EXERCISE: What Is This Place?
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writercisesoriginal posting: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 03:07:49 -0500
Hum...
Happened to stumble across a description of the net in very concrete terms (alleys and stores and such) and wondered.
How do you think of this "place?" I've written pieces about the virtual bar, the tree that ties us together, and such, but what do you picture this place as?
A mailbox stuffed with odd junk mail?
a coffee shop, with the scent of well-roasted coffee brewing, the sound of a guitar being tuned, and the low buzz of conversations here and there?
a shopping mall, with micky d's serving up yet another fast meal, and the teeny boppers gleefully showing off their midriffs?
Or...
What is this place?
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brings a stone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
and what lights the towers of that town? that little lamplighter, tink
Hum...
Happened to stumble across a description of the net in very concrete terms (alleys and stores and such) and wondered.
How do you think of this "place?" I've written pieces about the virtual bar, the tree that ties us together, and such, but what do you picture this place as?
A mailbox stuffed with odd junk mail?
a coffee shop, with the scent of well-roasted coffee brewing, the sound of a guitar being tuned, and the low buzz of conversations here and there?
a shopping mall, with micky d's serving up yet another fast meal, and the teeny boppers gleefully showing off their midriffs?
Or...
What is this place?
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brings a stone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
and what lights the towers of that town? that little lamplighter, tink
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