tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post639601577424206918..comments2010-03-01T09:34:17.048-05:00Comments on Objectivity is dead.: [Chapter 3] Muse.Trey -AKA- The Mad Wordsmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520100720707081174noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post-78542552434667274042008-12-10T00:26:00.000-05:002008-12-10T00:26:00.000-05:00Nice work Trey. I've reached the point where I jus...Nice work Trey. I've reached the point where I just will not sleep with a woman unless I love her - it becomes nothing more than masturbation, only riskier. I was once a male whore who fell in love with every woman I slept with - my how I've changed...LOL!Bobby Revellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05225540511858755945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post-44356208839612869162008-11-28T10:58:00.000-05:002008-11-28T10:58:00.000-05:00Great work as always! You have a great talent and ...Great work as always! You have a great talent and you definitely have a captured audience. You have put yourself out here in the blogosphere and have shown a vulnerable side that many people don't allow their friends to see (or in this case read) and you have done so through the internet. You are sharing your thoughts and feelings with people you know and in most cases, with people you don't. Anybody can read your blog, relate, criticize but regardless, you have made yourself available for people to read about your experiences, feelings and much more and that takes a lot. I give you a lot of credit because I don't have the courage to write (or type) my feelings out for the world to read, and you do. I commend you for that. <BR/><BR/>@Anonymous: Having worked with writers and authors for a year and a half, they all have two things in common. <BR/>1. They write what they know. <BR/>2. They write about people and experiences they have had regardless of the type of genre. Writers and authors use characteristics from people they know.<BR/>If you had read the description, it's a narrative of the bloggers life, about people he knows and experiences he has had. If it bothers you so much and you don't like what he has written, there is one simple solution - Don't read the blog. If you have something to say, be mature and put your name with your comments, or as I stated above, don't read the blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post-88240134847890277262008-11-28T01:53:00.000-05:002008-11-28T01:53:00.000-05:00Wow. Hey Trey it looks like someone is afraid of i...Wow. Hey Trey it looks like someone is afraid of identifying themselves for fear of being a target of scrutiny. To me that reflects an understanding of word usage on an unmeasurable level. Unmeasurable of course except by the fear that one shows by not wanting to be bombarded by them because they know they have no possible argument to make afterward. Well doneKeithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03988395905447286220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post-78409915891004362402008-11-28T00:59:00.000-05:002008-11-28T00:59:00.000-05:00@The Verbal Warrior Thank you for the context and...@The Verbal Warrior Thank you for the context and perspective. You're right, experience wise I am not familiar with this mindset too well, so I'm happy to hear how you see things.<BR/><BR/>Trey, awesome man. You have people engaged and discussing your work on deeper levels than just at the plot level. I'm always amazed from something that starts in a cloudy corner of a writer's head and moves all the way to a source text that confronts and changes the minds and hearts of readers. Purely awesome dude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post-45833332102887758892008-11-28T00:13:00.000-05:002008-11-28T00:13:00.000-05:00fact 1: i know youfact 2: you know mefact 3: i kno...fact 1: i know you<BR/>fact 2: you know me<BR/>fact 3: i know who you are talking about<BR/>fact 4: that's not cool<BR/>fact 5,6,7,8,9,10,.......infinity: put the thesaurus awayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post-84923058544548297922008-11-26T22:46:00.000-05:002008-11-26T22:46:00.000-05:00"Sex had begun to fall short of its gratifying rep..."Sex had begun to fall short of its gratifying reputation"....<BR/><BR/>It's interesting that one so young has already figured that one out. Sex, like heroin, is one of those things that you think you require more of, all the while, it gives back less and less. <BR/><BR/>Without the love to go along with it. <BR/><BR/>You remind me so much of my son. He has the same distaste for the Emo world, the same ability to overanalyze and negatively critique any situation. Alot of it comes from insecurity...I know this, because I do the same thing, even at my lofty perch up here at 40 yrs. :) <BR/><BR/>Putting people up to such exacting and unmeetable standards is merely just a way of keeping everyone at arms (or farther) length. <BR/><BR/>As usual, however, I'm anticipating whatever you've got to say next! It was worth the wait! Thanks for being so willing to open yourself up. <BR/><BR/>@James: House is a classic representation of antisocial personality disorder. If you've not lived with someone of this nature, it may be hard to fathom how someone can be so far removed from the typical human emotions. <BR/><BR/>From my side, I didn't feel alienated at all. Maybe because I'm just used to being around it alot more than the general population. <BR/><BR/>Ok, babbled enough. Great insight and presence of mind. Thanks again!Miragihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374321412520155636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post-11662953645570797572008-11-26T21:55:00.000-05:002008-11-26T21:55:00.000-05:00So, T, what is it that you're looking for that you...So, T, what is it that you're looking for that you are so firmly convinced you will never find? Methinks you may be a "petrarchan lover" (a term I learned in hike school as we studied Shakespeare that I was sure I would never get to use in the "real world" - thank you for allowing me the opportunity to pull it out from my antiquated vocab and dust it off for you). <BR/><BR/>Or, is it merely that your standards are so unjust that no human could ever fill this void you lug around? <BR/><BR/>Perhaps a bit of both?<BR/><BR/>Don't take yourself (or life) so seriously.<BR/><BR/>But in the meantime, keep the pen (er, keyboard) a-flowin'. You're an enjoyable writer to read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96542427325293482.post-30998280390176368402008-11-26T19:07:00.000-05:002008-11-26T19:07:00.000-05:00This is very good. I have a few thoughts that came...This is very good. I have a few thoughts that came up while reading. They are not meant as criticisms. Again, I think you are a great writer with a very good sense for capturing that lonely experience and making your reader very familiar with it.<BR/><BR/>These are definitely the kinds of feelings a lot of people can relate to. I think there are a lot of men, in particular, who would identify with your character, although not to this extreme. <BR/><BR/>I do feel kind of disturbed, because the character feels so lonely in an unjust world, and there is line after line of the intense pain and anger and it stays all balled up with no climatic release. Even in bed with Sarah, there is no let up of pressure. So it's an intensive piece to read. <BR/><BR/>I don't know, as a reader, I feel somewhat alienated. I start identifying with your character, and I want him to look up and beyond the hypocritical world or face some kind of issues that contribute to why he is so ticked off. Instead, he buries himself in poisonous thought after another, and I start realizing he is walking so far into despair and emptiness that his observations of the world around him are distorted, paranoid, and maybe deluded. For me this is a very difficult lens to keep reading the story. It reminded me a lot of the narrator in Catcher in the Rye. I had such sympathy for him, but he was void of compassion, love, feeling, and anything positive. It was frustrating to read.<BR/><BR/>I think this is very good, and your details and the mood are expressed very well since I had such a like / dislike connection with the story. I think the best writing evokes those feelings to some extent, and the reader is troubled yet fascinated by that feeling. I think the TV show House is like this. We like Dr. House and we are so repulsed by him at the same time. What does that say about us?<BR/><BR/>Sorry for going on. Good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com