When things are most quiet
15th June 2009How do you teach a soldier to stand down? A fighter when the coast is clear to let down his guard and conserve energies at an opportune moment, like when there are no more bumblebees in the bathroom. But what if one should appear? Should you get caught in the bathroom with your pants and your guard down both, should you worry.
Inimitable concern. Unmitigated concern. And a facility for pronouncing neither.
And a propensity for overblown savagery.
Here in this eight-by-eight room of halves and three-quarters sits a stoned and weathered you. A glossy mirrored you. A you of little faith. A misunderstanding. No one leans against a lamppost to watch. Your thread of word being too hard to follow. I mean swallow. I mean I was almost in there without the first person. I mean I was almost in there without the cruelly amateur attempt at post-modernism. Oh, look. She said post-modernism. Burn that bitch at the steak. Do I have to sic it or will you not believe that whatever I can will do say what what.
16th June 2009 at 10:03 am
overblown savagery will be the death of us. come here and let me hold you tight.
16th June 2009 at 11:33 am
I think that is one of the most terrifying images imaginable, getting caught in the bathroom with your pants down in the company of an enraged bee or a wasp. Just the thought of it makes me shudder.
16th June 2009 at 12:54 pm
(Black! Black! Black! Oh, er, okay, very dark grey. But “black!” sounds better. Ahem.)
I think “will you not believe that whatever I can will do say what what” should be a motto to live by for most writers.
16th June 2009 at 8:56 pm
Isabelle: Yes, I would quite like some subtle savagery for a change.
Jim: Wasp is such an ugly word. I prefer to think of any small yellowish buzzing thing as a bumblebee. Even if it is trying to sting my ass cheek.
AUW: Sssshhhh. Don’t tell anyone!
17th June 2009 at 1:54 am
You are right postmodernism sucks, specially when written in the middle of a texts, it just justifies every single piece of crap ever written. Everything without any sense becomes with a sense.
17th June 2009 at 7:17 pm
I wasn’t actually saying post-modernism sucks. I think I was saying that people talking about post-modernism sucks. But you’re right that trying to make sense out of everything is really annoying, too. ;)
18th June 2009 at 8:58 pm
Yes, I expressed myself wrong, I did not meant to say that post-modernism per se sucks, but I see you managed somehow to read my mind. Pretty sharp from you.