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[UPDATE] Beth Closing Little-boxes

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King Mob
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[UPDATE] Beth Closing Little-boxes

E-mail received from Beth posted by danman_d, in the Interaction area: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=31381#31381

Subject: "Closing the Box":

Quote:

As many of you know, several weeks ago journey of discovery. What started as a
simple curiosity about several loosely related events turned into a complex
obsession; one that took me from friends and family and distracted me from work.
The things I have learned, the people and phenomena I have come into contact
with, have forced me to fundamentally question and re-examine everything I
thought was true about the world. Not only the tapestry of my assumptions about
my interpersonal relationships with my friends, but also the fabric of my
reality as I understood it, all seemed to come unraveled at the same time.
Confronted at every turn with events which seemed to cruelly mock and subvert my
own sense of logic and self, I could easily have fallen to pieces. The fact that
I have not was in no small part due to the support and timely intervention of
several unexpected friends new and old:
...a fellow-traveler investigator and journalist of the extreme, whose love and
support, I now realize, means more to me now than ever before;
...a strangely inquisitive man whose oddly stilted speech patterns masked a
powerful curiosity that rivaled my own;
...a co-worker whose slightly sarcastic energy was infectious to me and a source
of some cheer, even if I never was quite sure of her motivations;
...a spunky and adventurous little ball of fur who seems to have developed quite
a taste for camping in the outdoors;
...a beautiful young boy who smiled at me through his tears even though I saw
his heart break;
...and dozens and dozens of disembodied voices coming to me through the ether,
names unfamiliar to me who nonetheless somehow came upon the journal of my
investigations, and who reached across the miles in thousands of little boxes on
my computer screen to offer their support.
For these friends, and the gifts they brought me, I will be forever grateful. As
I look at this box overflowing with wonderful and confusing memories and some
questions that will never be answered, I realize that the time has come to add
it to the others in the closet. So, until I open the next box, good-bye. I thank
you all for your support and encouragement. It truly was a pleasure getting to
know you. If you?re ever in Redland, be sure to look me up.
Beth

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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 4:19 pm

ChainedLightning
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Re: [UPDATE] Beth Closing Little-boxes

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The things I have learned, the people and phenomena I have come into contact with, have forced me to fundamentally question and re-examine everything I thought was true about the world. Not only the tapestry of my assumptions about my interpersonal relationships with my friends, but also the fabric of my reality as I understood it, all seemed to come unraveled at the same time. Confronted at every turn with events which seemed to cruelly mock and subvert my own sense of logic and self, I could easily have fallen to pieces.

The truth isn't easy for her... and she doesn't even know the WHOLE truth yet. Or at least, I don't think she does. I tend to think that knowing the whole truth might be easier than just knowing the part she knows.

Quote:

...a fellow-traveler investigator and journalist of the extreme, whose love and support, I now realize, means more to me now than ever before;
...a strangely inquisitive man whose oddly stilted speech patterns masked a powerful curiosity that rivaled my own;
...a co-worker whose slightly sarcastic energy was infectious to me and a source of some cheer, even if I never was quite sure of her motivations;
...a spunky and adventurous little ball of fur who seems to have developed quite a taste for camping in the outdoors;
...a beautiful young boy who smiled at me through his tears even though I saw his heart break;

Notice the people talked about in the present tense and the past tense

Phil is present tense
GC is past tense
Kat is past tense
Laika is present tense
Jesse is past tense

So, yet another clue that Kat is gone. My question is, since she hasn't been to work.. who told her?

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...and dozens and dozens of disembodied voices coming to me through the ether, names unfamiliar to me who nonetheless somehow came upon the journal of my investigations, and who reached across the miles in thousands of little boxes on my computer screen to offer their support.

Very cool - you don't get to change the story when reading a novel.. remember the movie "The Neverending Story"? This reminds me of that.

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So, until I open the next box, good-bye. I thank you all for your support and encouragement. It truly was a pleasure getting to know you. If you?re ever in Redland, be sure to look me up.

What is she saying here? Is she closing the website, or she's closing this "file" and calling it a box?

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 4:52 pm

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