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Sunday, October 23, 2005

an “ant” thing

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  • Excellent story… I saw your post in the forum… I will say two things that I hope will help you… One, you write in a natural free form, which is fantastic, some people struggle for years to learn to write like they think or speak (ahem…guilty, I am… Two, as you stated, being from another country, you struggle with little things like syntax, grammar, & spelling (didnt is actually didn’t, could’nt is couldn’t, centre is center, unless you’re in Europe or Canada, but that is all little stuff you’ll pick up as you post & read more…Consider it obstacles being placed before you that you must climb over…Any help I can be, let me know, & I will assist…Also, when you are submitting these, you may want to skip a line between paragraphs to insert a break, so that this…
    I just wanted to make it change its path on it’s own.
    Sitting their I realized I have way too much free time but seriously…

    Becomes this…

    I just wanted to make it change its path on it’s own.

    Sitting their I realized I have way too much free time but seriously…

    Giving your writing a visual break where one thought process wraps & another begins…

    Excellent….Keep posting…

    Posted by deminizer  on  10/23  at  06:53 PM
  • ...way too much free time…

    I’d say not.  Maybe it was the mood I’m in but this was awesome.  I loved it.

    My own optimism about the ant is based on two ideas:
    1) Creatures without this massive forebrain like we humans have are always doing just exactly what they want.  They get what they need to live by doing it and they enjoy the getting as well as the effort they must exert to get it.  This is because they have no capacity to recognize cause and effect, so all they have is instinct, and it drives them to act, and that acting is pure pleasure.
    2) Ants live in their ant trails.  They pull food this way and that, dropping crumbs that other ants pick up.  They tend to drop more food in the nest, where the babies are born and the queen lays her eggs and it’s warm, but that is really just a chemical side effect.  Scout ants are the enigma for me.  They wander off away from the scent of their colony toward the scent of food becaue they feel like it.  I wonder if anyone has studied ants well enough to tell if a scout is always a scout or if an ant acts as a scout for a while and then goes back to hang out in the trail for a while.  It would make more sense that ants become scouts when they get either extremely full or extremely hungry.  Anyway… Great piece!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  10/23  at  07:48 PM
  • I like that you write from the simple things in life.To many times many people dont realize how a bird,cat or ant can teach us so much.Good reading

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  10/28  at  02:58 AM
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