Wednesday, March 3, 2010

e TOASTED TO TASTE BETTER

e I see now that I have 33 posts. I am impressed. I think when I get to 50 I will go back and read them all, perhaps even edit a misspelling or a repetition.YOU DIDN'T. Still 33 of this ought to get some sort of credit, like combing your hair and messing it up 33 times in a row, an activity not likely to result in anything productive, but you might learn about the texture of your hair or how strong your arms are. It is obvious that in its present form of concise bloat this cannot continue indefinitely.EVERYTIME I SEE THE WORDS THIS CANNOT CONTINUE INDEFINITELY I AM GOING TO CALL IT OUT AND SCREAM It is starting to drive the writer mad.THE WRITER WAS MAD BEFORE HE STARTED. So-- and this is a death-defying trick--while he continues to write LA in its current form, the writer must come up with a way to change it to make it more interesting for the reader and bearable for the writer.THIS HAS BEN SAID ONLY 10,000 TIMES BEFORE He could try writing it in French if he could write French. He could try writing it underwater if it wouldn't short out his computer. He could try writing it backwards which would accomplish absolutely nothing. Or, and this is the big one, he could let the reader in to inconspicuous corners of his personal life, thereby theoretically stimulating curiosity and interest. But what if the reader finds that the author's life is actually less interesting than the relatively anonymous blog-- that the author has really distilled all that is of any interest from his insignificant life and put it in LA and you, the reader, would be left with dregs like what color shirts he wears and what his favorite song is. No. This is all about staring at a dot for weeks and seeing what happens. Seeing whether the dot actually changes or your perception of the dot changes since if you were to stare at a motionless dot for weeks you would soon be as mad as the author and unless you were, you would have moved on to substance-containing blogs after a day or a month depending on how smart and patient you are. No, dance on dot. The suspense is that the author has no idea what the dot will do,l if anything or what perception of the dot will do. Perhaps it was this sort of nervousness that started morse code and we will eventually have meaning dots. Perhaps orange juice doesn't have as much vitamin C as they say it does. Perhaps we fold for now. FUTURE AUTHOR LIKES THE DOT IDEA NOW THAT HE IS TOYING WITH TERMINATING. THE DOT TAKES US BACK TO THE INITIAL PREMISE, DISCARDS INTEREST FOR READER OR WRITER AS A PARAMETER FOR CONTINUATION AND HAS AN ABSOLUTELY SICK, SIMPLE PREMISE WHICH THE AUTHOR CAN KEEP COMING BACK TO, LIKE RHYTMIC BREATHING. WE WILL SEE IF FUTURE AUTHOR PICKS UP ON THIS BUT IT IS THE FIRST INTELLINGENT (IN AN IDIOTIC WAY) THOUGHT HE HAS SEEN FROM THESE PAGES IN A LONG TIME. DOES ANY ONE OF HIS THREE OR FOUR READERS HAVE THE VAGUEST IDEA OF WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT. YOU MAY IN ABOUT A MONTH, IF YOU TRUDGE ON. MEANWHILE, JUST KEEP THINKING ABOUT STARING AT A DOT, YOUR CHOICE OF COLOR.

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