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2006年04月15日

Phone phun

The fragility of human communication is severe enough without the interference of a capricious, ubiquitous, expensive and unreliable telecommunication device: the mobile phone. For the past half a week my phone, possibly in partnership with the service provider, has been injesting, withholding, and misplacing text messages both to and from my friends and acquaintances.

The efficacy of this technique cannot be underestimated. There is no better way to meddle in one's life than to cut off one's tongue and plug one's ears. Textually silent and textually mute. Few things are as insulting as an unanswered plea and few things as offensive as a plea unsent.

Your heart will deceive you where the silicon does not. An active imagination paints details for which reality herself has not the wit. The truth, amusing as it should be, acerbic in its sting and relieving in its brevity, arrives days behind schedule and as fashionable as overdue.

There is no lesson to life but this: regret is a derivative of one thing, and that thing is not action.

Posted by William at 2006年04月15日 23:15

Comments

Posted by: karaoke.mike at 2006年04月16日 15:22

Posted by: Jason at 2006年04月17日 07:56