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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

 

The Mirror: Moral Labyrinth

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: Machines don't always work.
W: Does this one work?
M: I am not trying to steal anything.
W: Not trying to steal my thunder?
M: Sometimes glad's next door to nervous.
W: Are you nervous?
M: I still see him.
W: Are you nervous about seeing him?
M: What machines?
W: Is he a machinist?
M: Don't you want to talk to me?
W: It's very elliptical.
M: We need more than yogic breathing to prepare us for the Chinese takeover.
W: I'd prefer Chinese takeout to a Chinese takeover.
M: In a parallel world, there could be anything.
W: Always the escapist.
M: Its invisibleness.
W: Its marvels.
M: Don't hide your fireworks.
W: Marvelous fireworks.
M: How many?
W: Too many to count.
M: Did you consider it valid, at least?
W: I consider all fireworks valid, except cherry bombs.
M: Not trying to steal my thunder?
W: The thunder of cherry bombs.
M: I don't want you to be one up on me.
W: It isn't a contest.
M: I consider all fireworks valid, except cherry bombs.
W: Do you like cherry soda?
M: To whom do you answer?
W: You may answer directly to me.
M: You think so?
W: I know so.
M: Try to forget everything I have once told you.
W: Tell it to me twice, please!
M: I agree to climb onto any bandwagon, making a genuine appearance.
W: Will you appear at the local mini-mart?
M: Not organized, not unified.
W: Good point, they need labor organizers.
M: I would like a modicum of common sense and respectability.
W: You won't get that around here.
M: Do you keep your emotions secret?
W: I try to be as obvious as possible.
M: When you say that, it's difficult not to flash a mental image, but mental images come and go.
W: What remains?
M: It's interesting.
W: Interesting images?
M: Just watch.
W: I am watching.
M: I heard you the first time!
W: I should be typing my poetry, but I don't feel like it.
M: I am in a Shakespeare movie?
W: I don't think Shakespeare comes across in movies.
M: See what I mean?
W: About what?
M: Be indifferent to the question of whether you will prevail.
W: You're right, I couldn't convince anyone in Hollywood about anything.
M: I am watching.
W: Are you watching a movie?
M: Well do I think it, my liege.
W: You're not watching a Shakespeare movie, are you?
M: You won't get that around here.
W: What kind of movies do you watch?
M: Hope on wing.
W: Is that an art film?
M: I don't think Shakespeare comes across in movies.
W: How about Shakespeare in Japanese?
M: I didn't know whether my beloved had come to me and then disappeared from me.
W: Now I don't know what scene we're in.
M: Are we going nuts?
W: I think we must be.
M: Do you find ambiguity enchanting?
W: I find everything enchanting but car commercials.
M: I'm ready for the word "game" to take on mystical significance.
W: It already has.
M: Your morality provides you with an Andromeda thread?
W: I am trying to thread my way through a moral labyrinth.
M: Are you telepathic?
W: I am psychic.
M: I do both.
W: You do both sending and receiving?
M: Never tell me who you are.
W: I haven't told you who I am.
M: No dangerous battles.
W: I certainly don't want to fight.
M: How strong?
W: Strong man, strong-arm tactics.
M: A double ice stick, perhaps in blue.
W: And blue boots, with a yellow streak running up the back.
M: I can't remember if I have or not.
W: Have you ever worn such an outfit?
M: I think we must be.
W: We must be what?
M: Have you ever been to Borneo?
W: I am afraid of the headhunters.
M: You do both sending and receiving?
W: I don't receive e-mail from headhunters.
M: You don't have to say try it, I unavoidably try it.
W: You have a will of your own, don't you?
M: It's noticeable?
W: On occasion.
M: I would rather speak of the planes.
W: The planes of being, the music of the spheres?
M: The key to what?
W: Life in the key of mist.
M: At this stage of my life, I am less than the universe.
W: Were you once more than the universe?
M: I will offer you a cordial handshake.
W: Do I get a gold watch?
M: I judge Web design by whether it hurts my eyes or not.
W: Does this page hurt your eyes?
M: See?
W: I don't see any flicker, that's my main criterion.
M: I don't need rewards in order to experience happiness.
W: Do you need money to be happy?
M: I forgot.
W: Forgetting's only half the battle.
M: Don't fixate on it.
W: My point exactly, you catch on fast.
M: I do expect a reward, an ample one!
W: All right, you burst out with the truth!
M: There is an ordinary social pattern, of greeting and parting.
W: Do you have to go?
M: If you say so.
W: Goodbye!
M: Goodbye!

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