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This poem by Emily Dickenson reminds me a lot of Clark, so I thought I'd share it:
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
by Emily Dickenson
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Joy,
Lynn
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Emily Dickenson was certainly a woman before her time. That poem describes our current "everyone needs to know about me" culture very well. From what I've seen, fame is obtrusive, demoralizing, demeaning, and overrated. I'm proud to be anonymous nobody walking around. How about you?
VirginiaR.
"On the long road, take small steps." -- Jor-el, "The Foundling"
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"clearly there is a lack of understanding between those two... he speaks Lunkheadanian and she Stubbornanian" -- chelo.
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Virginia wrote: I'm proud to be anonymous nobody walking around. How about you? Then there's a pair of us - Don't tell!  Joy, Nemo
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This reminds me of when I had to read Great Expectations for a Victorian Studies class and I got to thinking how "Bunburying" sounded so much like being Superman. I'll have to find my concept notes on this somewhere.
CLARK: No. I'm just worried I'm a jinx.
JONATHAN: A jinx?
CLARK: Yeah. Let's face it, ever since she's known me, Lois's been kidnapped, frozen, pushed off buildings, almost stabbed, poisoned, buried alive and who knows what else, and it's all because of me.
-"Contact" (You're not her jinx, you're her blessing.)
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I thought "Bunburying" came from Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"?
Joy,
Lynn
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I thought "Bunburying" came from Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"?
Joy,
Lynn  You're right. How in the world I mis-remembered that, I don't know (I read both in high school and again for a college class). They're completely COMPLETELY different stories.
Last edited by Christina; 09/02/14 04:15 AM.
CLARK: No. I'm just worried I'm a jinx.
JONATHAN: A jinx?
CLARK: Yeah. Let's face it, ever since she's known me, Lois's been kidnapped, frozen, pushed off buildings, almost stabbed, poisoned, buried alive and who knows what else, and it's all because of me.
-"Contact" (You're not her jinx, you're her blessing.)
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