[extropy-chat] Some of my Recent Creations

[John K Clark]

Ian you're good, you're damn good. I'd give a million bucks to have half
your talent, and that's not just a figure of speech I mean it quite
literally. One of my most painful memories was me in the first grade when
the teacher asked us to draw something, I forget what. I thought I'd done a
pretty good job but then the teacher told us to hand in our pictures by
passing them to the student ahead of us. I was at the head of the class so I
saw what my fellow students had drawn and my heart filled with despair, each
and every drawing was better than mine, not just a little bit better but
INCOMPARABLY better. Up to then I'd been a argent little bastard but
suddenly I learned I was not the best at everything, in fact I sucked world
class. If the gods were kind they would have given me a hell of a lot
more artistic ability or just a bit little less; as it is I had just enough
to realize how badly I sucked but not enough to do anything about it.
Salieri was to Mozart as I was to Salieri. Fortunately I have other talents
but if art was all there was in the world I'd be in a home for the retarded
right now.

  John K Clark