The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29871   Message #379807
Posted By: Peter T.
22-Jan-01 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Unsolicited Mudcat Testimonials II!
Subject: Unsolicited Mudcat Testimonials II!
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"Whether it was akin to real communication, or more a penumbra around the wished-for if seldom accomplished proferring of mutual understanding, somewhat like the instant before the slippage through a pair of gloved hands, shaped at least in memory, and perhaps in actuality -- or pressed towards actuality by the presence of a potential absence -- similarly enough to a golden bowl so as ostensibly to hold such a bowl (though even that was not fully recognized at least in enough time to make something of a difference to the outcome, such as it was), not unlike -- and so it appeared to him in a moment of abruptness resembling the shock of discovery for which he had been waiting for so long throughout his travels -- a symbol of their encounters, namely, that all she had to do was to shape her hands, and the immediate conclusion drawn by all those around her was indeed that it was a golden bowl, though not a word had been intimated; so that even now he could not say whether they had been intimate or not; but even more that the medium of communication had both joined and distanced their gestures towards each other, like two people trying to cover up the fact that one of them had reached over to touch the other, and they had embraced, and and clumsily, inadvertantly, together (or together apart, or together with one of them apart, or one of them separately anticipating being together, or both of them together -- or even separately -- anticipating being apart) had smashed a precious object into a million pieces on the floor!!!!!"