1/ generalizing on this point: movies are a perfected social technology, and they just NAIL the conclusion, more often than not. At the 90-120 minute mark, the goal is accomplished, the guy gets the girl, the music swells, the light goes golden, he kisses her & gets the medalhttps://twitter.com/NotWesleyWelker/status/1476980289801011202 …
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3/ I sometimes try to pay attention to transitions to give them proper weight ...but I end up missing them more often than not (sometimes bc I'm in a rush to unload the dishwasher etc, as per previous tweet). The last class of college, I stood up, walked out ...
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4/ ...and only THEN realized that that was the last formal class I would ever take in my life. When I got married, the morning was hectic, wife was still sewing her dress, my parents were over, I was racing to get the rings from the workshop, verifying paperwork on hand
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5/ ...raced to church, got there w my very very small crowd ( <10 people), words were said, OMG, wait it just HAPPENED ?
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6/ writing my first novel, finish a draft, finish another draft, send it out for proofing, format the text, do some work w kickstarter, back and forth back and forth all while doing the day job click the "go live" button at kickstarter...wait, holy cow, I guess I just published
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>marriage ceremony completed On The Personal Narrative Utility Of A Honeymoon As A Closure Mechanism (Funerals explicitly do this, but I suspect a lot of traditions implicitly do)
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So, just like the (non-)ending of a Neal Stephenson novel? :-)
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