You seem a bit tight-lipped today.
Can you take some pictures of the ducklings?
I haven't got a camera.You can imagine them anyway.They are tiny little fluffy things.Dark brown.Paddling round the pond following Mum.You can't see their little webbed feet going at sixty to the dozen but it's obvious they are doing from the speed they go.
Have you none there?
Of course we do! I would need to travel inland though
as we have none here at the Pacific and the little pond close
to my house is empty (the coyotes)
No camera by choice?
Yes.I have some sympathy with that old idea that a camera steals a portion of the subject's soul.
Have you heard of that?
Yes I have. Nonetheless, I love looking at the
pictures I have taken over the years. Plus, it will give me
something to do, once I'm in the retirement home.
You still could take a photo of orchids. No soul there,
right?
Not certain about that.Bit metaphysical.
Why do you think I am tight lipped today?
You're short in your answers and you look a bit grumpy
(at least that's what I picture inbetween the lines).
True?
No.False.I'm never grumpy.People often think I'm grumpy when I'm not in the least.I have got to the point of thinking that either I must look a bit grumpy when I'm not or that I am actually grumpy and don't know it?
Could that be possible?
Yes, it could be. You probably don't pay attention to your
own moods as other people do. Buy a camera and take
a picture of yourself every day, then you'll see....
When is your vacation coming up?
(I need to leave)
Never.I don't do vacations.I can't imagine anywhere better than here.I must be a lazy,idle good for nothing tight fisted stick in the mud like everybody says I am.The silly sods.
Do you agree with them?
I don't know if your lazy.
Why would they say that? (Who is they?)
Need to go now (you should go to bed too)....
I suppose 'they' would be that old generic - people you know, but don't know you well enough to really say. Someone who knows you THAT well shouldn't call you that UNLESS you really need to get off your behind & get out, but that doesn't sound exactly like Spendi- to me.
Are you an insomniac?
No, I have no problem sleeping. In fact I love to sleep....
Are you?
No.
If I wake up in the middle of the night,which I always do because of the beer,I am happy to just contemplate all the lovely ladies on these threads and try to work out new ways to impress them.And before I know it it's morning.
I'm in favour of insomnia because it makes life last longer but the trouble is that when you are in favour of it you soon go to sleep.I think it is a question of having something nice and outside yourself to think about.So personal problems should be kept to a minimum which really means living a simple life which I think boils down to never doing anything you don't have to do.
If you take the continuing sentence thread for example then just adding a few words gives you nothing to think about but if you are going to do 50-100 words and move the story forward in an amusing way whilst keeping it together and amusing your friends you do have something to think about which isn't boring and you will soon be asleep.That's what I get.
Anybody else get that?
I do get it Spendius - but I also think that a thread in the original writing forum will allow us to really think about our little vignettes and edit and create something really amusing and a little more polished.
Doesn't this appeal to you in any way?
Anything you suggest has a residual appeal.Lead the way.But it was only an example out of many I could have chosen as a suggestion for insomnia relief in the absence of chemicals.
I was simply playing around with a fantasised first 100 pages of Dangerous Liasons which Laclos didn't write about how the Comte de Valmont met Madame de Merteuil for that was she we had just had meet him.
Have you read it?
Haven't read it - but of course did see the movie - so I am familiar with the character. Although your Valmont doesn't seem nearly as evil as John Malkovich's - who's an absolute genius at playing really conniving, corrupt, insidious characters.
A big part of it is that Clary and Rod liked to play the game and I felt we kind of pushed them out of it- and I felt bad about that. This way - no guilt - right? People can continue to play the sentence game and we can write our little story - everybody's happy!
I also think we should incorporate letters into the narrative and action. What do you think?
Sounds perfect. A new venture, tried before but never really completed.
Where is the thread?
All possibilities are allowed in creative writing.Apart from spoilers which we have had.I can't see the slightest point in writing anything with no meaning although a spoiler does have meaning in revealing some mental track the spoiler is on as was the case with introducing reproductive considerations into a putative romantic setting.
What do you think about the idea that Trouvel's husband was the conniving,corrupt,insidious character?Oh ho Spendi-steady on old boy.One might even say that the book was the first glimmer of feminism and conditioned a great deal which came later not excluding Freud.
I used Lauzan instead of Azalon for a vague reason of my own.
I was being ironically romantic.
Were you?
