http://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=David Quinn Carder 2009-03-14T22:53:52Z http://everything2.com:80/user/David+Quinn+Carder/writeups/meaninglessDavid Quinn Carderhttp://everything2.com:80/user/David Quinn Carder2009-03-14T22:53:52Z2009-03-14T22:53:52Z <h3><i>found in a text file dated 2008·02·19:</i></h3> <p align="justify">In the morning it was over.</p> <p align="justify">Like a lowly wave washing him onto the beach, the <a href="/title/sobriety">emotional contrast</a> returned. The <a href="/title/want">wants</a>; the <a href="/title/need">needs</a>; the high stakes of living <a href="/title/precarious">precariously</a>: all quietly resumed their posts. In the sunshine, memories rose and turned their heads to gawk&mdash;"what happened to him?", they wanted to know, and "where is he going?", they wondered, because he no longer paid them any mind like he used to.</p> <p align="justify">They were no longer his to bear, and so he <a href="/title/the+only+winning+move+is+not+to+play">ignored them</a>. One day, in the sunshine, he left unnoticed (the same way he came). On a hill across the sea, the flowers pondered "who is he?" and "what brings him here?", but he didn't know, so he laid in the grass beside them and pondered too.</p> <p align="justify">"How wonderful", the flowers thought, "to be so <strong>meaningless</strong>".</p>