i was blindfolded and pushed down a flight of stairs

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it hurt at first but then i got used to it

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

as i tumbled in the darkness i thought to myself

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

who could have done such a terrible thing?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

my beloved but estranged wife?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

the indigent seaman whom i had fed, clothed, and housed in my cellar?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

the butler?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Scott Walker?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

but the inertia of my downward plummet made it difficult to concentrate on the theoretical

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

It was me, I confess, I wanted to kill you, steal your poetry, set it to dronerock and take credit for it.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

and so as i fell, i focused on the practical

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

i.e., the question of the purpose of grammar

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

is grammar intended to enforce rules on the way that we speak and write

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

(those rules of course established by the wealthy and the powerful, and enforced on the poor and the weak)?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

or is grammar supposed to be a reflection of the changing modes in the written and spoken word as used in "the real world"?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

i finally decided that grammar is a snake eating its own tail

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

and added Strunk and/or White to my list of suspects

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

i sensed that the staircase was starting to spiral

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

and became confused:

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

if i, consistently laying perpendicular to my direction of descent, were falling down a spiral staircase

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

did this mean that my feet (which were facing the outer edge of the staircase) were travelling faster than my head?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

and i worried:

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

if the staircase straightened out again, would my feet continue travelling faster than my head

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

This is why the "registered users only" dealio wouldn't work.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

and would I thus stretch and eventually split?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

i think i had a concussion

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

because i realized that i wasn't married

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

and that seaman seemed pretty well-off

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

and that was his butler, not mine

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

and Strunk and White seem more like the stabbing type

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

they say that people who lose one of their senses often make up for it by gaining power in one of their other senses

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

like blind people who have a fantastic sense of hearing or can smell things a mile away

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

but all i could hear was thumping and grunting and cracking and tearing

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

and all i could smell was blood

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

it seemed like i had been falling for hours

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

i concentrated on the colorful bursts and flashes that popped up every time my head hit the next stair

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

they looked like when you press into your eyelids with your thumbs

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

or like fireworks

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

when that happens, are you "seeing" something or not?

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

i decided that i was seeing them, and thus, i had disproved the existence of the blindfold

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

A butterfly floats on the breeze of a sun lit day

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

As I feel this reality gently fade away

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

but i still couldn't see anything beyond the flashes of light and color

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Riding on a thought to see where it's from