A Dove flies from a Silver Cage

[gurdonark]

[Poll #354420]

Comments

[withfire.livejournal.com]

Your polls always scare me. I feel as though I'm undergoing some devious psychological exam.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I picture them more like handing you a kaleidoscope,and hoping you'll smile. Then, by looking at the other answers, getting to see what the others see through their kaleidoscopes.

For some reason, you've passed any hypothetical examination in my book, long ago. That's curious, in a way, because for all the revelations of your journal, I don't feel I know you that well. I can't quite claim to grok the fullness of you, but somehow your forehead is marked with the enumeration of the saved.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I see in my other comment I said "enumeration of the saved". When I figure out what that means, I'll get back to you.

[a-lad-inane.livejournal.com]

You now know all there is to know about me.

It's a good thing you asked me only three questions...because I know only three things.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you played! But I fancy you a renaissance man.

Are you much of a fish out of water where you live?

[a-lad-inane.livejournal.com]

Let's put it this way; I've been out of the water for so long, my gills have turned into lungs.

Do I strike you as a "fish out of water" type?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe a walking catfish!

It's fun to be the only kid on your block who doesn't listen to the kids on the block, sometimes.

[blue-by-you.livejournal.com]

Your polls are brilliant and always fascinating. I struggled over what to do with the 50 billion dollars and then decided to go with my first answer, mostly because I expected everyone would say health care and I'm not sure if that was me trying to be different, politically-incorrect or simply frightened of the next 9/11.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was surprised I could think of so few choices. I'm frightened of the next terrorist incident, too, and also frightened that so little, really, has been done to prepare for its aftermath.

[drowned-books.livejournal.com]

Oops! Misread the 'sense of hope' question - didn't read the 'unlikely' bit.

So, something 'unlikely'...That's a tough one. The things that give me any hope at all are pretty basic, obvious things. Sorry :-/

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

In your place, I might take a sense of hope from a well-written personalized rejection slip, as in the long run it's one more clue that eventually you'll sell a novel.

[drowned-books.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be a good and apt one for me :-)

[nacowafer.livejournal.com]

Those last three really tied my brain in a knot! Adverbs tend to confuse me...

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Well, and it doesn't help that the grammar on one is wrong. Spelling and grammar and these polls don't go together, somehow.

[deriasys.livejournal.com]

Oh I do enjoy your polls. Because there really isn't anything more unexpectly delightful than reading other people's answers!