Two blades of grass leaned together in the wind.
"I've been working on a memoir."
"I think it's a north wind. Brisk. What kind of memoir?"
"An account of my adolescence."
"A growing pains kind of thing."
"Detailed yet macro. Plenty of digressions about the meadow."
"So a memoir doubling as a niche study."
"I'd call it ambiance. Cultural climate, if you will."
"It gives the piece depth."
"Right. I'm not a narcissist."
"Your inadequacy as subject leaving room for the group."
"I am the prime example. The central text."
"A part of the whole."
"Part for the whole."
"Fiction or non-fiction?"
"The memoir?"
The wind stopped. The blades of grass tilted slowly back to upright positions, stretching toward the high-noon sun, dry and awake.
"Are you fabricating some of it? Heightening the realism for dramatic effect?"
"That's when the meadow comes in. To fill in the gaps of mundane."
"The others, the crabgrass, the dandelions. As related to you. Or otherwise."
"It's a non-fictional work."
It was a lazy, gorgeous afternoon. A lawnmower puttered.
"Are you a fatalist?"
"My writing doesn't shape the way I live. So maybe."
"Your writing is purely observational."
"Outside but in."
"Writing in the first person with a third person's perspective."
"Like an Escher sketch. Or a Mobius strip."
"You leave no other side. No slate for reader opinion."
"They can judge the voice. The story is mine."
The blades of grass were chopped into pieces and scattered like seeds. Unattached and considerably lighter, they skipped across the lawn with the slightest breeze.
2006-08-20 17:58:20
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answered by Anonymous
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To be funny constitutes the nerves only in as far as it concerns the funny bone. To be boring on the other hand need not concern the funny bone if only because the state of being bored is not associated with any skeletal feature. Therefore the only way to answer a question that begs a question that begs an answer that begs to be unfunny and boring is to think of begging not a process but as potential. Think of it as begging without looking or asking or kneeling or lying in the street. A dignified request more than begging. A gentleman's beg.
2006-08-20 18:46:44
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answered by happyman 3
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This is actually a really flippant question. Asking for serious answers to it is paradoxical. The philosophy section is not the place for this kind of coy "playfulness"; it's a place to grapple with the complex realities of human existence, and the vexing, age-old questions they raise.
2006-08-20 17:40:42
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answered by Keither 3
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In future ask serrious questions and end with the request for serious anwers only!
Obviously there are many people in this world who do not wish to be serious.
2006-08-20 17:44:46
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answered by G.T. L 3
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The only thing we can do now is pray and hope the world would forget its greedy ways. We must also find it in ourself to change for the better.
2006-08-21 02:50:18
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answered by DJ 2
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Thank you for spelling humour in both the accepted ways.
2006-08-20 17:58:35
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answered by Anonymous
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I know this girl and today she hit a cat on the road. Not only, did the cat die, but when she swerved, she hit a tree. She died, too.
2006-08-20 17:37:11
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answered by Anonymous
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Mangled baby ducks.
2006-08-20 17:41:32
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answered by Ado Annie 3
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Nice photos.
2006-08-20 20:04:56
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answered by Snowflake 7
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Life's too important to be taken seriously.
2006-08-20 17:55:38
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answered by Skippy 2
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