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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

“By middle/high school, the average student has learned how normal people talk. The resulting language is underwhelming and predictable - the safe regurgitations of a thoroughly socialized consciousness.” https://t.co/5evo3vYThl https://t.co/qfpwv2A94k

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

children are geniuses and artists before we beat it out of them https://t.co/c6kFV5CFXN

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

“While the average older student’s poems are heavy with allegiance to a limited view of reality, the average younger writer’s vision of the world is nimble and surprising - bizarre, yet true.”

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Creativity dies in school and other insular prison-like contexts https://t.co/0rmIbpvE0c

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 7 years ago

To me, school today is like medicine before people learned about germ theory and hand-washing. Creative souls die every day and most people shrug the way they must’ve when women and children used to die in childbirth. Leaves from the vine... https://t.co/EnrzXNXgt1

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

We seek out expressive pursuits because expression is repressed in everyday life https://t.co/VNujBesDsM

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Funny thought I had recently was that both yoga and musical theatre are each in their own way just manufactured contexts where it’s acceptable for humans to be more expressive than “normal”

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2/21/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/xeturDKxJy

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2/23/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/U0KsltXA5c

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2/23/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

❤️ https://t.co/Akf7HeQtm1

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11/28/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

“this tastes unlucky to me” ❤️ https://t.co/bZ77G42iRh

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1/22/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

names of cheeses https://t.co/bAWWI16glY

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1/22/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

falsifier! https://t.co/RMkY5BWNLg

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1/22/2021

ian hines@imhinesmi• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Trying to get the ability to see originally back is a struggle. Worth practicing though, I think.

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ian hines@imhinesmi• over 6 years ago

Replying to @imhinesmi

@visakanv I wonder how much reading books actually hurts this ability. I know I read a lot as a child (a book every day or two) and I don't recall ever being good at poetry.

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