The Official October Waiter's Oasis Forum

LurkSoHard · Post by **LurkSoHard** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:04 pm

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chicharon · Post by **chicharon** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:05 pm

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ugg · Post by **ugg** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:06 pm

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slizerd · Post by **slizerd** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:07 pm

Favorite poem of all time:

The dread, always,
of coming to this:

to sit
day after day
chain smoking
in a soiled undershirt
beside the cracked window
of a fifth-floor walkup
on Railroad Avenue
with stains on the wall,
dead flies on the sill,
no hot water,
and the cold water rusty;

to sit
smoking and coughing
watching dust settle down,
freights rumble by,
and beyond the tracks
the river flowing
gray and tedious

while on the other,
the opposite, shore
the distant lights
of someplace else
rise up in a glory
more awesome than Rome
and now unreachable
as anyplace anywhere.

ugg · Post by **ugg** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:07 pm

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ugg · Post by **ugg** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:08 pm

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cub1014 · Post by **cub1014** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:10 pm

theugg wrote:How do strangers meet??? From online???? Without it being super awkward??? And horrible?!

I bet some people from this thread will end up meeting in real life at law school, knowingly or not.

LurkSoHard · Post by **LurkSoHard** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:12 pm

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gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:13 pm

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ugg · Post by **ugg** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:14 pm

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ICANDOIT · Post by **ICANDOIT** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:15 pm

How is everyone staying sane right now? I am in the worst mood from this wait. The closer it gets, the worse I feel.

What if the scores were released tomorrow? I know it'll probably be Monday... but maybe in some magical world LSAC will release October historically early?

slizerd · Post by **slizerd** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:15 pm

Anyone feel like reading my PS? I'm sooooo close to being happy with it.

LurkSoHard · Post by **LurkSoHard** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:16 pm

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gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:16 pm

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LurkSoHard · Post by **LurkSoHard** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:17 pm

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pleadthafif · Post by **pleadthafif** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:18 pm

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splitterfromhell · Post by **splitterfromhell** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:19 pm

LurkSoHard wrote:
theugg wrote:Is anyone ITT actually good at getting what they want from tinder?!? If so, how?
say some good pick up lines, like "I run faster horny, than you do afraid.."

But in all seriousness, i've seen a guy pull from that terrible, messed up line!

Rape culture isn't a joke.

LurkSoHard · Post by **LurkSoHard** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:21 pm

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ugg · Post by **ugg** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:23 pm

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Sera Numquam · Post by **Sera Numquam** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:27 pm

chicharon wrote:
SirArthurDayne wrote:
GreatBraffsby wrote:To get to the promised land of 368, how about everyone paste a favorite long quote? Here's my favorite passage from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio:

"George and Helen arose and walked away into the darkness. They went along a path past a field of corn that had not yet been cut. The wind whispered among the dry corn blades. For a moment during the walk back into town the spell that held them was broken. When they had come to the crest of Waterworks Hill they stopped by a tree and George again put his hands on the girl’s shoulders. She embraced him eagerly and then again they drew quickly back from that impulse. They stopped kissing and stood a little apart. Mutual respect grew big in them. They were both embarrassed and to relieve their embarrassment dropped into the animalism of youth. They laughed and began to pull and haul at each other. In some way chastened and purified by the mood they had been in, they became, not man and woman, not boy and girl, but excited little animals.

It was so they went down the hill. In the darkness they played like two splendid young things in a young world. Once, running swiftly forward, Helen tripped George and he fell. He squirmed and shouted. Shaking with laughter, he roiled down the hill. Helen ran after him. For just a moment she stopped in the darkness. There was no way of knowing what woman’s thoughts went through her mind but, when the bottom of the hill was reached and she came up to the boy, she took his arm and walked beside him in dignified silence. For some reason they could not have explained they had both got from their silent evening together the thing needed. Man or boy, woman or girl, they had for a moment taken hold of the thing that makes the mature life of men and women in the modern world possible."
Didn't get past the first paragraph.
Didn't get past "George and Helen"

I read part of it.

Sera Numquam · Post by **Sera Numquam** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:30 pm

sollos wrote:
theugg wrote:Read The Gift of Death by Derrida. Same topic. Better.
I'm pretty sure my graduate degree in philosophy would be revoked were it learnt that I had cracked open a page of Derrida.

His The Force of the Law was very interesting to me.

galeatus · Post by **galeatus** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:30 pm

I simply just can't read theugg's poasts without hearing JLaw's voice reading it in my head.

chicharon · Post by **chicharon** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:31 pm

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Sera Numquam · Post by **Sera Numquam** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:31 pm

oldercoldervoice wrote:Since we're doing the quote thing, here's a snippet of the poem my handle comes from:

The best and worst never stayed here long but sought
Immoderate soils where the beauty was not so external,
The light less public and the meaning of life
Something more than a mad camp. 'Come!' cried the granite wastes,
'How evasive is your humour, how accidental
Your kindest kiss, how permanent is death.' (Saints-to-be
Slipped away sighing.) 'Come!' purred the clays and gravels,
'On our plains there is room for armies to drill; rivers
Wait to be tamed and slaves to construct you a tomb
In the grand manner: soft as the earth is mankind and both
Need to be altered.' (Intendant Caesars rose and
Left, slamming the door.) But the really reckless were fetched
By an older colder voice, the oceanic whisper:
'I am the solitude that asks and promises nothing;
That is how I shall set you free. There is no love;
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.'

I feel like I know something super intimate about you now.

chicharon · Post by **chicharon** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:33 pm

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