One Of The Oldest Inhabitants
Nov. 9th, 2004 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloHow old are other lj users are compared to me: | ||||||
| There are 751 lj users the same age as me. |
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_imran_ and MemeLand.orgI'm kinda proud of this.
Just call me gran'f'er. I sit in my accustomed seat in the shade of the chestnut tree. My face is a withered apple. The tip of my long white beard keeps dipping into the froth of the tankard of Old Peculiar that I keep balanced on my knee.
Ah, the times that I have seen!
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Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 01:12 pm (UTC)And, come now! Your face isn't any "withered apple"!
And, unless you grew it after your kitchen-painting photograph, you don't have any long, white beard, either!
I'm even older than you! I think I may be the oldest! How awful is that?
But: this morning in the United States, a woman who is 57 is scheduled to give birth.
Personally, at my age, I'd rather have a white beard than a newborn with colic.
Actually, give me another year, and I'll probably have a beard.
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 05:19 pm (UTC)Actually it gives me a good feeling that we- erm- mature bloggers can still mix it with the kids.
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 05:31 pm (UTC)Amazingly, yes! And not patronizingly on our part or humbly on theirs. Everyone is just friends.
Maybe with the barrier of physical presence out of the way, people can just enjoy each others' thoughts. That's the way it should be: we're all equals.
The so-called wisdom I have to offer is just a different set from the wisdom of other people; we all have our own to offer.
(Getting ready to read more of Saxon River. It's wonderful. Now on page 116...)
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 05:40 pm (UTC)I just used the meme to see if I could locate the oldest inhabitant and discovered that there are 368 LJers who claim to be 100. Hmmm....
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 05:58 pm (UTC)You can always tell they are lying--their latest blogs are about breaking up with some girl or failing a test.
Why do they do this? Is 1950 to them a way of saying they are impossibly old, as saying a "jillion dollars" means you're impossibly rich?
I didn't want to put my age out there for a long time. I was ashamed of it.
Then I thought that was ridiculous. I can't help it that I was born in 1945. It's kind of interesting, actually. I was born 6 days after Roosevelt died. And I'm still around to talk about it!
I used to know an man in his 90s who remembered going into a house with his mother at the age of 4 to visit two old women who had lived through the Civil War.
He said they both sat in front of their fireplace at spit tobacco into the fire.
He told me that they remembered hiding their horses from the Yankee soldiers by "crookeding them into the cane," and that they buried their silver in the yard.
He remembered walking with his mother to his granny's house. She was sick in her bed, wearing a white cap. Her mother brought her a stewed chicken in a blue pot.
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 06:50 pm (UTC)I don't believe I posted my true age to begin with. I thought no-one would want to be my friend if I 'fessed up (awwww.)
And my user icon was a shot that only showed my eyes.
That's a wonderful story about the two old ladies.
Can I match it? Not really. My granny remembered a relative who remembered riding on the Isle of Wight ferry with Alfred Lord Tennyson, but the story ends there. Tennyson just sat or stood on deck and failed to do or say anything memorable.
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 07:01 pm (UTC)BTW:
I am so much enjoying the wonderful scene in which Maggie runs to the car to escape the upstairs ghost (and looks of course upstairs to see if a blue light is flickering! Of course!), then has that amazing dream, and is now carrying skipping stones to the rock...
This is just so much fun to read. You will surely win the contest...how I wish I could write so elegantly, yet wittily, too, (she gushed)
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 07:47 pm (UTC)All my novels have ghosts in them. I just can't help myself...
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 07:23 pm (UTC)Birthday is coming up!
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 07:49 pm (UTC)But it's remarkable how friendships spring up on LJ which would never ever- for all sorts of reasons- be possible in "real life".
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-09 08:53 pm (UTC)I am really happy to have met you, by the way. I think you are right, I don't know that we would have been friends without this wondrous little world--and what a sad thought! You light up my days with your insightful entries!
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-10 09:13 am (UTC)Perhaps we are making a new and better world.
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-10 09:36 am (UTC)However, we are letting the world know us and in so doing, are every day collapsing wavefunctions and causing chain reactions like ripples all around us. That, I think, is wonderful. To affect and be affected. Good, bad, whatever. Ours--yes.
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-10 10:01 am (UTC)And we're not in the least bit limited by space. Something written in Australia can have an immediate impact in L.A. or Frankfurt.
We are changing the way the world works....
Re: consolation
Date: 2004-11-10 10:05 am (UTC)Re: consolation
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