{"id":392,"date":"2009-04-22T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2009\/04\/22\/1999\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:08:00","slug":"1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2009\/04\/22\/1999\/","title":{"rendered":"1999"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are, all of us, alone<\/span>
Though not uncommon,<\/span>
In our singularity.<\/span>
Touching<\/span>
We become tangent to<\/span>
Cirles of common experience<\/span>
Co-incident,<\/span>
Defining of collective tangency<\/span>
Circles<\/span>
Reciprocal in their subtle<\/span>
Redefinition of us.<\/span>
In tangency<\/span>
We are never less alone,<\/span>
But no longer<\/span>
Only.<\/span>
\u2014Gene Mattingly<\/p>\n

I’ve been looking for this poem for exactly ten years, after I found it in my geometry book in high school. Wow, has it really been that long? I was fifteen and I practically owned two of the whiteboards in my classroom. Every day I’d write a quote on one of them, and the other one I simply used to draw whenever I pleased. I used to draw cartoons of my friends, from which I planned to make a series called ‘The Zoo’. I don’t know where the name came from, it simply did. One of my friends still talks about it with me.<\/p>\n

I was already Olavia Kite back then. When I came up with the name I thought I’d use it for a character in a story, but I liked it so much that I decided to keep it for myself. Olavia Kite. The Beatles reference is obvious. My parents gave me a calligraphy pen with the pseudonym engraved on it for my fifteenth birthday. They knew it would stick forever.<\/p>\n

That was the year I travelled out of the country for the first time. Chicago shined with a splendor that made me promise myself I’d go back to see it closely\u2014and I did, three years later. I didn’t realize back then that my dreams tend to come true, so I wished away.<\/p>\n

1999 was also the year Clown committed suicide. He had a deep voice, I still can remember it pretty clearly, even though his face has faded. He was one of those online acquaintances who marked my teenage years. I may have been isolated when younger, but I never was completely alone. I guess the same thing applies now that I’ve embraced Tsukuba solitude.<\/p>\n

Ten years have passed, and memories flow like water from a broken pipe. I can’t even organize them, all soaked in reminiscence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are, all of us, aloneThough not uncommon,In our singularity.TouchingWe become tangent toCirles of common experienceCo-incident,Defining of collective tangencyCirclesReciprocal in their subtleRedefinition of us.In tangencyWe are never less alone,But no longerOnly.\u2014Gene Mattingly I’ve been looking for this poem for exactly ten years, after I found it in my geometry book in high school. Wow, has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}