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Thanks TAPS!
posted by
Antonionioni
on August 15, 2007 at 1:04 AM
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Antonionio
I'm way back here for your clicks because I've already clicked on your first page of the blog twice today.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 14, 2007 at 3:40 AM
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Well done, Mneme - you get a star!
I bet you're partial to a bit of karaoke...
posted by
Antonionioni
on July 29, 2007 at 11:30 AM
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antonionio
I had even more fun reading this after I had seen the follow-up; and I could actually hear the blinking songs as I read, because you had sowed the seeds.
posted by
mneme
on July 29, 2007 at 7:19 AM
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Hello Discom - not heard from you for a while - welcome back!
I completely agree - the greater control we have is exactly what we longed for all thru childhood and the teenage years!
posted by
Antonionioni
on July 28, 2007 at 2:31 AM
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Thanks Durbs - you did actually refer to one of the songs in the sonnet -
A Hard Day's Night - and also thanks for your comments about other holocausts. You are quite right. Obviously we don't all commit genocide and stuff, but my point may have been that people are the same the world over. The German 'holocaust' was insane because of the insanity of its leaders, not the insanity of the whole German people - nevertheless the people went along with it, which is the most worrying aspect. The German people are not a devilish race - in fact they are among the most civilised on the planet. Therefore all races, some even more than the Germans, are capable of tacitly supporting - rather than actually instigating - terible deeds done in their name.
posted by
Antonionioni
on July 28, 2007 at 2:30 AM
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Fair enough Enig - I was rather drunk by the time I wrote my comment - not
even sure what i meant by it!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on July 28, 2007 at 2:24 AM
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Antonionioni
Excellent Sonnet. Brings back memories of childhood.
posted by
jacentaOld
on July 27, 2007 at 9:15 PM
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Hmmm
I find myself idealizing my youth sometimes, which I try not to do because nostalgia makes things seem rosier than they were and also because I treasure one important difference between adulthood and childhood: the ability to control your life. I know a lot of things are out of my control, but I like that I can make choices about the things that are within my scope. That's what I love about adulthood.
posted by
Discombobulated78
on July 27, 2007 at 8:59 PM
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Tony--wonderful; I'm still crazy for yesterdays rain falling on my head BUT
never hiding it from the rain, even after a hard day's night working like a dog!
By the way, slavery was a holocaust; the Rwanda cutlass andbushknife killings of 2 million is a holocaust; the events in Iraq constitute a holocaust; the whole westerna nd easternw orld's attck on women for millennia destroyed their careers and potential for so long in oneof the longest holocaust; plus we are holocausting the whole planet and galaxy? I know the best Jewish survivors meant by NEVER AGAIN- no such holocaust for any of humanity --not a private word to protect only a special clan who wield power, be it herem there or through the civil institutions.Shalom all the time for all the people and all the planet
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on July 27, 2007 at 7:28 PM
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Antonio
The Holocaust was man's bigoted, homicidal insanity, writ large. I want to go on record, that I'm an everday person, and I'm not enacting my own Holocaust - and I do think that I'm morally, way above some of the Germans, Japanese, and Italians - of the WWII era. 
posted by
Enigmatic68
on July 27, 2007 at 4:32 PM
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Yes, Ennigg - absolutely but that is an extreme example -
besides, the holocaust was man's selfishness writ large. Everyday people enact their own hoocausts while under the illusion that morally they are way above the Germans of the World war two era. They are not.
posted by
Antonionioni
on July 27, 2007 at 3:46 PM
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Antonio
Except, of course, some extreme experiences - I'd glad I'm innocent, as far as not suffering the things, that Holocaust survivors, went through...
posted by
Enigmatic68
on July 27, 2007 at 12:36 PM
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Hi Eniio - I agree - that's really the point of the whole thing - because
it isn't all good.Overall, I'd rather not be innocent!
posted by
Antonionioni
on July 27, 2007 at 12:11 PM
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That's right Najwa - it was a beautiful time but still not as good as now
posted by
Antonionioni
on July 27, 2007 at 12:09 PM
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Thanks very much, Mary - appreciate your appreciation!!
Will be back larer - feel like playin' geetar for a while now!
posted by
Antonionioni
on July 27, 2007 at 12:08 PM
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Antonio
Nice Sonnet - as you know, "innocence" is quite a subjective term...
posted by
Enigmatic68
on July 27, 2007 at 11:32 AM
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I think you are more happy now than when you were a child but it is beautifull memories even if their pains red faces bleeding knees silent tears and kind kisses ..it is brilliant poem yours and UNIQUE TRUE,,, BUT you know that we did amazing things we cannot do it now AS we were childern with thousands of free spirits ,,,,
,,,,,,,,,the stranger
posted by
NAJWA
on July 27, 2007 at 11:31 AM
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Antonio-yo-yo - Ah, that was lovely! Re-structuring our childhood.
Daydreaming, head in the clouds, clumsiness, crying, alliteration...... ha ha. I LOVE this one! BRAVA!
posted by
FoliageGold
on July 27, 2007 at 11:24 AM
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