Posted by Darth Dobbin at ct-naugatuck3a-68.wtrbct.adelphia.net on July 11, 2001 at 13:00:35:
In Reply to: Fixing a hole posted by jkm822 on July 11, 2001 at 12:22:38:
I can't speak for anyone else, but I no longer want the great American romance, and I no longer want to be treated as chattel. A happy medium would be REALLY nice.
Don't take this the wrong way, but...
This is sacrilige. Venus wept. Those Half-white-half-red Floyd boys had some sort of line pertaining to this attitude.. something about trading "heroes for ghosts" and exchanging walk-on parts in wars for lead roles in cages. "Really nice?" More like "really safe." Almost like "really dead."
Medium is mediocre, and your joy is your sorrow unmasked. It's a continuum, and if you want the highs, they are defined by contrast with the depths. Crazy arab guy said something about answering Love's call, even though you know the sword hidden in his pinions will wound you.
But I say there's a "Kobeashi Maru" solution out there, a winning path in the unwinnable game, for the Don and Donna Quixotes and Capt. Kirks out there bold, arrogant, foolish, and wonderful enough to grasp for it.
Eff "nice," dare for the arrogance that finds you demanding your cake, and the abiltity to eat it too. America had an Emporer, you know.
Of COURSE you want the Great American Romance, you want the guy who can thrill, fascinate, be strong when he needs to be, be quiet at the right times, be brash and stupid and jealous and wise and smart and understanding, and who will "get" you and never be tired of the endless fascination of "getting" you, or you him, and you also want that guy to be able to just sometimes screw for the rough, dumb pleasure of it, too. Everybody does. And if you can convince yourself you deserve it, and demand it, it just might happen.
Don't settle. Compromise is just a situation where all parties are equally unhappy.