In his time on the Forum, he's grown as a reader, an editor, a creative writer, as a person, and as a digital citizen in ways he foresaw, and in unforeseen, welcome, sublime, and profound ways, for which he gives hearty thanks.
He heartily thanks Forum members who have provided him insights, topics and subjects for study--and unwitting subjects for observation--and who generously welcomed and supported and encouraged him. He gives special thanks for those who, for a saddly too brief a time, shared with him a moment or two of intimate comraderie in his passions. He is deeply moved by those figurative embraces.
If the one-percenter rule applies--he believes it does for both you heroic outliers and you ignoble miscreants participating above and below the pleasanter corps of the Forum's participants--he thanks you one-percenters too for forcing him to appreciate that a healthy, diverse lifestyle gives and takes all kinds of viewpoints.
Therefore, with one percent of his gratitude, he also thanks you ignoble miscreants for your unwitting, impulsive, or deliberate trespasses. You contributed in large, unintended ways to his personal and creative growth. Noteably, you gave him deep insights into his failings and frailities. You goaded him into learning how to better cope with his damaged personality and your trespasses upon it.
He offers in return an earnest fare-thee-well gift, a list of principal causes of you ignoble miscreants' trespasses you perpetrate on the Forum and those you and others of your ill-willed ilk perpetuate abroad so that you may know them in order to take what corrective action you can, and so you will be known by your ignoble actions.
He thanks you ignoble miscreants for prompting him to learn how to write about, read, interpret, and understand those fallacies and frailties in whoever he encounters them, and thanks you for teaching him how those trespasses once crippled his ability to communicate, due to and contributing to his miseries, and from learning about, now offers him some small measure of quiet, patient endurance for yours and others' trespasses.
He thanks all for their positivity, and you ignoble miscreants' negativity, for prompting his sharing this swan song. Although it has kicked around in his mind since his abrupt departure, prompting this farewell soliloquy, he intended to keep it to himself. However, after a critical examination of his motives, his stakes, his conscience, he decided to let it fall where it may.
He asks forgiveness for his trespasses, please.
Thank you, Ms. Dalton-Woodbury, for your judicious forbearance, your many and various praiseworthy contributions, and your compassion.
Once again, extrinsic ranges alone on the coldly comforting periphery; pages to read, to write, to study, to edit, to publish before he sleeps.
[This message has been edited by extrinsic (edited February 26, 2010).]
No longer helpful, I understand. But harmful? Now I'm worried.
Any chance we could entice you to stick around with a gold-membership? Maybe chocolates?
Edited to add: Feel free to email me if you ever need a respectful discussion or critique.
[This message has been edited by philocinemas (edited February 26, 2010).]
I understand you leaving if you feel that you are gaining nothing here, but I think it is sad if you are leaving only because of a few people have been disrespectful.
I enjoy your posts and insights. I think that you bring a unique perspective to this community, and I will miss you. I hope you change your mind.
Thank you for the help that you have offered me and others. And I wish you luck in your future endeavors.
Best wishes in your continuing endeavors.
Timid as I was upon my first posting in this forum, I braced for a noobie brow beating the second I hit submit. To my delight and relief insightful feedback, which came in a long and wise post was what I instead recieved. This contribution led to a few group sessions that discussed published short stories and to this day was the most valuable experience I have had in this workshop.
Thank you , Extrinsic. Your participation in that little group and your contributions to this workshop overall will certainly be missed by me, for one.
I certainly understand the reason you are parting. I myself and a few others I respect and have worked with here have been facing a similar choice to leave for the same reasons.
I wish you the best in all you do. Please shoot me an email, so at least I will be able to contact you when I want to put on a french-press and sip on some wise words for a morning.
Hopefully your leave will only be a brief one. And hopefully you can forgive whoever riled you up. I always say nobody's perfect - one day they are angels, the next day they are a**es, then the day after that they are angels again. Can't be helped, we all are an unpredictable bunch. Forgive, accept, and move on, I always say. Or it'll drive you nuts, lol.
Anyway, good luck on your future endeavors, hope you get a lot of writing done, and hope you one day decide to come back.
I suspect he will be back for one or more encore performances.
Oh, and thanks for introducing me to poly-modernism it gave me hope that there was life after post-modernism.
Yes, I'm a dork. But it's such a great tenor solo!
Where are these ruffians? And where is this conflict? I'm not saying it isn't here, I just don't see it so I'm curious.
I always thought I was the resident miscreant. And I don't think this is my fault, given my absence.
So who's been upstaging me? I know the job market has been rough lately but come on!
And like the three ruffians of old, you'll never gain a master craftsman's understanding by killing him and hiding his remains under an acacia.
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Best of luck to you.
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or what was it that Albert Einstein called those who do things over and over again, expecting different results?
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