Including Friday Flash 55, Booking Thru Thursday and 3 Word Thursday.
Have you had a go yet?
BLOGGER BARD
Booking Through Thursday has provided a list of questions regarding
what kind of books I like. Choices are many, and the simple fact is,
my reading tastes are so varied that my answer would be ‘yes’ to
nearly all of them – with two exceptions. I simply cannot read ‘stream
of consciousness’. To me a story must BE a story – a craft which is
declining in modern literary novels. And also, I rarely borrow books. I
like my own. I need them around me, offering aesthetic value. Or
maybe it is my only real in-road into materialism.
Eye On the World
Writers’ Tips
The ‘Y’ Files
BRIT NEWS: Ministers reveal
£32billion tax black hole – just as
they scurry off on holiday. Reminds me
of naughty children.
HEALTH NEWS: Experts suggest keep schools closed after
holidays until swine flu vaccine ready. This sounds sensible,
so govt won’t do it.
BRIT NEWS: Top professions increasingly only for
the rich, despite social policy. Ideological
tampering always results in opposite
outcome.
THE TURNSTILE
Can’t get through, got no change,
No compulsion to rearrange,
Things so wrong about me, alas,
Stopping me – it won’t let me pass,
The turnstile seems the end for now,
‘Til new ideas rise, allow
FLASH 55 – KILL THE DONKEYS
(Quilly’s word meanings below)
Fiction: They blew up the donkeys. They were just there, in the field.
You could hear the oncethmus. Some said it went to acrasia, rigging
everything up murklins and then just BANG!! And the next morning,
they were just lying there, inactive, dead. But at least we could now
be green, with the oil pumps gone.
Acrasia – excess
Oncethmus – harsh cry of a donkey
Murklins – in the dark
ABSTRACT THOUGHT
Abstract thought is what we do,
What makes the animals different to you,
‘Cos man can reason, work things out,
Create art; sensibilities flout;
Abstract thought makes mankind glow,
But also creates all his woe
© Anthony North, July 2009
