather is wreaking havoc on my tresses.

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Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means
of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life,
of making it tolerable and acceptable.

Wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

~ Socrates

Comments

Re: I liked your entry today! =)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

Same here! I really regret that the catholicwriters group in particular is so dead. ~ yeah ~ that one in particular is sad sad sad. foo.

I'm afraid I've turned into quite the tea snob. ~ i think i have too, though maybe if offered i'd be less picky? dunno.

I always picture some future scholar pouring over my unfinished work, making comments along the lines of: "Ah, yes, this unfortunately was one of her weakest works. The plot is terrible, the characters are weak..." ~ oy vey! the horror! people there are reasons some work was never published! i always cringe when they unearth some long-dead writer's manuscript and then print it and the sharks go to town. of course, i'd be dead, so it wouldn't really matter. hahahaha ~

(Of course, this fantasy also goes along with the "famous author" daydream: the one where high schoolers are reading my work along with Twain, Dickens, the Brontes, and the like.) ~ well naturally! hahahaha ~

And, of course, I've always been nervous that my descendents will find my diary after I'm dead. I can just hear it now: "Great-Grandma did WHAT???" =) ~ well there's no question in my mind that i'll destroy my diaries and correspondance before i die. absolutely nothing in there for prying eyes!

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