Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-19 Thread 118
Hi Dan, Yea, I get it, my mistake. I was confused by the sudden switch. Mark On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: OK. My only suggestion is to write I pouted instead of he

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-19 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:05 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dan, Yea, I get it, my mistake.  I was confused by the sudden switch. Mark Hi Mark That is understandable. In a first draft, the writer knows what he wants to say but it might not be clear to the reader as

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-17 Thread Dan Glover
Lisa, he said. Do you really have to go? He was lying in bed still naked, watching her pull herself into her tight jeans. Her ample bared breasts jiggled as she bounced into her pants. Are you asking me to stay, Billy? she said, sucking in her stomach to button her jeans. Yes. Then I'll stay!

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-17 Thread 118
OK. My only suggestion is to write I pouted instead of he pouted. Mark On Jul 17, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: Lisa, he said. Do you really have to go? He was lying in bed still naked, watching her pull herself into her tight jeans. Her ample bared breasts

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-17 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: OK. My only suggestion is to write I pouted instead of he pouted. Well, I believe that would be considered proper if the writing were in first person. It is not. Rather, the story is being told in third person

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-16 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:20 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: While I turned away to spare him any shame, the hands of God grabbed me deep within and made me turn around and visualize him one more time.  The old man still sat there with his head down, tears dry, silent

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-16 Thread 118
Hi Dan, Yes, imitation is the highest form of flattery. Your welcome, Mark On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:20 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: While I turned away to spare him any shame, the hands of God

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-15 Thread Dan Glover
What's your name? She asked the question late one night when they were closing up. He'd been too shy to approach Lisa but he knew her name; he couldn't quite understand why she didn't know his name as well. They'd been working together nearly a month now. But then in between the space of her

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-15 Thread MarshaV
On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:25 AM, 118 wrote: Hi Marsha, Yeah, you had told me about that painting a while ago. Steve Martin's latest book has an interesting little piece on buying Russian paintings. Did you ever read An Object of Beauty? You mentioned the painting in the same discuss topic

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-15 Thread 118
While I turned away to spare him any shame, the hands of God grabbed me deep within and made me turn around and visualize him one more time. The old man still sat there with his head down, tears dry, silent now,. The church door behind where he sat suddenly opened and a small child appeared,

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-15 Thread 118
Yes, I was not here yet. LBJ and his Great Society. We are still feeling the effects. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:52 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:25 AM, 118 wrote: Hi Marsha, Yeah, you had told me about that painting a while ago. Steve Martin's latest book has an

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-14 Thread 118
Yeah, I can see it now The distant red neon shivered in the heat I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land You know where people play games with the night God, it was too hot to sleep I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee All of a sudden I could hear somebody whistling

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-14 Thread 118
Hi Marsha, Yeah, you had told me about that painting a while ago. Steve Martin's latest book has an interesting little piece on buying Russian paintings. Did you ever read An Object of Beauty? You mentioned the painting in the same discuss topic where you were talking about Turner (and others)

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-13 Thread MarshaV
Hi Dan, I've only bought one oil painting, a painting by a Russian artist. It has a flavor of Venice with this strange creature that cannot rightly be identified as a male or female, even though it might be wearing what could be called a dress-like costume. As often as I've studied this

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-13 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/12/11 9:17 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: snip So, what does this look like when we are relating something that happened in the past?  Well, we must remember that things that happened in the past were happening in the present at one time.  By present I mean that infinitesimal

[MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-12 Thread 118
Once he had lived with his new awareness and gotten used to it, he wished to share it with others. When the breakdown first happened, he was left without ability to share what he saw. Gradually, he had recovered from the original shock, and spent time with his new awareness trying to understand

Re: [MD] Posting in Dynamic Quality Format: The divide between the Social Layer and the Individual Layer

2011-07-12 Thread Dan Glover
They locked him up... told him he was crazy. After enough time had passed, he knew it too. He must be crazy. He could see it in everyone's eyes. He heard it in the way they talked to him. He felt it in the way they kept their distance. Like they were afraid. Not of him, but of what he'd become. Or