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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?

yes
43.7%
no
56.3%

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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 🧐

8:29 PM · Mar 26, 2022Twitter Web App

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Mar 26

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@QiaochuYuan

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

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Mar 26

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

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Apr 15

nice

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@girlziplocked

· Apr 10

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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Yeah it's usually some somatic shock that throws me into a realization of how much more open my body used to be when small. Like a smell or a flash of certain color or words that triggers a body sensation. When it happens, I can feel my physical experience was intense back then

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Mar 27

hmm are they smells or colors or words related to your childhood? i don’t think i get exposed to many of those 🤔

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Team no except... Dreams. I have a couple of dreams that I distinctly remember waking up and feeling like I mattered, that I was powerful, almost magical, and I would feel amazing for a day. Like there was something more to life, hiding somewhere

@JudiciaIreview

Mar 31

Imo That's not out of reach, but when you mature you realise tradeoffs means that to maintain that sense for significant periods would not be worthwhile due to the cost(s)