Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Post Script
Apparently the ending on the recently concluded series of posts, "The Adventure," was a bit sudden for the typical reader. The reason it stopped so suddenly is because that day is a blank to me. After I gassed up the Chevy Airbag, I kind of lost consciousness. However, my wife has pledged to help me reconstruct the events of that day so that I can write one more installment, one that will give America (or the most infinitesimal fraction thereof) the ending it craves.
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Well, Penelope does a pretty good job with the memory reconstruction assistance, fortunately. For instance, last night, she mentioned that I had lunch at the airport in Minneapolis on the way back and I remembered what it was and started remembering the circumstances surrounding it.
I have a friend who's a licensed hypnotherapist. I'd ask him to regress me, but I'm afraid I'd go back too far and disappear.
That it might be a piece about trying to recover the memories could be interesting. We'll see. We'll see.
Maybe you could just knock out quick description of a few major truths and life changing moments that came out of your trip and then sum it all up in a way that will simultaneously amuse and inspire the typical reader. Something like that ought to do the trick.
Al Beharound
LenZen,
A good quote always helps. You could also insert a parable demonstrating what you learned... you know, the big picture. I actually liked the whole thang as is but if you can dredge the remaining brain cells I'll read that too.
- Freaky Ezekiel
I wanted it to be in nine parts, just like a martini. I guess the clever phrase could be "Hare today, goon tomorrow." Or maybe not. How about "I put the litter in literature"? Now, that has promise.
Just as long as you don't put the mean in meaning.
Dr. Love
Oddly enough, Perelman was known for the endless variety of euphemisms he employed for excsuing himself to use the men's room, one of which was "going to use the sandbox." I've employed this euphemism myself, always to good laughs.
I'm hoping I didn't put the "me" in "mean," unless it's the Golden Mean. I wish I had put it in 'Dr. Me," but Phil Somebody-or-Other did that, for which I'll be eternally grateful.
Cat Ballou-Average
Just don't excuse yourself to go liquidate some assets. And where does today come before yesterday?
Just as long as you don't put the Herm in hermaphrodite.
H. Melville
Where does today come before yesterday? Is that like "How many Frenchmen can never be wrong?"
And, although I am not responsible (park and lock it!) for the Herm, I will, on occasion while drinking, claim to have put the Her-Her in Herman's Hermits.
I. Noah Riddle
I'm going to go with eleven on the Frenchmen and the troll under the bridge said the answer to the other one, of course, is "in the dictionary." Zounds! For some reason, I just couldn't think of it so I had to let him eat my goat. The dictionary is where I'm going right now to look up "wraith"-to me it sounds sort of feminine. I just got a notice from ft.com that your tale is now there too, eh? Very nice. I hear Chaucer is also considering including it in his new anthology called "Beyond Canterbury: What's Happening!" This could be your break.
I promise to remember all the little people when I make it big. People like Billy Barty and the King of Liliput.
Robert, I agree. The "Tour Diary" attribution is misleading. It's more of a schnook-on-a-schlep-recovered-memoir. I'm sure there have been one or two visitors who have come expecting some sort of backstage expose', fruity with dialogue such as:
"'Are your going to finish your sandwich?' Bergman sneered. 'I'm still hungry.'
'Go right ahead,' Proctor lashed out. 'I'm full.'
Bergman surveyed him with contempt. 'Thank you,' he said, venom dripping from each syllable.
'You're welcome,' came the curt reply."
I, of course, have no such tales, still being only a part of the teeming masses. But once I'm on the inside--Kitty Kelley, watch out!
Just ofr the record:
1 a : the exact likeness of a living person seen usually just before death as an apparition b : GHOST, SPECTER
2 : an insubstantial form or semblance : SHADOW
3 : a barely visible gaseous or vaporous column
- wraith·like /-"lIk/ adjective
Miriam Webstar
Just again for the record, that was the definition of "wraith." Also, I am not conjecturing that anyone conforms to the third definition, even after the injection of a Mexican meal.
I'm pretty comfortable now. I was just worried that it was one of those flowery, woven circles that you hang on your door, which was a bit too sissy for a manly man like me. But I like the idea of being a specter, what with the wall of sound and all. That is totally cool.
Andy Strong
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