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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1231)5/13/2003 3:29:14 PM
From: one_less   of 20773
 
When I watched the first interview of a person living in New York after 911, I notice they used the word "surreal" to describe their experience. I thought to my self that that was a descriptor that pretty well captured the feeling that most people were having at the time. A feeling of floating in the world that no longer has stable limits where any thing could change or happen, intense and irrational but a boding form of reality just the same. For a moment I was enamored by the term.

Well my next thought was...wait-a-minute.

The first time I heard the catchy phrase "fer-sure-man," and "far-out," and "bummer," and "duuude," and "sort'v"; I had a "right-on" feeling about those terms. Then when I heard them over and over and over again in every conversation and experiencial revelation for the next 10 frikken years, I wished I'd never heard them the first time.

I got sick of people using the term "surreal" to describe their experiences by 912.
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