Of Ghoulies and World Order
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From Ghoulies and Ghosties, Long-Leggitie Beasties . . .
(Part 30)
Nor could he ask himself from asking, "Why?"
(Continued tomorrow.)
And my commentary . . .
Yeah, probably he wouldn't. But for the story to work, the question has to be asked. Thirty sentences into the story, only three things have happened: The pale man appeared. He announced that the monsters were leaving. And then he said that they were bringing Kenny along. Everything else was to establish time-space-mood. To make it a story.
You can read all of the story to date here.
And up above . . .
Great video, huh? I love those guys.
Some years ago, bopping through Manhattan carrying an impala skull (the skull itself was in a handmade cardboard box but the antlers stuck out and the very tips were in little tiny cardboard boxes so that the whole thing looked like a sculpture by Dali), I discovered that it was possible to make New Yorkers stop and gawk, if only briefly. But it's not easy.
So what I like best about the video is all the Manhattanites walking past without a second glance, and the very small number of them who were willing to stop for a second and acknowledge the inherent strangeness of life. Only a miniscule fraction of those who might ever have been born ever get the chance to acknowledge this . . . and most of us never do.
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From Ghoulies and Ghosties, Long-Leggitie Beasties . . .
(Part 30)
Nor could he ask himself from asking, "Why?"
(Continued tomorrow.)
And my commentary . . .
Yeah, probably he wouldn't. But for the story to work, the question has to be asked. Thirty sentences into the story, only three things have happened: The pale man appeared. He announced that the monsters were leaving. And then he said that they were bringing Kenny along. Everything else was to establish time-space-mood. To make it a story.
You can read all of the story to date here.
And up above . . .
Great video, huh? I love those guys.
Some years ago, bopping through Manhattan carrying an impala skull (the skull itself was in a handmade cardboard box but the antlers stuck out and the very tips were in little tiny cardboard boxes so that the whole thing looked like a sculpture by Dali), I discovered that it was possible to make New Yorkers stop and gawk, if only briefly. But it's not easy.
So what I like best about the video is all the Manhattanites walking past without a second glance, and the very small number of them who were willing to stop for a second and acknowledge the inherent strangeness of life. Only a miniscule fraction of those who might ever have been born ever get the chance to acknowledge this . . . and most of us never do.
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