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YouTube: 'Hyde School Campus Tour'
Anonymous:
This is a masterpiece! Perfectly captures that sense of dread I felt walking up to the mansion for seminars, classes etc. I remember the hill being longer, though. Campus looks good--they must be spending big $$. Wasn't the student union -- purple??
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---This is a masterpiece! Perfectly captures that sense of dread I felt walking up to the mansion for seminars, classes etc. I remember the hill being longer, though. Campus looks good--they must be spending big $$. Wasn't the student union -- purple??
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Yeah, I totally agree about the dread. I actually watched it 3-4 times last night. Instead of getting less potent for me, it actually got more so. Maybe it was that glass of Portugese rotgut I was drinking. By the third time, there were tears coming out of my eyes, remembering the horror, the dread, the hopeless desperation of trying to live your life according to those absolutes, and never quite making it up to their standards.
In retrospect, it is quite clear, that for the most part, they never met those standards either, and that most of the kids probably had morals and so-called character far in excess of the faculty's!
Moreover, they were absolutely BLIND to the inner struggles we had; they were so busy applying the one size fits all strategy that they didn't even bother to find out who we actually were. Why should they bother? It's not like they had time, let alone energy after all those emotionally draining seminars, and school meetings, the constant evaluations in class, in sports, performing arts, even in the dorms... And anyway, it was supposed to work one size fits all cuz these were inherent truths that applied to the whole of the human race. Or so Joe said.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---how do you enbedded the videos in the post?
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Sorry I neglected this 'till now. I knew there was something I was forgetting...
YouTube, and I think Google as well, provide the whole code for embedding in one of those little boxes inside that larger box on the right hand side with the clip particulars in it. You just copy and paste that whole thing onto your post in one piece (it's large and will wrap around several lines). If you want to check to make sure you got it all and that it works, hit 'preview' instead of 'submit' and your post will show up above your editing box with the all the code taking effect as if it had been posted. You can then scroll back down and edit as many times as need be and preview as many times as need be until you're happy with it and then 'submit.'
Also, if you want to check to see what that kind of code generally looks like, go to a post that has an embedded clip and hit 'quote reply.' That post will then be dumped into your editing box in its entirety, with all coded items written out in code form. Just hit your browser back button or one of the forum links to get out of posting unless that's what you really want.
BTW, you don't need to spell out the Captchas each time you 'preview.' You probably already know that, not to mention about 90% of the above, but I just told you anyway cuz I'm a little OCD.
Anonymous:
--- Code: ---there were tears coming out of my eyes, remembering the horror, the dread, the hopeless desperation of trying to live your life according to those absolutes, and never quite making it up to their standards
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I have walked it a many of times since my departure in '77. I used to take the kids to hermit's island. I would stop in and walk around. I have gone to some official functions. Had some chats. A couple of brief ones with Joe. I had breakfast with Joe one morning. That man either has a drinking problem or Parkinson's. Watching him try to get the scrambled eggs into his mouth was a trip. But yeah the place leaves an indelible mark on your life. For some people like me it is a mixed bag. I really fell into a funny nitch when I was there. I never had any allusions that my character was growing. Some one shared with me the senior vote process and how they we voted off the island. This is some beside Mike. How fucked is that? I mean really? I don't have the time to describe the hypocrisies that went on in that room. Two weeks later I was smoking dope in a house in Waterville with half the guys in that room that were passing judgment on character. And one of those fuckers stole my brother's army field jacket that he wore in the Cambodia invasion with the 7/17 cav. Character my ass.
I never fit in with the leadership crowd, I was never a jock and no one , thank God, no one on the faculty ever took an interest in me so no one ever fucked with my head the way some kids got their heads fucked with. I was not the best looking piece of queer bait so my ass emerged in its virginal state too.
Joe and Ed are reoccurring stock characters in my dreams. But thanks to RSE I now live in a reality where they are both my towel boys. Just kidding about the RSE part.
But back to the point, yeah I have stood in the room where Jim Searles, Paul Hurd and Sabina's boy friend (Bob) did my interview, tag team. Three men against one scrawny confused boy. They were tough guys. It gets some stuff churning inside you. 30 years later I have it beat. I can make Joe melt in my dreams and Ed is a clown figure kind of like the rooster in Merry Melodies Cartoons. "Boy listen when I am talking at ya"
The thing that I find disturbing is that after all these years it seems to be the same shit, same shovel, same lack of self examination same lack of honesty. What was it that Jesus said "if you are dishonest in small things, you will be dishonest in the large?" Well if they have to dissemble about a reunion weekend what are they going to do when the chips are down?
Anonymous:
BTW folks, this is completely cute and innocent "tour" with absolutely nothing untoward or negative about this school in here. I hope no one gets in trouble for it. Seems benign.
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