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  • Location: USA
  • Profile updated: May 15, 2008
  • Last signed in: Aug 30, 2008
  • Member since: Aug 25, 2007

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Smaragdus commented on a photo by John Beck Jul 13, 2008 3:46PM EDT
"I love beaches that haven't been completely combed clean of their natural charms for easily grossed out tourists. My parents used to own a place in Biddeford, ME with a private beach and the only cleansing . . ." more
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Mariana T., Apr 5, 2008, 1:47AM EDT
Her moniker is "Souley" and the terlet's nom de plume is "Holey" - any more questions about the nomenclature of my necessaries? Salud.
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Andrea Grenadier, Mar 31, 2008, 9:23PM EDT
I find others' people work can be inspiring on several levels, and I do the same thing, when I should be working on my own. But heck, who says I should be doing anything of the kind? What I seem to be lacking right now is not inspiration, but discipline. Even just one line can inspire me, but right now, my brain feels like there are 100 swallows flying around in there, beating their wings and trying to get out. There must be a poem in there, somewhere... Cheers, S!
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Andrea Grenadier, Mar 28, 2008, 3:33PM EDT
Smaragdus, thank you so much for your deeply appreciated comments about my work. I haven't been producing much lately, having unexpectedly and sadly, (like in the poem), had the seas rolled out from under me. I just can't seem to concentrate. I'm like you -- I seldom comment with a "great!" unless it is, and I generally offer any substantive comments by personal e-mail, so people won't think I'm being show-offy. Because I've only been writing poetry for about two years, your comments mean a lot to me, since I know you to be a highly complex thinker and writer. I like to know from writers I respect and admire what they think of my work, so thanks very much!
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JM Gariepy, Jan 30, 2008, 12:00PM EST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Emma_Edmonds

Cool!
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John Beck, Jan 24, 2008, 2:31PM EST
Great that you like what I've been up to, and your comments would be wonderful; but even better you might share some more of your own creations!
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JM Gariepy, Jan 23, 2008, 4:40PM EST
You're right, I am only tantamountably interested (hopefully that word means what I think it does... I'd use the dictionary, but it wouldn't sound like John-Michael if I wasn't butchering the language).
I have been working on various projects over here. Right now, I need to do some more work on the magazine that I'm trying to cobble together. look at www.bookshredder.com if you want, but as a warning, since it isn't public, there's just some stuff thrown together, not an actual webpage with a mission statement.
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John F Walter, Jan 22, 2008, 3:37PM EST
That was one of the most amazing comments I´ve ever received on a poem in my two years on Gather, Smaragdus. As far as I´m concerned, if we put my poem on one scale of truth and beauty, and your comment on the other, the scale wouldn´t tip toward you, it would fall over your way. I´m still thinking of a response, which I will give you privately because I just don´t want to respond on that poem for some enigmatic reason known only to the homunculus at the center of my own mind´s labyrinth, but I will say that we are compound creatures, and there are many truths to be found depending on one´s level of mapping the world--visceral, behavioral, or reflective. Your friend´s dilemna reminds me of the enduring theme of human bondage that W. Somerset Maugham posed in almost all his novels, not just the one with that title. It´s as if the reflective mind that thinks doesn´t know other parts of the greater whole--this goes way beyond Freud´s tripytch of ego, superego and id or the triune brain of neocortex human, cerebellum mammalian, medulla/limbic reptile.

For me, since truths keep us in the world more than true/false assertions about the world, they are the most important of the verities to consider and sustain.
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John F Walter, Jan 11, 2008, 11:17AM EST
Thanks for keeping me posted, my friend. Hope you feel completely better soon.
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JM Gariepy, Jan 10, 2008, 8:00PM EST
Well, I told you my story was good stuff, didn't I? But, no, you had to be all like "I'll wait till the movie comes out".
By the by, you haven't read the "Lotus and the Bottle" yet, have you?
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Janet Louise H., Dec 22, 2007, 5:39PM EST
Thanks for coming by...I have enjoyed reading your comments on other articles.
Love your icon too!
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