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i'm a bit odd. This often frightens people because i'm not different in manifest attributes or mannerisms, but in buried fundamentals - my last girlfriend liked to call me an alien.
Not surprisingly, i am saddened and frustrated by people who avoid the strange. However, today i was watching an artsy IFC short about a man in a dog costume. As i waited and waited for some kind of meaning, it occurred to me that if i'd been watching the latest Hollywood action flick, i wouldn't have given it a tenth of the chance i gave dog-man. Somehow, this doesn't seem much more honest than those who avoid. So maybe the problem is not in our reaction, but in our perception. Perhaps it's natural to fear new things, but perhaps, also, everything is new.
posted by Arthur @
6/04/2002 06:38:00 PM
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