Re: Love and Art
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 19 Nov 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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.---- On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 02:18:36 GMT, Roy posted:
|Friends and Fellow Lovers of Art,
|
|In 1971, I think when most of you were very young or perhaps unborn, I
|was in college and met a girl and we were together for almost 3 years.
|We were both very young, much too young to recognize love and
|certainly too young to know what to do about it.
|
|We parted company and did not think much of each other for 25 years,
|except sometimes, late at night, alone, I would think of her and feel
|some vague pain in some hidden place of my heart.
|
|In January of this year, I ran across her [on the internet, of
|course]. I was instantly elated and felt rushes of joy which lasted
|for a month or more. Then, I sank into deep dispair, agony at how
|much we had missed in life, at the impossibility of retrieving that
|which was lost.
|
|In March, I asked your NG to draw me a picture which portrayed a
|certain event in our early time together and BluePard responded with
|some kind of psychic likeness which captured us so exactly, as if he
|knew us. And I sent it to her so that she might remember some of the
|good things between us.
|
|We talked for many months and, during this time, I collected your art
|to ilustrate parts of our discussion. To make a long story short,
|today she agreed to be mine and I agreed to be hers, and we have
|agreed to marry [well, not precisely marry - at our age, the paperwork
|no longer matters so much as that which is in our hearts].
|
|I invite you each to congratulate us. As she has a rather public job,
|I cannot give you her email address but, if you will send me your best
|wishes, I will forward them to her. Her name is Lena and I am known
|as ...
|
|Rayo
|...........................
|Credits are always appropriate in the arts and particularly in the art
|of love. We, in particular, understand that love, above all things,
|is an art. Therefore I give credit to the following:
|
|Mart Atkins - stars wars collection.
|Martin Atkins - some wonderful flowers
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BTW, just to make sure that the people know that the star wars and flowers
ascii wern`t made by me, merely collected and posted. I don`t believe in
taking the credit for other's work, so here's the flowers file I think you
mean! :o)
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so I apologise for that... but the roses are lovely anyway, are they not?
Bye Bye, (and congrats again)
-Martin
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1fddf152d8a7d37f X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) Subject: Re: Love and Art Date: 1998/11/19 Message-ID: <365...@news.vossnet.net> X-Deja-AN: 413646473 References: <365...@news2.realtime.net> X-Complaints-To: abu...@cableinet.net X-Trace: news1.cableinet.co.uk 911512463 9153 195.188.10.2 (19 Nov 1998 21:54:23 GMT) Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet) Reply-To: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Nov 1998 21:54:23 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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