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I guess you were more diligent then most people who bought the game having only seen the CGI trailers. To be fair all companies do this, to a certain extent, but SWTOR was the first company who's marketing campaign I saw in mainstream media for a new game launch. I dont recall seeing actual game play for more then a few quick seconds sliced into promo developer interviews. That's of course just my personal experience.
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Originally posted by Creslin321
My OP was pretty clear that the voice acting was just part of
Where are the other parts?
Originally posted by Creslin321
For example, myself, and many others brought up the concern that BW"s strategy of making "fully voiced" a flagship feature of the game was problematic in the long-term because it would make creating additional content very cost prohibitive...and in a subscription themepark MMORPG that lives and breathes on content additions...this is not a good thing. And now we hear that (surprise surprise) SWTOR's additional content won't be fully voiced.
You only talk and give credit to voice overs as a feature, no word about anything else.
You even admit it yourself:
Originally posted by Creslin321
I know I only spoke of voice overs in my OP
Backpedaling is bad but there is no need pushing it further and making it even more ridiculous.
LOL I'm really not going to bother anymore. Almost every single person in this thread disagrees with you, that should tell you something. Either we are all morons, or maybe you are wrong.
Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?
Originally posted by Creslin321
First, a definition. Escalation of commitment occurs when a group is working on a project, and at some point in the project it becomes clear that things aren't going well or maybe even the project's original direction is fundamentally flawed, but instead of stepping back and rethinking things, the group just throws more resources at the project in the hope that things will just "work out." This may sound stupid, but it's a relatively common problem. When a group has worked on a project for a long time and invested a lot of resources, sometimes it's tough to admit that mistakes were made early on and rethink things...it can be much easier in the short term to just try to "power through" your difficulties by escalating your commitment to the project. Now onto SWTOR.... The more I look at SWTOR, the problems it's having, and the solutions that its devs are proposing...the more I think that it was a victim of escalation of commitment. For example, myself, and many others brought up the concern that BW"s strategy of making "fully voiced" a flagship feature of the game was problematic in the long-term because it would make creating additional content very cost prohibitive...and in a subscription themepark MMORPG that lives and breathes on content additions...this is not a good thing. And now we hear that (surprise surprise) SWTOR's additional content won't be fully voiced. I really think that at some point during SWTOR's development, its management had to realize at least on some level that this was a big potential problem. But instead of stepping back and rethinking things, they just threw more and more resources at the game and plowed forward. The same can really be said for many of SWTOR's shortcomings such as the single player space combat, the gameplay that apes WoW just a bit too much, and the really half-assed open world PvP. I really feel like at some point in the middle of the project, the devs probably realized that these ideas were all not as good as they seemed at the onset of the project, but basically just chose to plow forward with a flawed concept instead of stepping back and rethinking things. In the end, I really think SWTOR would have been better off with a more iterative development process. All of these systems and ideas should have been prototyped and thoroughly tested, with the knowledge that if it doesn't work, it will be scrapped. And I think this is important...devs really need to be willing to scrap their ideas if they turn out to not work once you see them "in game." But I feel like with SWTOR, the developer just plowed forward with their original ideas regardless of if they "worked" or not. Thoughts?
Problem gets really exacerbated when your dealing with executive management, especialy at public companies. Those folks are put in the positions they are because they are supposed to know how to lead the companies to success. The dirty truth is most of them are actualy pretty clueless about many of the things which are central to what the company does. They are often even pretty clueless basic leadership skills. They may have some expertiese in a specific area like finance, marketing or sales.... but thier primary skills tend to be self-promotion.... i.e. selling thier own self image to others like stockholders, investors and board members. In terms of design, most of them wouldn't know a quality design from a piss poor one if it dropped on thier head.....even if the company only makes one product.
That would be ok in itself...the person at the executive level doesn't really need to know the details of designing something. For the ones who have REAL leadership skills, they can easly work around that. They know thier limitations, they put together a team of people who they trust and trust each other and they delegate to decision making to people who have the experiese to make it. They get the team working together toward a common goal. That's real leadership.
The problem is that real leadership is actualy pretty rare at the executive level. The ones who have it, are definately worth alot. What's far more common at the executive level...again especialy at public companies...is expertiese at SELF-PROMOTION. Contrary to the leader...the self-promotion expert CAN'T acknowledge thier own limitations. It runs CONTRARY to thier nature.... contrary to how they got in the postion in the first place. By nature, they are adverse to ackowledging areas of deficiency in thier own knowldge, lapses of judgement or mistakes. This extends also to not allowing thier TEAMS to back-track, admit mistakes or rethink direction.... because they believe that reflects poorly on THEM as leaders, as they were the ones who picked and managed the team afterall.
This can lead to a pretty fatal situation....as such executives often try to intefere in much lower level decisions (micro-manage) which they aren't equiped to make.... because they need to try to establish the PERCEPTION that they are experts in all areas of the organizations functions.....and when things do start to go wrong, they are unwilling to admit it...even internaly among thier own TEAMS.....and especialy they are unwilling to allow anything that might foster the PUBLIC perception that the TEAM is back-tracking on a decision or changing course because there is something wrong. That often leads to just the situation that Creslin described..... throwing more and more resources at something which clearly isn't working well in the hopes that brute force and expenditure of resources will get it to work, rather then admit the problem. Of course, that only reinforces the motivation to avoid acknowledging the problem or changing course...because now there is even more invested in the existing course.
I honestly think ALOT of failed projects/designs/products can be attributed to that factor.
What Bioware is doing now shows the inherent contradiction in SWTOR. So much focus is put on the class storyline but most of the game is grinding the same quests alt after alt (because why wouldn't you play out all 8 storylines?), ridiculous PvP areas, solitary space missions and flashpoints. So is it a storyline based MMO or a glorified solofest? If it is about storylines, then why not have race-based quests too? Have your Twi'lek discover the truth about the forced migration. Have your purebred Sith get involved with throwing off their human oppressors. Instead, BW is about adding more of what we don't want in the game.


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Recognizing that design can be a force for social good, the Museum of Design Atlanta has announced a new exhibition called "Design for Social Impact" that examines how architects, students, professors, and designers are using design to solve some of our society's more nagging problems.
The exhibit, which opens on May 25 and runs through August 3, will feature projects that were conceived to address challenges in the areas of shelter, community, education, health care, energy, and food and water.
"Imparting a sense of optimism at the possibility of creating a better world, 'Design for Social Impact' is not meant to be a total review of solutions," the museum said in a statement announcing the show. "Rather, it will provide a range of examples of design thinking being used to solve problems in innovative ways. In many cases, the projects actually solve multiple problems at one time. The featured projects were selected for their in-depth understanding of the users, which led to affordable, adaptable, and sustainable solutions."
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About 800 applicants to a master's program in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University on Monday received e-mails accepting them to the program. Then, seven hours later, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, they received a notice that the acceptances were a mistake. They were asked to confirm the revocation of the offers. "This error was the result of serious mistakes in our process for generating acceptance letters," said a statement from the university. "Once the error was discovered, the university moved quickly to notify affected applicants."
College received attention and praise for trying to limit tuition increases. Now, the college says the system will no longer work.
The University of Missouri at Kansas City announced Friday that Michael Song has resigned as a faculty member of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. "We have outstanding students and excellent programs that I helped create in the Bloch School but my presence has become an unnecessary distraction," said Song in a statement released by the university. Song was a central player in providing false information to the Princeton Review for rankings that have since been declared invalid.
President Obama's free community college proposal and college ratings initiatives promise to further the historic expansion of college access begun in 1965, when Congress created the Pell Grant Program, which pried open the doors of higher education to deserving but poor students.
But the administration's chosen means to the praiseworthy end of further expanding college access do not fundamentally challenge inequality in higher education; instead, they reinforce our two-tiered and unequal system. Federal policy instead should encourage academically qualified, lower-income students to matriculate to selective, four-year colleges. A monetary rewards system (a Race to the Top for higher education) or statutory mandates could advance that objective.
The current proposals are inadequate means to the laudable end of increasing access for the disadvantaged for three main reasons. First, money is not enough to ensure the success of low-income and first-generation college students (an often overlooked group that it is good to see included in the administration's proposals). A shortage of financial resources is an important part -- but just one dimension -- of the multifaceted challenges that hinder lower-income and first-generation students. These students not only face financial impediments, but also confront social and cultural challenges in higher education. They lack the parental support, social networks and human capital of wealthier students with college-educated parents. Students without family and social connections to the world of higher education often find it difficult to navigate collegiate life.
The majority of such students matriculate to two-year colleges. These campuses are literally and figuratively closer to home. At more selective institutions, the gulf between college and community life is greatest and the commitment to educating Pell Grant-eligible, first-generation students is less robust, judging from enrollment statistics. (Studies show that the most competitive colleges are the least likely to enroll Pell Grant students).
In effect, there are two vastly different systems of education: one for richer students from college-educated parents and another for poorer students from undereducated families.
In effect, there are two vastly different systems of education: one for richer students from college-educated parents and another for poorer students from undereducated families.
But most community colleges are not equipped to provide the academic and social supports necessary for the success of the capable but needy students drawn to them -- the second flaw in the administration's means to a worthy end. Reams of data have long documented the struggle of community colleges to deliver the quality education and additional support that students need. Teaching staffs at these colleges juggle heavy course loads and are responsible for hundreds of students, many of whom need remedial instruction in basic skills. Graduation rates at community colleges are meager. And, although many students enter community college with plans to transfer to four-year institutions, only one in five actually does.
In effect, there are two vastly different systems of education: one for richer students from college-educated parents and another for poorer students from undereducated families. Richer students overwhelmingly attend the nation's selective colleges and universities, where admissions officials have their pick of applicants.
Poorer, first-generation students overwhelmingly attend community colleges. Even some poorer students who are academically qualified for far more competitive institutions choose community colleges -- a phenomenon called "undermatching."
The administration's proposals will not end these inequities and do not aspire to end them. The community college proposal is instead a concession to the inevitability of a two-tiered, separate and unequal, system and will reinforce the status quo, including undermatching.
To be clear, there certainly is a role for a strong community college system in the educational marketplace. For some students, two-year colleges are an appropriate choice. And the federal government should strengthen these institutions by increasing funding to them across the board. But it can reform the community college system without also enacting policies that funnel academically able, poorer students into two-year rather than four-year colleges. In other words, the federal government could increase allocations to community colleges and also promote greater access for lower-income students. It need not tether the latter policy objective to the former.
Given the well-known limitations of two-year colleges, my recent proposal to increase college access for Pell Grant-eligible, first-generation students promoted greater outreach by selective, four-year institutions of higher education. Selective is not synonymous with Ivy League; it includes the most competitive private colleges, cash-starved state-supported universities and lesser-known liberal arts colleges that specialize in a student-centered educational experience.
The best selective institutions invest in the success of all admitted students. These colleges award generous financial aid packages and provide institutional support ranging from dedicated personnel to enrichment classes and social clubs to acculturate students to college life and facilitate academic progress. These are the colleges that produce the greatest return on investment and can change the life trajectories of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Federal policy should encourage academically qualified, lower-income students to matriculate to selective colleges through monetary rewards or statutory mandates (as I will explain below).
The third challenge in the administration's proposals pertains to its rating system, which is neither a necessary nor sufficient means to the government's ends. Ratings alone are unlikely to substantially increase college access for Pell Grant-eligible, first-generation students. Identifying the colleges that are the least successful at providing access is an important initial step, one that I have advocated. The proposed ratings will help diagnose the nature of the access problem for economically and educationally disadvantaged students. However, different incentives are necessary to spur corrective action.
The federal government can incentivize access for lower-income students at selective institutions in one of two ways. One type of incentive would work by conferring a reward on the institution for increasing access for the disadvantaged. The federal government could create a system of competitive grants and award additional federal dollars to colleges that enroll and provide effective support programs to a minimum percentage of Pell Grant-eligible and first-generation students. In other words, it could launch for higher education an analogue to the Race to the Top program established in 2009 to spur innovation in K-12 education.
The Obama administration reportedly plans to connect high ratings in its new system to additional federal funding. But judging from the tremendous pushback against the ratings system, its future is doubtful. And it is unnecessary to effect change. The government can promise more money to colleges that enroll a minimum number of low-income students without implementing a ratings plan.
A different kind of incentive program might work by imposing a penalty for noncompliance. Just as the nation once mandated race- and sex-based integration of colleges and universities, Congress and the Department of Education can compel the economic integration of America's college campuses. The government could mandate, for example, that colleges receiving Higher Education Act funds admit and fund a minimum percentage of low-income, first-generation students or risk losing federal funds.
This kind of mandate would function like Title VI of the Civil Rights Act or Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which require federally assisted programs to meet certain nondiscrimination requirements. Statutory mandates not only have been used to integrate colleges and secondary schools, but to increase the number of girls and women who participate in competitive sports programs, and, most recently, to mandate compliance with new substantive legal standards on campus sexual harassment and sexual assault.
Greater college access for qualified but needy students also could be achieved through federal statutory mandates. Whether this approach can serve as a viable avenue to reform is no doubt uncertain, however, given Congressional gridlock and ideological resistance to federal mandates.
Whatever else it does, the government should promote true equality of opportunity in higher education. It should neither prop up our two-tier system nor view the problem of unequal access to college as primarily a money problem. A reward or mandate system should be implemented to encourage federally assisted colleges -- especially cash-starved, selective, four-year public universities -- to educate greater numbers of qualified, disadvantaged students. Federal policy should not reinforce class stratification in higher education.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin is the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at Harvard University.
Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, plans to propose that public universities be required to freeze tuition in graduate and professional programs at whatever levels exist on July 1, the Associated Press reported. The measure is of concern to many university leaders who say that increases for medical and law school can be handled by students who have lucrative job prospects ahead.
Bryn Mawr College, a women's institution, announced Monday that it would admit certain groups of transgender students. Bryn Mawr's old policy did not ban transgender applicants, saying only that Bryn Mawr was a women's college and that "how an individual self-identifies in terms of gender, or any changes in self-identification while a student is enrolled here, are personal matters and not something the college tracks." The new policy explicitly welcomes some transgender applicants. The new policy states that the college's mission is "to educate women to be future leaders -- and in this mission context more clearly articulates the eligible undergraduate applicant pool. In addition to those applicants who were assigned female at birth, the applicant pool will be inclusive of transwomen and of intersex individuals who live and identify as women at the time of application. Intersex individuals who do not identify as male are also eligible for admission. Those assigned female at birth who have taken medical or legal steps to identify as male are not eligible for admission."
Bryn Mawr's move follows similar announcements from Mills, Mount Holyoke and Scripps Colleges.
Lani Guinier discusses her new critique of college admissions.
Audit finds U. of Missouri at Kansas City gave false information to Princeton Review to inflate rankings of business school -- and reveals e-mails in which officials say they faced donor pressure on ratings.
The enrollment of black freshmen at the University of Florida dropped 50 percent between 2007 and 2013, The Gainesville Sun reported. Part of the problem, university officials said, was the policy started by then Governor Jeb Bush, a Republican, to bar the university from considering race in admissions. In more recent years, however, university officials have found recruiting strategies that are permitted in their efforts to attract black students.
President Obama's ratings plan has struggled to find Republican support. He may have found some Sunday. In an interview with The New York Times, Rep. Paul Ryan, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee and a leading Republican voice in Congress, voiced skepticism on Obama's plan for two years of free community college. But Ryan said Republicans could work with the administration on efforts to make college costs and results more transparent. "The idea of opening a marketplace where people see what things cost and see the results" is a good one, Ryan told the Times. "It's a sector that's used to having automatic rate increases without having to compete for business."
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Created attachment 626861 [details] [diff] [review]
Bug 723350 uncovered a problem with CCWs not being collected if only one of the two affected compartments is GC'd.
This in turn caused the explosive memory usage described in bug 756549.
The attached patch fixes the problem by sweeping CCWs of all compartments, not just the currently collected ones.
try run: https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=7e351cd119ba
CCWs for strings don't keep alive their target? Weird.
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Thanks, Till. I'm glad this fixed the problem. Could you fix these small issues and post a rebased patch? Terrence changes JSCompartment::sweep yesterday and the cross-compartment wrappers are now swept a little differently. It won't affect what you're doing here, though.
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Please put this after the declaration of sweep.
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Maybe put a longer comment here. Something like "Remove dead wrappers from the table. We must sweep all compartments, since string entries in the crossCompartmentWrappers table are not marked during markCrossCompartmentWrappers."
Also, multi-line comments should have this format (with only one star on the first and last line):
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This function should go in jscompartment.cpp, right after JSCompartment::sweep. The sweepBaseShapeTable function is here because it's related to shapes, and shape stuff usually goes in jsscope.cpp.
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patch, v2
Thanks for the quick review, Bill. Attached is a rebased patch with your comments addressed.
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patch, v3
Whoops, wrong patch.
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patch, v3
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Thanks. The try results look good to me. I think this is ready.
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patch, v4, carrying billm's r+
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Still a few days before position players report to camp, but at this point, there's not much intrigue about their arrival. After signing Eric Chavez last night, the Yankees seem to have their position players set for this season. At least, they seem to have their ideal position players in place.
Raul Ibanez has moved into the regular DH spot (against right-handers), and Chavez is joining a bench of Andruw Jones, Eduardo Nunez and Francisco Cervelli. Assuming everyone stays healthy, it could be tough for anyone else to crack this roster. Guess we'll have to see whether Russell Branyan, Bill Hall or Chris Dickerson can make those choices a little more difficult. Same for Jorge Vazquez, Ramiro Pena and Justin Maxwell.
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Audi is reportedly hard at work with their new Q1 crossover, to compete with the BMW X1. With a higher ground clearance, as well as a more muscular appearance and a possible 5-door layout.
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Still lacking a partner for this since Marysson dropped out. I'm not all that bothered about finishing the map but it's looking OK (for a start) and I don't want to waste it. Anyone have a similar style to me and want to team up to finish this?
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That's not necessary Steve. If you're interested and think we can gel that's good enough for me.
I will email you the download link to what we have so far as well as some notes about our level plan.
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Kitty, that is pretty! The only experience with hypericum is Hypericum
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Ceres, Savannah Supreme looks really nice.
We got a Hydrangea Endless Summer for the Display Gardens. For a year or 2
you could read all about it but couldn't get one, but suddenly it is
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I was intertested in your Hypericum because our MG nursery recently received
25 of Hypericum moseranum 'Tri-Color'. This is a really cute and colorful
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> << Ceres: You'll be happy to know that as of now, my coleus are all
> snuggled under their cones and all my containers are safely inside the
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> Melody, I left my plants in all day to save some work and to keep them
> It was cool today but nice to work outdoors. I planted my 'Endless
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> He is very into hostas and this hosta is beautiful but did not have some
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> Also got my order from Song Sparrow but was so disappointed the
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i don't see anyting poppin off. Even if DipShits show up, they ain't doing shit. Yayo isn't gonna be there so I don't see anything dumb happening.
^^ You really think that Yayo ain't going to be there… What about 50?… He gotta show up, since he's president of Buck's label…
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Aint shit going to happen @ that Buck party I bet security will be tight as fuck after yayo smacked ya boy up.
I don't know about yayo I'm sittin here listen to this buck interview and he said he really doesn't respect people that put thier hands on kids. This was after ol girl asked him about the situation.
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lol!! He does sound a little sus on that freestyle that was posted. That pic is gay as fukk. I hope its fake.
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Yo, the first season Prison Break was good but after that every episode has been dragging along the story. There have also been alot of time fillers that don't advance the plot at all. The director tried to put too many plot twists in season 2, like people don't already know to expect the unexpected in a show like that. I really only fuck with the Wire though, but I guess Prison Break is aight for now since the Wire don't resume till 08′.
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Girl, Interruptedby Susanna Kaysen
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clienteleSylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charlesas for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.
Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
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"Tough-minded . . . darkly comic . . . written with indelible clarity."Newsweek
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Toward a Topography of the Parallel Universe
People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy.
And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the cnp-pled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.
My roommate Georgina came in swiftly and totally, dur-ing her junior year at Vassar. She was in a theater watching a movie when a tidal wave of blackness broke over her head. The entire world was obliterated--for a few minutes. She knew she had gone crazy. She looked around the theater to see if it had happened to everyone, but all the other people were engrossed in the movie. She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head.
And after that? I asked her.
A lot of darkness, she said.
But most people pass over incrementally, making a series of perforations in the membrane between here and there until an opening exists. And who can resist an opening? In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down1 a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest1 and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks; faces, flowers.
These are facts you find out later,though.
Another odd feature of the parallel universe is that al-though it is invisible from this side, once you are in it you can easily see the world you came from. Sometimes the world you came from looks huge and menacing, quivering like a vast pile of jelly1 at other times it is miniaturized and alluring, a-spin and shining in its orbit. Either way, it can't be discounted.
Every window on Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
The Taxi
"You have a pimple," said the doctor.
I'd hoped nobody would notice.
"You've been picking it," he went on.
When I'd woken that morning--early, so as to get to this appointment--the pimple had reached the stage of hard expectancy in which it begs to be picked. It was yearning for release. Freeing it from its little white dome, pressing until the blood ran, I felt a sense of accomplishment: I'd done all that could be done for this pimple.
"You've been picking at yourself," the doctor said.
I nodded. He was going to keep talking about it until I agreed with him, so I nodded.
"Have a boyfriend?" he asked.
I nodded to this too.
'Trouble with the boyfriend?" It wasn't a question, actu-ally1 he was already nodding for me. "Picking at yourself," he repeated. He popped out from behind his desk and lunged toward me. He was a taut fat man, tight-bellied and dark.
"You need a rest," he announced.
I did need a rest, particularly since I'd gotten up so early that morning in order to see this doctor, who lived out in the suburbs. I'd changed trains twice. And I would have to retrace my steps to get to my job. Just thinking of it made me tired.
"Don't you think?" He was still standing in front of me. "Don't you think you need a rest?
"Yes," I said.
He strode off to the adjacent room, where I could hear him talking on the phone.
I have thought often of the next ten minutes--my last ten minutes. I had the impulse, once, to get up and leave through the door I'd entered, to walk the several blocks to the trolley stop and wait for the train that would take me back to my troublesome boyfriend, my job at the kitchen store. But I was too tired.
He strutted back into the room, busy, pleased with himself.
"I've got a bed for you," he said. "It'll be a rest. Just for a couple of weeks, okay?" He sounded conciliatory, or plead-ing, and I was afraid.
"I'll go Friday," I said. It was Tuesday, maybe by Friday I wouldn't want to go.
He bore down on me with his belly. "No. You go now.
I thought this was unreasonable. "I have a lunch date," I said.
"Forget it," he said. "You aren't going to lunch. You're going to the hospital." He looked triumphant.
It was very quiet out in the suburbs before eight in the morning. And neither of us had anything more to say. I heard the taxi pulling up in the doctor's driveway.
He took me by the elbow--pinched me between his large stout fingers--and steered me outside. Keeping hold of my arm, he opened the back door of the taxi and pushed me in. His big head was in the backseat with me for a moment. Then he slammed the door shut.
The driver rolled his window down halfway.
"Where to?"
Coatless in the chilly morning, planted on his sturdy legs in his driveway, the doctor lifted one arm to point at me.
'Take her to McLean," he said, "and don't let her out till you get there."
I let my head fall back against the seat and shut my eyes. I was glad to be riding in a taxi instead of having to wait for the train.
This person is (pick one):
1. on a perilous journey from which we can learn much when he or she returns,
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Velocity vs. Viscosity
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast.
I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.
There are a lot of names: depression, catatonia, mania, anxiety, agitation. They don't tell you much.
The predominant quality of the slow form is viscosity.
Experience is thick. Perceptions are thickened and dulled. Time is slow, dripping slowly through the clogged filter of thickened perception. The body temperature is low. The pulse is sluggish. The immune system is half-asleep. The organism is torpid and brackish. Even the reflexes are di-minished, as if the lower leg couldn't be bothered to jerk itself out of its stupor when the knee is tapped.
Viscosity occurs on a cellular level. And so does velocity.
In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber with a mind of its own, a means of knowing and commenting on its own behavior. There is too much perception, and beyond the plethora of perceptions, a plethora of thoughts about the perceptions and about the fact of having perceptions. Digestion could kill you! What I mean is the unceasing awareness of the processes of digestion could exhaust you to death. And digestion is just an involuntary sideline to thinking, which is where the real trouble begins.
Take a thought--anything1 it doesn't matter. I'm tired of sitting here in front of the nursing station: a perfectly rea-sonable thought. Here's what velocity does to it.
First, break down the sentence: I'm tired--well, are you really tired, exactly? Is that like sleepy? You have to check all your body parts for sleepiness, and while you're doing that, there's a bombardment of images of sleepiness, along these lines: head falling onto pillow, head hitting pillow, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Little Nemo rubbing sleep from his eyes, a sea monster. Uh-oh, a sea monster. If you're lucky, you can avoid the sea monster and stick with sleep-iness. Back to the pillow, memories of having mumps at age five, sensation of swollen cheeks on pillows and pain on salivation--stop. Go back to sleepiness.
But the salivation notion is too alluring, and now there's an excursion into the mouth. You've been here before and it's bad. It's the tongue: Once you think of the tongue it becomes an intrusion. Why is the tongue so large? Why is it scratchy on the sides? Is that a vitamin deficiency? Could you remove the tongue? Wouldn't your mouth be less both-ersome without it? There'd be more room in there. The tongue, now, every cell of the tongue, is enormous. It's a vast foreign object in your mouth.
Trying to diminish the size of your tongue, you focus your attention on its components: tip, smooth, back, bumpy, sides, scratchy, as noted earlier (vitamin defi-ciency), roots--trouble. There are roots to the tongue. You've seen them, and if you put your finger in your mouth you can feel them, but you can't feel them with the tongue. It's a paradox.
Paradox. The tortoise and the hare. Achilles and the what? The tortoise? The tendon? The tongue?
Back to tongue. While you weren't thinking of it, it got a little smaller. But thinking of it makes it big again. Why is it scratchy on the sides? Is that a vitamin deficiency? You've thought these thoughts already, but now these thoughts have been stuck onto your tongue. They adhere to the existence of your tongue.
All of that took less than a minute, and there's still the rest of the sentence to figure out. And all you wanted, really, was to decide whether or not to stand up.
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
Something common to both is repetitive thought. Expe-riences seem prerecorded, stylized. Particular patterns of thought get attached to particular movements or activities, and before you know it, it's impossible to approach that movement or activity without dislodging an avalanche of prethought thoughts.
A lethargic avalanche of synthetic thought can take days to fall. Part of the mute paralysis of viscosity comes from knowing every detail of what's ahead and having to wait for its arrival. Here comes the I'm-no-good thought. That takes care of today. All day the insistent dripping of I'm no good. The next thought, the next day, is I'm the Angel of Death. This thought has a glittering expanse of panic behind it, which is unreachable. Viscosity flattens the effervescence of panic.
These thoughts have no meaning. They are idiot mantras that exist in a prearranged cycle: I'm no good, I'm the Angel of Death, I'm stupid, I can't do anything. Thinking the first thought triggers the whole circuit. It's like the flu: first a sore throat, then, inevitably, a stuffy nose and a cough.
Once, these thoughts must have had a meaning. They must have meant what they said. But repetition has blunted them. They have become background music, a Muzak med-ley of self-hatred themes.
Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or the other would assert itself, rush or dribble through me, and pass on.
Pass on to where? Back into my cells to lurk like a virus waiting for the next opportunity? Out into the ether of the world to wait for the circumstances that would provoke its reappearance? Endogenous or exogenous, nature or nur-ture--it's the great mystery of mental illness.
Meet the Author
Susanna Kaysen has written the novels Asa, As I Knew Him and Far Afield and the memoirs Girl, Interrupted and The Camera My Mother Gave Me. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
More than 2 decades ago, someone close to me did something that I viewed as a betrayal. That action left an indelible mark that has yet to heal. Actually, being honest, I don't think it ever will and I'm not sure I want it to. It has become a companion to me, a force on its own.
I have no stomach for dishonesty, unethical behavior, and hypocrisy. A man didn't like something I wrote about the industry in which he worked - and decided to demand that I resign from the Board of the synagogue. There was no connection - just a disgusting power play on his part and the hypocrisy of the Board that feared his power. Did I mention I hate silence in the face of injustice as well?
Two former employees went off to form their own company - in part by breaking agreements and taking at least one of my clients and in part by deleting 80-90 GB of client files on my computers. Did I mention that I hate dishonesty and unethical behavior?
We are, ultimately, a product of our experiences in life and I carry these with me - struggling not to let the anger win. Usually, it doesn't. The synagogue where I once went has lost many valuable people - all those who see what has been done and refuse to be a part of it. That isn't what worship is about. One of those employees developed some serious illnesses and has been living with pain almost from the time she left my employ.
And on it goes. In my personal life and in my "public" life here, I do not stomach hypocrisy. This morning, there was a quote from someone who called him/herself "Norway" - and I choked on the anger as I responded. Norway is the farthest thing from the caring, egalitarian society it wants you to believe it is. Sure, they sent some money to Haiti - better than most countries - but it was OUR team that got there and saved lives, OUR doctors, OUR rescue workers who risked their lives.
For the earthquake in Turkey, the tsunami in the Far East - it was our PEOPLE while it was your MONEY, Norway. And while this person dares to question Israel - once again throwing around the much abused and inaccurate term "apartheid" - it is simple to prove Norway wrong. We have sent the children of immigrants to Eurovision (as if that is some intelligent way to measure the worth of a country, for God's sake???) - from Yemen, Morocco, the United States. From Russia, Spain, and Libya and Tunisia. On and on, the list of the countries from which our contestants have come is so long and Norway dares to take pride because ONE of their contestants came from Morocco?
Norway - a heck of a place. As far back as in the year 1000, the Norwegian king, Olav den Hellige, forbade everyone who was not Christian to live in Norway. In 1814, Norway acquired its first constitution. This document stated that the official state religion was Lutheran Protestantism and that Jews and Jesuits were forbidden from entering the kingdom. It took them over 50 years to manage to get that clause out and another 40+ before Jews actually established a community.
In 1940, the Germans occupied Norway. Norwegian newspapers and media were full of anti-Semitic propaganda and the Norwegian government was taken over by Nazis. In 1942, 750 Jews were deported to Auschwitz (of a population of approximately 2,000 Jews). Of these, only 25 survived. The rest of Norway's Jews managed to escape to Sweden, where they lived as refugees until the end of the war. Norway remains a bastion of anti-Semitism and worst of all, it does so with a pride and arrogance that devastates anyone willing to hope for anything better. Hypocrites, I want to cry out.
And then there is Syria - daily, people are dying there, being murdered by their government - but the UN takes the time to warn Israel, to express its concern - while Assad is butchering his own people in the lovely tradition of his father.
And while I'm in complaining mode - did you notice that the new Flame virus that has hit Iran's computer systems is getting more attention than Iran's threat to wipe Israel off the face of the earth? Have you noticed that the UN issued a warning against the virus - within a day of its being announced...and yet still has not done much to stop Iran's mad dash for nukes?
And on and on...I'm trying to find my balance today, trying to stop the outside from reaching so deeply into the inside. The owner of my office building FINALLY cleaned the windows - after our requesting this for more than 3 years (the windows don't open or we would have done it ourselves) - and so my office now has beautiful views again - the colors are just so amazing. The sun is so bright; the tree below my window so green. The building across the street is golden; the field beyond it full of swaying growth.
I'm trying to remember that hypocrisy has always existed and always will and nothing they say or do can change who I am, where I choose to live my life. Things won't really change - with the next natural disaster, Israel will send people to help and Norway will continue to sit back and preach about how good their society is...unless, of course, you happen to be a Jew in Norway. But as there are only about 1,200 Jews living in Norway as of 2010 (0.05% of the population), I guess we Jews are pretty smart after all.
9 comments:
- Batya said...
Paula, I really can relate to what you wrote. There are things I just can't forget or forgive. Being straight and honest were the mitzvot my parents raised us with. Mehadrin in business and derech eretz should be everyone's priority.
- May 30, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Norway puzzles me. I've never been there, nor do I plan to visit. I admit that as a non-Jew, non-Israeli, and a non-Norwegian, I find their anti-Semitic view problematic. It seems they have not mitigated any of their cultural bias from the 1930's (actually much earlier, but I'm drawing a distinction about Nazism here).
That raises the question -- why are Norwegians (as a state) so anti-Semitic? Is it ignorance of the Jews and their contributions to the world? Is there some historical connection to the Prophet Mohammed which might explain this hatred of Israel? Do they still subscribe to Hitler's Aryan Race theory and count themselves into the Master Race?
I just can't imagine a whole nation possessed by evil feelings towards another ethnicity -- not in the 21st century.... I mean, Americans (as a whole) don't see blacks as inferior anymore. They don't think of blacks or Chinese as chattel anymore. Why do Norwegians fall prey to this sort of asinine prejudice? What am I missing? The relative isolation of their country, perhaps? Am I missing something culturally, or is Norway just the devil's playground?
- May 30, 2012 at 5:39 PM
When I said that Israel as an apartheid country did I also say that Norway is a perfect country with no problems?
Don´t you think its possible to observe problems in your own country AND in other countries?
You defend Israel´s crimes and problems by pointing out other countries problems. Uhm... ?!
If Norway has something to be ashamed of today it is the islamophobia that is rising and that created a monster named Anders Behring Breivik.
Of course antisemitism is awful and shameful, in any country. Racism and hatred among the people of the earth exists all over the world and has to be stopped.
But the bad sides of Norway doesnt make Israel a good country!
It is interesting how you really trash Norway when someone with the alias "Norway" criticize your beloved Israel.
Im not norwegian, Im from a country in the south. Won´t tell you what country because thats not what we are discussing here. There are many problems in my country, its not perfect. No country is.
So to respond to this you might have to dig up all bad things you ever can find on the rest of the world in your pathetic attempt to defend israeli war crimes.
No country is perfect, especially not Israel.
Please, be brave enough to publish this AND your answers.
- May 30, 2012 at 8:59 PM
I´m sorry norwegians, I signed my comment with "Norway" and now Norway is "the devil's playground"!
Sorry Norway... but maybe this says a lot about how desperate Israelis and their supporters are.
No, I understand Paula, you wont publish this as it makes you look stupid. As long as you read it Im happy.
- May 30, 2012 at 9:10 PM
What separates us from Virginian Hillbillies is that we tend to move on from ancient grudges - this is how bloodfeuds are created.
I judge Norway and Europe for its current antisemitism, not its past. The past can't be fixed, but there is still hope for the present and the future. However, that is unlikely to change if we remain fixated on the actions of dead generations.
I don't forget the past, I learn from it, but I don't bring it up in every conversation because it has no bearing on the future. The only reason to bring up the past is to illicit a strong emotional response, which in my opinion has no practical application.
Also, pointing out to someone and saying you are behaving like an antisemite is a lot more relevant than saying your grandparents were antisemites so you should shut up.
- May 31, 2012 at 2:50 PM
- A Soldier's Mother said...
Yehoshua - I think there is a difference between "moving on" and forgetting. It isn't like Norway has moved away from its anti-Semitic track record - google "Norway anti-semitic" and you'll come up with over 3 million hits; Wikipedia has at least two separate pages dedicated to it. I don't see by any means how this is in the past. If you followed this thread, you'll see this post was prompted by a comment made under the name Norway, thus the little tour down history lane. My final comment is a simple quote - those who forget the past are condemned to relive it. There might be a reason to forget, if Norway didn't continue its proud adherence to all things related to hating Israel (and Jews).
- May 31, 2012 at 5:46 PM
- A Soldier's Mother said...
By the way /Norway - you never responded to the point. You said when Israel sends a certain type of person (Moroccan descent) to Eurovision...and I responded with a long list of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds. So, your original comment has been proven wrong...as easily as the rest. I don't mind publishing most comments - inaccurate or obnoxious though they be. Daring me or calling me stupid won't change my position on publishing it or not. In this case, I publish it because anyone willing to use Google can easily and quickly prove your statements false.
- May 31, 2012 at 5:49 PM
I never said we should forget. I said we should move on. When Norway posted his comments, you brought up Norway's past instead of focusing on the very relevant present. What happended in 1940 is not relevant to 2012. What is happening in 2012 is what is relevant for 2012.
You are holding modern day Norwegians responsible for their ancestors when you can instead choose to hold them responsible for their own actions.
When reading your article, I can reach two conclusions - a. the Norwegians have a horrible past. and b. The Norwegians must be fine because they have not done anything bad since 1940. If you want to prove Norwegian hypocrisy, bring examples of how today Norway is anti-semitic instead of dredging up ancient history.
My two cents.
- May 31, 2012 at 6:37 PM
HAHAHAH! Where are the links I sent you about the racism in Israel against african immigrants?
Not so brave after all.
Lets pretend it doesn´t exist.
Haha my gd. SHAME ON ISRAEL!
- May 31, 2012 at 9:27 PM
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