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Deb,
You're one wild chick. I think it's the wry smile that lurks beneath your words. Or maybe just the sense you convey -- that you've gotten away with "it," perhaps too often. Alas, I'm hooked. Do it again, OK?
--jcd
07/16 |
I listened to your piece on the nerve cd, both well written and well read, and after this piece yer easily my favorite writer on nerve, next to lisa carver. What I loved is your perspective as part nerd & part layman -- calling the READY screen "demented" and commenting on the noiseless room were suuuuch exciting touches. As part poet and part dork myself, the eerie simple and ultimately FORCEFUL world of math and technology (forceful because it works one way and one way only, no silly willynilly "interpretations" or "impressionism") turns me on the way a simple circle does. It involves imagination, but it doesn't have time for literary conceits -- it hums quietly and with scary potential. Frankly, I am totally forlorn that this archaic HAL-type appeal is gone as computers become more for dummies, streamlined to have universal graphic appeal. Feh! When i hear about the first computer being as big as the room, spilling cables everywhere, nothing turns me on more. Bravo on your personal view of this indeed cliche topic -- it is what makes this interesting. And your chat dialogue was alternately very funny and very heated, though I'd hate to think you REALLY believe in practice it was sexier just having random nerds' brains, which in my opinion would be *much* more disappointing than having their bodies. I vizualize your boyfriend as a true geek, not one of the all-too-common vaguely gothic vaguely Trekkie people the net is usually populated by, and you as the interloper, seeing all sorts of dirty subtexts, being turned on by your fumbling interactions with the sci-fi world.
--bleh
08/05 |
Just checking out your system.
--KTR
07/20 |
Beautiful, poetic, clean, and oh how inspiring..
--eh
06/14 |
Fantastic to read about such a thing. Not just the quick pace in which it is written...but the story itself. So many people were into the not-quite world-wide web back then, and it was as simple as the one big service, COMPUSERVE. I would sit for hours at night and watch all the people type to each other. Such another wonderful and horrible view of the voyeur. You know that guy at the party who would just sit and drink and watch as people paired off and went upstairs or left the party altogether? That was me, and it was enough. I was young and loved watching what I shouldn't have and listening in on things that people normally kept private. Some were liars and it was a gag, others were lonely and it wasnt' serious enough. For me it was a party I'd crashed and no one cared.
--Lb
05/30 |
I don't think that've ever before read something so deep and unnerving. Your a wonderful writer, and I would like to read more of your compositions. I think the online world needs more stable minds like yourself.
--EE
05/29 |
incredible style........i could read you all day long
--sgs
04/27 |
"It was like that moment you rub a lamp and a genie appears, the stuff of jokes and dreams. Welcome to Compuserve."
No, no, no! GEnie was a *whole other service*!
It's a silly, irrelevant joke, but someone had to say it.
Seriously, my first cybersex encounter was in the classic days of C-64s and 300 baud modems. I was on a number of local BBSes, one of which was a sort of protoMUD called "Land of Genesis". My character started flirting with someone else's character. We moved it to personal email, and it got pretty hot. Later, we met at a "Land of Genesis" party, and I was a little disappointed that nothing happened. She had a boyfriend, granted, but I was expecting at least a little smoldering-look action. *sigh*
Internet? When I was your age we had 300 baud modems and we liked it! we liked it fine!
--MHBK
03/13 |
Way to go!! If you change the period the article could easily have been about me. My first time was a total surprise ... was not looking but it found me. Bigtime! This is head fucking taken to the extreem.
--MPC
03/12 |
Good piece of writing, except for the technical details ... Where did you get the great picture of the eternally great C64?
--D'H
02/23 |
I loved this essay! It is so full of textures; I adore the way it reaches through the depths of darkness and finds wet, sticky heat. I liked the format as well, it made me feel a part of that forbidden newness. There is humor and eros in the mysteries of technology, especially for the un-initiated among us. This story gives history to all the Cyber-sexy relationships that we forge here on Nerve. It helps create community. Plus,it made me giggle, and notice my heart beating in my chest. . .It made me notice my own anticipation for my next sexual romp through the language of desire.
--lbf
02/21 |
ok blais .lis ca!
--mv
02/21 |
I love the way this piece looks... the blue screen, the huge, white type. Nostalgia for technology is so rich, and Margolin satisfies. (I have a picture on my desk at work of me, with feathered hair, playing with a Merlin.) I love the way Margolin writes, how she teases out the beauty in what we desire... gadgets, the mind, silence. This is a beautiful, deeply funny, and erotic piece.
--kag
02/21 |
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