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Post by whimsy on Aug 11, 2012 19:21:35 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #6666BB; border: 1px dashed pink; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: pink; text-align: left;]TF: well if you get anymore clues, maybe you should let me know?
TF: i mean i don't think i'll be much help but i'd like to know how it turns out
TF: but, um, maybe we can discuss something else, i mean, since we are, uh, friends, kinda
TF: what about your obsession with the color gold?
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Post by WONG CHENLEI on Aug 11, 2012 19:26:22 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: I'm not sure if I would qualify it as an obsession per se, that seems like a dangerous pronouncement.
AC: But if you must know, I believe my 'obsession' with the color gold can be traced to my dreams!
AC: Dreams about a beautiful golden city!
AC: There were so many awesome people there, and they would always tell me to look up!
AC: But because it was so fun, I would just play all day with my friends and look at the shiny golden city.
AC: It's a little bit juvenile now that I say it out loud, haha.
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Post by whimsy on Aug 11, 2012 19:31:50 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #6666BB; border: 1px dashed pink; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: pink; text-align: left;]TF: i don't think it's, um, juvenile
TF: it sounds like a really nice place, actually
TF: kind of, er, enchanting, even, maybe
TF: could you tell me more?
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Post by WONG CHENLEI on Aug 11, 2012 19:40:44 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Ahaha, well you have to understand this was a dream so my memories are not the most precise.
AC: But since you asked, I shall endeavor to fulfill your request!
AC: A long time ago there was a world filled with gold and light - and also people! Not human people, necessarily, but they were people all the same with good hearts and, what is the word... noblesse?
AC: No, nobility.
AC: Anyway, these people had waited a long time for their gods to wake, a very long time indeed. They had epics and legends written about their gods, and they would always try to get me to read them.
AC: I think I tried once, but the parchment turned to dust when I touched it.
AC: ...are you sure this isn't boring? They are just childhood confabulations between my subconscious and my imagination. Nothing of any particular interest.
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Post by whimsy on Aug 11, 2012 19:43:50 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #6666BB; border: 1px dashed pink; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: pink; text-align: left;]TF: oh no it's not boring
TF: i, uh, think it's kind of interesting and you have a splendid imagination
TF: you can tell me more, i can, um, listen for you
TF: it seems like you probably haven't told anyone about this stuff before, maybe
TF: so maybe it'll help you if you get it off your chest?
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Post by WONG CHENLEI on Aug 11, 2012 19:54:03 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Oh, well, I think I may have ceaselessly babbled about it to my Sis when I was little, I mean it's not a profound secret of mine or anything.
AC: But if you want to hear about it, I'm happy to oblige!
AC: So this golden world of my dreams had six heroes.
AC: And these heroes were all humans! Actually, they were kids like me!
AC: I think I may have played with some of them, possibly, but if I did it's not something I recall. Most of the time they were asleep, so it's not like I could go pester them much anyway.
AC: Except for one of the heroes, his/her tower was always empty!
AC: I even hid in that room for a bit, but no matter how hard I tried I just never saw him/her at all.
AC: I think I remember being pretty frustrated!
AC: ...and that's pretty much all, really. Haven't had the dreams for a while now.
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Post by whimsy on Aug 11, 2012 19:57:51 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #6666BB; border: 1px dashed pink; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: pink; text-align: left;]TF: have you ever thought about, maybe, writing this down?
TF: it sounds really interesting, actually, and i'd love to read it
TF: did the other kids have any, um, names or anything?
TF: i mean, you said you played with them, kind of, right?
TF: maybe they were your friends or something
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Post by WONG CHENLEI on Aug 11, 2012 20:01:25 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: I was informed by certain persons with impeccable credentials that boys did not write diaries.
AC: Even dream diaries!
AC: So sadly no, most of my memories of that golden world have been lost to the brumes of time.
AC: As for the children there, I don't think we ever introduced ourselves! We just sort of played together, like we were already all a big happy family.
AC: You know how dream logic is: it doesn't always make perfect sense in a dream, but during the dreaming it seems to be perfectly sane.
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Post by whimsy on Aug 11, 2012 20:09:17 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #6666BB; border: 1px dashed pink; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: pink; text-align: left;]TF: well it doesn't have to be a, um, diary
TF: guys write journals, don't they? why not do that instead, maybe?
TF: or even translate them into something like, um, stories or something
TF: they sound like they could be marvelous, er, children's stories
TF: you could be the next big children's author, probably!
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Post by WONG CHENLEI on Aug 11, 2012 20:12:47 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: That sounds a little unlikely! Children stories have morals and lessons and such!
AC: What could be taken from a dream about golden filigree cities and an interminable wait for slumbering gods?
AC: But I will take your journal idea into consideration, it sounds like it has merit.
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Post by whimsy on Aug 11, 2012 20:14:30 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #6666BB; border: 1px dashed pink; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: pink; text-align: left;]TF: well, i mean, you don't have to be specific and accurate
TF: they're your dreams so you could take, um, artistic license with them
TF: and make them whatever it is you want them to be, maybe
TF: i'd read your stories, if you let me, because a golden city sounds kind of, um, fascinating
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Post by WONG CHENLEI on Aug 11, 2012 20:17:16 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: You do my meager skills much too much honor, I am sure an actual published manuscript would be disappointing.
AC: But I will certainly consider the possibility now that it has been brought up!
AC: Speaking of dreams though, surely you have had some of your own, with an equally vivid tableau and setting?
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Post by whimsy on Aug 11, 2012 20:33:50 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #6666BB; border: 1px dashed pink; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: pink; text-align: left;]TF: you know so many big words and have a good way of putting everything
TF: i think you would be a wonderful writer
TF: i don't think i've had any dreams as, um, splendid as a golden city
TF: lately i have dreamed of a really, er, dark kind of purple place
TF: i don't really remember much because i was afraid to, um, well, to leave the room i was in
TF: it was very pink, though, maybe
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Post by WONG CHENLEI on Aug 11, 2012 20:40:59 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #545454; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: gold; text-align: left;]AC: Big words do not an author make! If anything, they just make them sound snobby and self-aggrandizing.
AC: I would attempt to make my speech a little more casual, but I fear that big words have become a fairly well-ensconced habit of mine. An overreacting defense mechanism against people assuming my English is terrible, possibly.
AC: Like so many other things that is neither here nor now though.
AC: A dark, purple place, you say?
AC: That sounds interesting!
AC: If a bit ominous.
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Post by whimsy on Aug 11, 2012 20:43:53 GMT -5
[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #6666BB; border: 1px dashed pink; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: pink; text-align: left;]TF: they're still bigger than most the words that i, um, know
TF: and it's not just that, you have really good syntax
TF: see that's probably the fanciest word i'll use in this conversation
TF: i wouldn't even know how to describe my dreams
TF: if i remember them, anyway, i could be imagining everything, probably
TF: i just remember it was dark and purple, maybe, and felt really bad
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