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Re:Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore by arghimonmobile0 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:23AM (#13849627)
I don't have anything constructive to say, except that you sound like a quite special and definitely very perceptive person. It is random meetings in meatspace with people like you seem to be (I am likely projecting, but near with me) that light up my life. That is no recognition in a public sense, and perhaps not bona fide genius either, but I'm sure that you contribute more than you realise to more people's experience than you realise.

But perhaps it's just me rambling on a Saturday night.

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Re:Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore by mtdewcmu on Sunday March 12, 2017 @04:09AM (#13849741)
The sense I get from him is that he enjoys storytelling, and the stories should not be mistaken for literal truth.
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Re:Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore by sverige on Sunday March 12, 2017 @09:54AM (#13850652)
I do enjoy storytelling. The story above is literal truth, unlike some that I tell. The problem with drinking is that I'm more likely to share literal truth about myself than when I'm sober, when "myself" is rightly seen as a very dull topic. (How embarrassing all of this is in the morning light.)
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