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Archive for December, 2005

Why blog?

A Star article on blogging quotes Indiana University dean, Blaise Cronin:

“One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they choose to expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel, and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers?”

I suppose I can’t argue with that. And I’m too intellectually exhausted to bother trying anyway.
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Hajera, the Hermit

Alas, that dreaded time of the year has once again dawned upon my unprepared and hardly-ready self. I thus have no choice but to submerge myself into the demeaning world of studentship where I shall glue myself to my books for the next week and promise myself not to come within a 6 foot [...]

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Speak

Why?
I have no answer to queries that plague.
Why not?
Useless line of questioning.
No response.
Complete silence.
Your silence.
Hurts.
to say the least.
In silence we swallow
gulps in our throats
constricting voices
choking now
on possibilities failed to be realized.
Hope.
all flown away.
Hollow.
only emptiness now.
Tears.
inevitable, they fall.
Speak now
or forever hold your peace.

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A Night of Peace

“This has got to be it,” I tell myself, reassuringly. I have been anticipating this moment for the past 25 days, patiently at times, and not so patiently at times, awaiting its silent solitude and its calming sense of peace to wash over me. And I’m ready for it. I have been preparing for it, [...]

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