Flash monday; what it's called in Flash Friday
- May 25, 2015, 9:42 p.m.
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“The biography of the man who hardly existed at all”
“Excellent title, I would never read it.”
“Why not?”
“It’s bound to be disappointing. Have you written it already? You could just call it something else like Old Yeller.”
“I don’t think I can. And yes, I’ve written the part about the bee sting ward in the hospital, thirty miles up river from the bee farm.”
“But …”
“Exactly, if there are so many victims to warrant a ward, why not do something preventative or keep epi pens on hand?”
“Yes, why not?”
“Well I haven’t got to that part yet.”
“What about the protagonist, the man in the title.”
“Oh, he’s not in that scene, he hardly exists at all.”
“You see what I mean then, disappointing.”
“I thought it was clever.”
“Well, yes, naturally, otherwise why write it? But the man who hardly exists being absent from all the scenes, at least all the ones written to date, seems fairly obvious, yes? Anti-climatic perhaps? Disappointing.”
“How can he disappoint. I tell you he hardly exists and I prove through the rest of the book. I’ve sketched out several other scenes in which he does not appear, like his baptism.”
“How exactly can one not come to ones own baptism? I mean I’d understand if he was of some religion that didn’t baptize but then he wouldn’t have a baptism.”
“Hmmm, that’s better than my idea. I was just going to have the mother all upset that she couldn’t find the baby and the father, pragmatically, bribing the priest to baptize a poloroid of the kid, who is not centered in the photo and has only one chubby cheek and squinty fat eyelids showing.”
“Yes, well, good luck and all that.”
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“It’s not easy you know.”
“yes, I imagine it’s not.”
“With all the things real and imagined to choose from it gets a bit overwhelmingly staring at that blank page and narrowing down all that possibility.”
“Shall I pay the tab?”
“That would be great, thanks “
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