Things have finally calmed down on the scifi bboard! Thank goodness!! And thank goodness,..my family is back online as of today!! I can fill up on chocolate mints, and surf the web, and play about on my favorite bboards in peace and quiet and harmony.......as soon as I get my finals and term papers and other bits of this college year..over with!!
Gads! I am so tired of that fighting and bitching and carrying on on that one board!! I have no idea just why I go back there anymore except for the fact that I still like the fans..at least some of them that post regularly there,..and occasionally one gets a really good story or two to enjoy.
I am facing a moral problemo!
What is that line of poetry,.."Oh!...To see ourselves as others see us!!"
That is a line of poetry by one of my favorite scottish poets,..Robert Burns. The line is from his poem,.."To A Louse!" (Singular of lice!!) In the poem, an aristocratic lady is sitting in a elite pew,..looking down her nose at the "commoners,"..who are dressed in rags and forced to view her in her well-clothed self-satisfied glory No person can approach her and no one can compare to her and she is in control of her situation..so she thinks!!
A little louse is climbing about on the back of her dress and will soon be in her hair and be laying eggs on her and biting her and making her life miserable. The person, who is seeing the louse on her,..longs to speak up and warn her that soon she will be the victim of a bad case of lice,..but the lady is sooooo unapproachable...that the speaker in the poem can't even begin to get near her to warn her just as to what she is facing.
I am like the speaker in the poem, but if I attempt to warn the person,..who is soon to be under attack...I most likely would be blamed for causing the attack..even though I have been trying my best to stop it.
Best to keep silent! I
don't need to "learn any new words!!"