my son is a teenager.
he used to write rap songs, then he got into country music and this was his
direct observation. "Mom, it's a lot easier to write rap than country
songs." Lucas Starbuck teenager
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>From: Reed Altemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: teenage poetic perspective
>Date: Mon, Apr 24, 2000, 4:02 AM
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> "S.E. Nte" wrote:
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>> I wrote:
>> > > to have much more power or maybe just a different power. Maybe one is
more
>> > > romantic/idealistic at that stage of life...
>> >
>>
>> Heiko wrote:
>> > I dont understand what you mean by that or why you write this. A text is a
>> > text is a text. Do you think reading is just for teenagers ? Certainly
>> > not.
>> >
>> >
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>> Heiko, maybe I didn't make myself clear. What I meant was that what you
>> personally get from a text changes as you get older. When I read certain
>> poems as a teenager I didn't always understand some of the more subtle
>> meanings which I understand when I read them now as an adult. I think that
>> as a teenager I often interpreted things in terms of what I hoped they meant
>> rather than what they really meant....which is why I say that as a teenager
>> one often reads things in a more romantic/idealistic manner.
>>
>> Hope this makes sense.
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> I agree with Sol. It's the same with music, one's abiltity to receive the
message
> and have a response changes over the years. I think it's biological. And
frankly,
> I no longer care if it's a rational response.
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> RA
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