LisaLCFan wrote:
Wow, that has to be a record for the most "we"s in one short paragraph (I did not include the "we" in the Donne quote). Who is this "we"? Those aren't my thoughts or feelings.
a good question. i often ask the same when listening to such lines as "we read from pleasant bibles", "we asked for signs, and signs were sent", "first we take manhattan, then we take berlin", etc., etc.
>Perhaps you really meant, "I"? (Then again, maybe you did mean "we", Sybil, I mean, Geoffrey!)
well, i can assure you i am not a replica of shirley mason (nor the person suffering from multi personality disorder with whom jesus conversed in mark 5:9). i simply make usage of the collective 'i', as leonard does in 'boogie street': "we are so lightly here, it is in love that we are made and in love we disappear".
finally, leonard gives an example of using the same word multiple times
-g
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shhh, the sound made around the index finger raised to the lips.
shhh, and the roofs are raised against the storm.
shhh, the forests are cleared so the wind will not rattle the trees.
shhh, the hydrogen rockets go off to silence dissent and variety. it is not an unpleasant noise. it is indeed a perky tune, like the bubbles above a clam.
shhh, will everybody listen, please. will the animals stop howling, please. will the belly stop rumbling, please. will time call off its ultrasonic dogs, please. it is the sound my ball pen makes on the hospital paper as i run it down the edge of the red ruler.
shhh, it says to the billion unlines of whiteness.
shhh, it whispers to the white chaos, lie down in dormitory rows.
shhh, it implores the dancing molecules, i love dances but i do not love foreign dances, i love dances that have rules, my rules. wit, invention,
shhh,
shhh, now do you see why we've soundproofed the forest, carved benches round the wild arena?
shhh, hiss, the noise of steam spreads through occupational therapy, it mixes with the sunlight, it bestows a rainbow halo on each bowed head of sufferer, doctor, nurse, volunteer. they do not hear the individual noises.
shhh, hiss, they hear the sound of the sounds together."
['beautiful losers]