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Ieva Melgalve
Ieva Melgalve
Riga
Member since: Nov, 2008
Last login: 07/31/2009
Last update : 01/08/2009
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  • I started out at early age, identified myself as a "writer" when I was 12. At age of 14, I wrote and published a short essay which included some borderline expressions and created quite an uproar in my home country. I have been struggling with the after-effects (both positive and negative) of this reckless act ever since.

    When I was 18, my short story and short plays book was published. Also, several of my plays have been staged, most notably "Metal" which was staged at 2005.

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  • Thursday Prompt: The Ultimate Illusion

    January 8, 2009

    • Well.I'm reallyreallyreally tired but just in case anybody's looking forward to Thursday prompts - here it goes.The Ultimate Illusion. For me, it's the "ego", the ultimate illusion that when I'm using the word "I", it actually means something instead of being a placeholder for initial emptiness. I more or less believe in physical world and genes and stuff, but I do not believe ...
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  • Wordle: a fun web application

    January 5, 2009

    • I came upon this site, "Wordle", and fed my poem to it, and after a few "Randomizations" it turned out this beautifully scrambled result. (Click on the image for larger resolution.)Try it out. You can basically feed any text piece to this program, to gain another insight in it - or simply play and have fun. Just be careful with saving, you probably don't wanna save the names ...
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  • Three women, interview snapshots

    January 4, 2009

    • This weekend, I did something I'm usually too lazy to do: read three interviews with women, and they were positive ones, you know, encouraging and "we are not ALL gonna die" toned, perhaps a coincidence, perhaps a tendency our country has developed as a soothing response to overall gloominess (as I said before, I can't actually relate to that, at least not yet).The first was an ...
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  • I feel better with crisis

    January 4, 2009

    • I feel better with crisis than without it.First of all, there isn't much of a crisis anyways; the stress levels at my job and at my husband's job are only a tad higher than usually and kids don't feel that at all. The increased VAT tax that had oh so many near-hysterical comments really hits in only at bookstores (where the added value is 16% instead of overall 3%). Since we have no big savings ...
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  • Thursday Prompt: I Paved The Road To Hell

    January 1, 2009

    • It's January 1st, and I'm not gonna give you some trick question that requires to re-read "The Golden Bough" to answer (thank you Wen Scott for doing the prompts!). Instead, I'll just make you feel awful about all the good New Year's resolutions you are making right now.So Thursday prompt is "I Paved The Road To Hell", and, well, if you can't remember any occasion when you ...
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Comments I've Written

  • Well, other people's egos

    Well, other people's egos can exist, for all I care ;) I suspect that my "ego" was invented just for this purpose, to make me predictable and easier to deal with. It's a social thing.

  • sorry for getting to this so late,

    I think that you got it with the "Unless a person has experienced a state of non-ego that person cannot know what lies beyond his or her ego."

  • Another option:

    Maybe we have that need to "save others from themselves" not because we're inherently good or something, but because we are scared to realize how different other people are.

  • P.S. O hai!

    P.S.

    O hai!

  • Unconvinced :)

    By your definition, even an illusion in its purest form is not an illusion because it exists as a perception in one's mind, it can be described, and it has an effect on one's mind too.

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