Late Again
September 1, 2011 in Blogs
Today’s new Examiner temporal anomalies article is about a butterfly effect idea, that being a little late can change much. It is entitled Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel part 2: delay, and spots a very subtle joke that is part of the core of the story, that indeed drinking your pint a bit later and thus going to the bathroom a bit later really can mean that the entire universe is going to unravel.
I myself was delayed; once again I was waylaid, invited to run out for a bite to eat, and then bamboozled into four plus hours of mostly shopping and similar errands. I did not get other things done today I had intended to do, and at this point I am not going to.
I won’t put too much blame on the prolific Eric Ashley, as I had managed already to read several of the new pieces that appeared since Monday. The story of the mountain excavation continues in Practise Bits: Legend 3. Practise Bits: Songs has a feeling of a fable, very allegorical on some level. He threw me with Practise Bits: Mercies, as he apparently jumped from a dreamt memory of a past reality to a present reality without clarifying it. Two more I had to read tonight to be up to speed, both of them somewhat lengthy for my already drained brain. Practise Bits: Haze gives us an arrogant versing immortal, who believes that it is his obligation to remodel every world he enters into a socialist state, at whatever cost to the people of that world. Then in the last one he used a fun and clever bit which I not only saw coming, my foggy wandering mind started trying to figure out how to use it in one of my own stories before he dropped the other shoe. I knew as soon as he said that the statues gave him a chill that particular day that–well, even though it’s long and somewhat meandering, Practise Bits: Guide is worth reading for the clever twist.
Tomorrow is bad. Hopefully I will be able to catch up on some things on Saturday, although I expect to be beat and perhaps also a bit busy. We’ll see.
–M. J. Young
Tadeusz said on September 2, 2011
Thanks. I was trying in Guide to do something like I had done in the Wedding Reporterette story. Provide an excuse to exercise my descriptive skills, but this time focused on buildings. I think that needs more work.
And now for a riddle for all who read Practise Bits: Guide.
There are four bas-relief statues on the north side of the Cathedral of the Unknown Martyr. We know one is Mavricka, the beautiful blonde. Who are the other three?