Or blog
friends.. some of you email friends, sometimes I wonder if we are all
nothing but
voices, written voices basically.
Only two of
you I met once in separate circumstances and places.
One looked
young in her voice and looked small and sprightly,
her words
on the screen had painted that picture of her to me.
The person I
met was tall and imposing, not a sprightly girl but a great mother.
And the
other…
well, for a
year, I thought I was going to meet a man, that name to my ears, Daniel,
sounded
male. Fortunately I came across the photo before the meeting.
A young woman,
in the photo ,a young, loud, enthusiast woman ( and” man” before…I had to
adjust my feelings..) and in the words.
But time
had passed, the photo was old, she was now a gentle lady in her middle age.
And her
voice: her words had painted to me a thrilling, loud tone. None of that.
None.
Her voice
was instead solemn and sober and low.
What a
simple gap, what a clear wide gulf between a voice on a screen
and an
actual human being.
Is this all too obvious, close to the famous “nothing
is what seems”?
Allow me
now to conclude with a quote
that can or
can’t be, an appropriate note:
“Between
the idea
And the
reality
…..
Falls the
Shadow.”
Maybe no
gap is ever too obvious.
2 comments:
Everything you write here is true enough. We never know for sure who it is we are addressing or reading. But then on which side of the shadow is the idea (presumably our mistaken idea?) and on which side the reality?
Thank you David, these questions of yours are as powerful as impossible to answer. The best questions that can be asked.
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