tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11090371.post112598500699201263..comments2023-08-16T06:18:21.481-07:00Comments on Chemical Billy: HonoreChemical Billyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11090371.post-1126200209413273152005-09-08T10:23:00.000-07:002005-09-08T10:23:00.000-07:00well, paralysis, maybe, or sports writing. I thin...well, paralysis, maybe, or sports writing. <BR/><BR/>I think part of my hesitancy with the thing I wrote was not knowing even how -I- would react to it if I came across it out there. but now that I've seen yours, I think I would react well.<BR/><BR/>and I share your poly-an-tastic hopes for the happy-happy-bunnies-bunnies effects of imagination. so, okay, you've convinced me, I turned the post on again.Daniel Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07696347729980612009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11090371.post-1126152916708952722005-09-07T21:15:00.000-07:002005-09-07T21:15:00.000-07:00Thanks, Anonymous.Ah, monkey, that way lies paraly...Thanks, Anonymous.<BR/><BR/>Ah, monkey, that way lies paralysis. If I can only write (directly or indirectly) about my own experience, I'll never write a thing.<BR/><BR/>Doubtless there are a bunch of people who don't want me to make shit up about them. There might be some who do, I don't know.<BR/><BR/>And that's the point. I can never know. I can never actually take up residence behind someone else's eyes, no way I can ever <I>know</I> exactly how another person feels. But I can imagine. And maybe that can spark someone else's imagination. And maybe that can grow into empathy, and maybe, maybe that can grow into action.<BR/><BR/>If you ask me, a lack of charity starts with a failure of imagination.<BR/><BR/>God, I'm such a Pollyanna.Chemical Billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02252177787003276682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11090371.post-1126136635413793152005-09-07T16:43:00.000-07:002005-09-07T16:43:00.000-07:00see, now, I had a post like this up, and then I to...see, now, I had a post like this up, and then I took it down again. and now I want to put it back up. but then I'll just want to take it back down again. <BR/><BR/>do hurricane survivors want me making shit up about being them?<BR/><BR/>I mean, I think they want you (cb) to. or maybe not; what the hell do I know? if I were them I think I would but I'm not, so who am I to say? but this is the tail I chase, you see? did you chase that tail, too, before you posted this?<BR/><BR/>I guess we do this all the time. whenever we're not writing directly or indirectly about our own experiences, we're making shit up, usually about bad things happening to people. this particular, you know, catastrophe, just sort of pushes that question right up the forefront, the way it does everything.Daniel Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07696347729980612009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11090371.post-1125989917646278022005-09-05T23:58:00.000-07:002005-09-05T23:58:00.000-07:00Very niceVery niceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com