poll: the first two sentences of impro begin "As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child" - does this describe an experience you remember?
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i am on team "no" myself, i don't remember childhood having special vividness or intensity :/ hard to know how much of this is that my memories generally lack sensory / experiential detail. wonder if there's something i forgot i could remember here 🧐
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started reading a paper copy of impro and the margins are too small to make notes in but i am underlining and copying quotes i really like to a quotes doc with comments
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i have to read this book so slowly. keith johnstone will write a paragraph and i feel like i could think about it for weeks. this little bit here about betty is one of my favorite things anyone has ever written
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nice
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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
― Emerson
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my childhood in washington was pretty gray and dull, it's a lot brighter these days
I played a lot of video games to dissociate from the things around me and now rarely feel a temptation to do that
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i didn't know you grew up in washington! i played a lot of video games in washington too 😅
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No because I didnt remember the intensity of my childhood after it started getting grey and dull. I didnt even know it went grey. No backward vision. Only now that I've begun to recover do I have the mental fitness, openness,& self awareness to recall some peak childhood feelings
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god that sounds nice. still haven't recovered any significant childhood feelings myself 😅
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