http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/05/30/labile-adj/ "bringing you all the news that's fit to mistrust" Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:42:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/05/30/labile-adj/#comment-31118 Sat, 31 May 2008 16:53:03 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/05/30/labile-adj/#comment-31118 Not to get too guru on you (new CD name? <em>Guru on You</em>) but having a feeling isn't a problem. The split where you judge that having a feeling is a problem creates the illusion of a problem. It's sad when people die (even fictional people) and there's wistful music playing. As I think I already mentioned to you, if I had encountered you watching someone die while sad music played and you were sitting there giggling maniacally or punching your fist into your hand and saying "Yes!" I might wonder. Not to get too guru on you (new CD name? Guru on You) but having a feeling isn’t a problem. The split where you judge that having a feeling is a problem creates the illusion of a problem. It’s sad when people die (even fictional people) and there’s wistful music playing. As I think I already mentioned to you, if I had encountered you watching someone die while sad music played and you were sitting there giggling maniacally or punching your fist into your hand and saying “Yes!” I might wonder.

]]> http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/05/30/labile-adj/#comment-31081 Fri, 30 May 2008 23:25:30 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/05/30/labile-adj/#comment-31081 PS: Much less explicable evidence of lability than crying for the tragic end of a promising but fictional doctor's life due to a brain tumor and right after he'd found love and started making his life work is...tears upon being moved by horses running or whales and dolphins leaping at SeaWorld shows. Sometimes you can't take me anywhere. PS: Much less explicable evidence of lability than crying for the tragic end of a promising but fictional doctor’s life due to a brain tumor and right after he’d found love and started making his life work is…tears upon being moved by horses running or whales and dolphins leaping at SeaWorld shows. Sometimes you can’t take me anywhere.

]]> http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/05/30/labile-adj/#comment-31080 Fri, 30 May 2008 23:16:57 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/05/30/labile-adj/#comment-31080 You know what I hate? Is how I start weeping at what should just be basic ordinary decency, the tenderness people ought to be showing for one another all the time, the stuff we should never be taking for granted but slip into taking for granted until there's a jolt/reminder not to. Is it that I hate needing the reminders myself? Fixated lately with May Sarton quote: "One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being." You know what I hate? Is how I start weeping at what should just be basic ordinary decency, the tenderness people ought to be showing for one another all the time, the stuff we should never be taking for granted but slip into taking for granted until there’s a jolt/reminder not to. Is it that I hate needing the reminders myself? Fixated lately with May Sarton quote: “One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.”

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