<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036414420963948683</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:47:25.370-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The What</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://carmengoman.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9036414420963948683/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://carmengoman.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>carmengoman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15485514469769927975</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036414420963948683.post-7806004806710905038</id><published>2008-10-22T00:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T00:52:50.132-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chapter ½, Why</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"&gt;I have too much damn pride, that’s the problem. If you ever want to know a good definition of pride, ask me and I’ll tell you. In fact, I don’t even have to tell you, you’ll just know once you get through this story. That is, if I finish it, because part of the problem is, I never stick to things. I never stick to anything. I start hating everything eventually. I’ll probably start to hate writing this story too, so I don’t know if I’ll end up finishing it. In fact, I already sort of do hate it: it reminds me of my old journals, and I used to burn them every so often. Nothing matters anymore, though, not even my pride. All I have left to do now is to write and look back one last time, like a soldier taking one last morbid peak at his mangled leg before it is amputated, raging and screaming in self-pity. There is no satisfaction in seeing any of it one last time, but you absolutely must look.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9036414420963948683-7806004806710905038?l=carmengoman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://carmengoman.blogspot.com/feeds/7806004806710905038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9036414420963948683&amp;postID=7806004806710905038' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9036414420963948683/posts/default/7806004806710905038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9036414420963948683/posts/default/7806004806710905038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://carmengoman.blogspot.com/2008/10/chapter-why.html' title='Chapter ½, Why'/><author><name>carmengoman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15485514469769927975</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry></feed>
