The pit.

[Mr. Tea]

I even said "I really mean this" and really meant it!

I think the irony-poisoned @version reacted to your sincerity like a vampire to a fine mist of garlic-infused holy water.

 

[version]

I actually suffer from Sarcastic Voice Syndrome and it’s very annoying.

 

[Corpsey]

I would just like to say, and I really mean this, that @Corpsey is one of the most sophisticated and sensitive souls on this forum. His fixation with the more squalid realities of life and his catastrophic lack of self-esteem is actually is the sign of a highly refined sensibility struggling for self-determination.

Aww shucks

 

[...]

Exactly.

The way Corpsey writes about his life is like the way Sartre wrote about the prisoners condemned to death in 'The Wall'.

He has a finely wrought understanding of the existential dimensions and physical properties of his own predicament.

 

[entertainment]

He has a finely wrought understanding of the existential dimensions and physical propeties of his own predicament.

that was uncalled for, he's not that fat!

 

[version]

I would just like to say, and I really mean this, that @Corpsey is one of the most sophisticated and sensitive souls on this forum. His fixation with the more squalid realities of life and his catastrophic lack of self-esteem is actually the sign of a highly refined sensibility struggling for self-determination.

Just came across the phrase "Cathedrals of Erotic Misery" and thought of Corpsey.

 

[...]

A cathedral of crisp tissues.

 

[version]

In September 1866, Emerson writes in his journal, “There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are two absorbing facts, — I and the Abyss.”

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