Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience members, who want nothing more than to like the show that is being performed for them. Fortunately, the students involved in Hong Kong met the audience halfway, putting a lot of effort into making the evening fun for all concerned--and that's really the only thing that matters in the world of the Freshman Musical...
...dozen-odd people had collected to try and address the situation. This is when the story becomes worrisome. The girl showed no signs of improvement in a half-hour of care and gentle attempts to revive her. From what little experience I've had with this kind of thing, it appeared that what she needed most was someone to stay up with her while she slept it off. However, it might have been more serious than that, and here we reach the crux of the problem...
While most of these notes get thrown out, I've been hanging on to one particular scrap that grabbed my attention. It bears only the Jeopardy-esque remark, "A Portuguese word that means 'nostalgia for a thing that never existed.'" I don't know where this note came from or what in fact the word is. A cursory search of Portuguese speakers and dictionaries has failed to find it, and I'm beginning to suspect that it, too, is a thing that never existed...
...Describing an image in a Arachne's web, Hollander claims "That image of her seemed, for too long a moment,/To be even more real than she was herself." Searching for the deepest realm of truth, he moves into layers of representation, "the metaphor within the metaphor,/The thing itself, that very thing" and finds himself caught in a downward spiral of artifice in attempts to locate truth and the perfect language...
What to Look For Disappointment. Every moment will tug at our heart strings, but you can only say, "You're all clear kid, let's blow this thing and go home" once...