Without looking, can you guess…

[GuiltyCowboy]

…what the very first post in this forum was about, all the way back in October 1999?

I just had a look at page 1503 of this forum and was amused to see that there is a thread started by someone asking how long it takes for a submission to appear and another on how to deal with a story where the characters are teenagers but not under age. One wonders whether we really live in time.

Anyway, very first post? Not what I was expecting.

[it’s possible that threads disappear off the back of this forum? Certainly, the posts currently on the last page - dating from late 1999 - don’t have the feel of being the very first posts in the forum.]

 

[TheLobster]

One wonders whether we really live in time.

We live in a society; time is a flat circle.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

We live in a society; time is a flat circle.

Wait, you mean that strange lady always on the telly back in the 80s was telling porky pies?

 

[MelissaBaby]

I remember some of the old timers on the General Board saying that there was a previous forum that didn’t get transferred when the site was moved to a new server or something, but I don’t know any more than that.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Time is a flat circle

 

[StillStunned]

…what the very first post in this forum was about, all the way back in October 1999?

I just had a look at page 1503 of this forum and was amused to see that there is a thread started by someone asking how long it takes for a submission to appear and another on how to deal with a story where the characters are teenagers but not under age. One wonders whether we really live in time.

Anyway, very first post? Not what I was expecting.

[it’s possible that threads disappear off the back of this forum? Certainly, the posts currently on the last page - dating from late 1999 - don’t have the feel of being the very first posts in the forum.]

I spent some time looking at the old posts a few months ago. I recall reading a reply by Laurel explaining that approval took so long because she had to review dozens of submissions every day!

And also that someone was writing software that would cut the approval time by 70%.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Time is a flat circle

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

 

[nice90sguy]

My second post on Lit, in May '02, back when I had black pubes and the wide-eyed smile of an ingenue:

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/what-an-amazing-site.86013/

 

[AwkwardlySet]

In every turning of the Wheel, events repeat, with new protagonists and nuances. The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.

 

[big_cane_sugar]

Fair chance the last post will be the same thing....

 

[caleb35]

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

I haven't read this in a long while, and when I do think back on it, it's usually the opening stanza I recall instead of this part. Thanks for the post. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must return to the party. In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo.

 

[caleb35]

Ka is a wheel.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I haven't read this in a long while, and when I do think back on it, it's usually the opening stanza I recall instead of this part. Thanks for the post. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must return to the party. In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo.

Anthony Hopkins seems like a good choice to read it. I think that Hannibal Lecter knew the poem. Probably Clarice did too. Buffalo Bill: highly unlikely. That guy couldn't even wash his dishes regularly.

 

[caleb35]

If I had to guess, I'd opine that Lecter knew it but that he didn't care for it -- Prufrock is far too passive for Lecter to be interested in.

 

[big_cane_sugar]

If I had to guess, I'd opine that Lecter knew it but that he didn't care for it -- Prufrock is far too passive for Lecter to be interested in.

He might've identified with the eternal Footman holding the coat.

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

I wonder what the Y2K scare was like on Lit. There would've only been a few months of stories "at risk."

 

[SimonDoom]

Time is a bus with a deranged driver, and he keeps driving back to the same stop, but he won't let me get off.

 

[gunhilltrain]

If I had to guess, I'd opine that Lecter knew it but that he didn't care for it -- Prufrock is far too passive for Lecter to be interested in.

Possibly it reminds him of one his patients. Maybe even one he didn't eat.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Time is a bus with a deranged driver, and he keeps driving back to the same stop, but he won't let me get off.

Or like one of those trains that homeless people ride back and forth all night so they can sleep. The "A" train is popular because the one-way trip is so long. Allen Ginsberg wrote about the best minds of his generation:

"who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children brought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo," *

* explanatory note: Zoo is probably the now-closed nearby station at 182nd Street.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Author’s Hangout:

 

[Nynah]

Or like one of those trains that homeless people ride back and forth all night so they can sleep.

Back when I lived in NYC, I'd see them the most on the E, especially during winter. Probably because it stays underground the whole ride through.

The "A" train is popular because the one-way trip is so long.

The A gets all the accolades but the F was actually my favorite because it terminates in Coney Island and the views as you're going through the alphabet stops and approaching the terminal are pretty darn cool.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

Possibly it reminds him of one his patients. Maybe even one he didn't eat.

Would Lecter have eaten Prufrock? Now that’s one hell of a question!

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

The A gets all the accolades but the F was actually my favorite because it terminates in Coney Island and the views as you're going through the alphabet stops and approaching the terminal are pretty darn cool.

F is hands-down the best train. Would be great if it crossed a bridge over the East River - for the views - but that’s quibbling.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Or like one of those trains that homeless people ride back and forth all night so they can sleep. The "A" train is popular because the one-way trip is so long. Allen Ginsberg wrote about the best minds of his generation:

"who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children brought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo," *

* explanatory note: Zoo is probably the now-closed nearby station at 182nd Street.

Also, you must take the A Train if you want to get to Sugar Hill in Harlem.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Also, you must take the A Train if you want to get to Sugar Hill in Harlem.

Duke Ellington seemed to like it.