danup's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=danup2006-12-04T08:42:33ZIt's Snowing (place)http://everything2.com/user/danup/writeups/It%2527s+Snowingdanuphttp://everything2.com/user/danup2006-12-04T08:42:33Z2006-12-04T08:42:33Z<p>When the snow falls that hard and so regularly over the period of a night or so this place becomes a de facto pedestrian campus, city, <a href="/title/miniature+you%2527re-big-people-now+downtown+approximation">miniature you're-big-people-now downtown approximation</a>. The streets are big sidewalks.</p>
<p>Our patterns are pulled from us, even though we're clinging to them <em>so</em> hard until that last finger falls straight from their weird edges. We sit where we are and talk about snow, maybe. <a href="/title/Snow+angel">snow angels</a>, <a href="/title/snowball+fight">snowball fights</a>, snow football, <a href="/title/massive+crop-circle+snow+outlines">massive crop-circle snow outlines</a> of genitalia, stick-on-parking-lot, of the <a href="/title/impressionist">impressionist</a> method. It's our <a href="/title/svengali">svengali</a> for a few days, and afterward we're left with a big white void where that big white void was.</p>
<p>The new pedestrians walk around in warm clothes and keep to themselves. Eyes straight ahead. It's small enough here that you can't do that, and big enough that you don't realize you can't do that.</p>
<p>Eventually your new pattern, that forced spontaneity that hardens like the<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…