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	<title>Comments on: Jelly Bag Fish</title>
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	<description>Trying to nail down the shifting signifiers</description>
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		<title>By: Anthony Velez</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anthony Velez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kevin - Regarding your second comment... Really?!?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kevin &#8211; Regarding your second comment&#8230; Really?!?</p>
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		<title>By: Simon Jones</title>
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		<dc:creator>Simon Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay, so if not normal is abnormal then cool before it was cool is uncool ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so if not normal is abnormal then cool before it was cool is uncool <img src='http://www.thedarkglass.net/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: K.L.B.</title>
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		<dc:creator>K.L.B.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;...&lt;em&gt;one of those blessed moments when you get out of your normal frame of reference&lt;/em&gt;&quot;?

Just exactly what does THAT mean? 

Is that some veiled reference to a freaky-deeky psychedelic drug experience with mescaline, psilocybin, MDMA or LSD? 

Normal is good. The opposite is abnormal.

Toward greater clarity, may I suggest instead the adjective&quot;typical&quot;? It stems etymologically from the Greek &quot;typikos,&quot; which means &quot;equivalent to.&quot; 

Psychological use of the word &quot;normal&quot; (and you did write about one&#039;s &quot;normal frame of reference&quot;) would mean &quot;free from any mental disorder - sane.&quot; 

So now the question arises: Were you on drugs when you wrote that? 

However, in the case where I consider the point you were hoping to make - or at least are/were attempting to suggest; that being considering things from the perspective of another - I recollect writing a poem about a small puddle of water through which I tromped one day while walking to school. 

Wearing my mountain hiking boots as I typically did (yup... I was cool before it was cool), I walked to school because we lived nearby, and it happened to have rained early in the morning, before daybreak that day. 

Upon being seated at my desk, I wrote a little poem about the puddle wondering about its microscopic contents. I do not recollect all of the poem, save this concluding passage - &quot;where other tiny worlds are in upheaval.&quot; 

-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bible.cc/proverbs/27-17.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[As] iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens the wits of another.&lt;/a&gt; Proverbs 27:17 GWT-</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;<em>one of those blessed moments when you get out of your normal frame of reference</em>&#8220;?</p>
<p>Just exactly what does THAT mean? </p>
<p>Is that some veiled reference to a freaky-deeky psychedelic drug experience with mescaline, psilocybin, MDMA or LSD? </p>
<p>Normal is good. The opposite is abnormal.</p>
<p>Toward greater clarity, may I suggest instead the adjective&#8221;typical&#8221;? It stems etymologically from the Greek &#8220;typikos,&#8221; which means &#8220;equivalent to.&#8221; </p>
<p>Psychological use of the word &#8220;normal&#8221; (and you did write about one&#8217;s &#8220;normal frame of reference&#8221;) would mean &#8220;free from any mental disorder &#8211; sane.&#8221; </p>
<p>So now the question arises: Were you on drugs when you wrote that? </p>
<p>However, in the case where I consider the point you were hoping to make &#8211; or at least are/were attempting to suggest; that being considering things from the perspective of another &#8211; I recollect writing a poem about a small puddle of water through which I tromped one day while walking to school. </p>
<p>Wearing my mountain hiking boots as I typically did (yup&#8230; I was cool before it was cool), I walked to school because we lived nearby, and it happened to have rained early in the morning, before daybreak that day. </p>
<p>Upon being seated at my desk, I wrote a little poem about the puddle wondering about its microscopic contents. I do not recollect all of the poem, save this concluding passage &#8211; &#8220;where other tiny worlds are in upheaval.&#8221; </p>
<p>-<a href="http://bible.cc/proverbs/27-17.htm" rel="nofollow">[As] iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens the wits of another.</a> Proverbs 27:17 GWT-</p>
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		<title>By: Anthony Velez</title>
		<link>http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/02/12/jelly-bag-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-12515</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Velez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Simon - Since I have written this little poem I have thought about that scene from American Beauty, but it wasn&#039;t a conscious source when I wrote it. Unconsciously, however, who is to say. Whatever the case, when I saw the bag moving it was really like looking at a living thing. It was one of those blessed moments when you get out of your normal frame of reference.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simon &#8211; Since I have written this little poem I have thought about that scene from American Beauty, but it wasn&#8217;t a conscious source when I wrote it. Unconsciously, however, who is to say. Whatever the case, when I saw the bag moving it was really like looking at a living thing. It was one of those blessed moments when you get out of your normal frame of reference.</p>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reminds me of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWU4QhJ4L8</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reminds me of&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWU4QhJ4L8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWU4QhJ4L8</a></p>
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		<title>By: K.L.B.</title>
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		<dc:creator>K.L.B.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Keep your day job. You&#039;re no Jack Kerouac. ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keep your day job. You&#8217;re no Jack Kerouac. <img src='http://www.thedarkglass.net/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Roger Green</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roger Green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Quite vivid.

I&#039;m interested in your opinion about something, at your leisure: http://rogerowengreen.blogspot.com/2010/02/found-post-gonna-take-miracle.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quite vivid.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m interested in your opinion about something, at your leisure: <a href="http://rogerowengreen.blogspot.com/2010/02/found-post-gonna-take-miracle.html" rel="nofollow">http://rogerowengreen.blogspot.com/2010/02/found-post-gonna-take-miracle.html</a></p>
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