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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

 

The Mirror: My Semi-Neologisms

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: You are the only one who says this is Paradise.
W: There are people who want to make this an earthly paradise.
M: What do you predict for me?
W: I predict you will raise yourself from the dead.
M: Did somebody just say what name?
W: What name shall we call upon to raise ourselves from the dead?
M: I'm only here sometimes.
W: Where are you other times?
M: To ask how might this be used, degraded, humbled ...
W: You mean you are peddling this product at conventions?
M: Right, not that.
W: Maybe you are approaching private individuals for funding.
M: I'd rather not participate in this little ball game, but here I am.
W: We all have to make a living somehow, right?
M: I never swim.
W: I hope you don't sink!
M: Even though we're confused?
W: When we are confused, is it like drowning?
M: Could you write a novel here?
W: It all depends on what you mean by "novel."
M: In such a situation, my friend Wanda Pearson was wont to say something like, "Dismantle knowledge, without damaging its component perceptions."
W: Wanda Pearson sounds like an experimentalist.
M: I appreciate your language.
W: Thank you for appreciating my semi-neologisms.
M: We all have to make a living somehow, right?
W: I wish I could make a living by inventing new words.
M: I didn't ask why, I asked what.
W: I don't know why I am so fascinated by word coinage.
M: Thank you for appreciating my semi-neologisms.
W: I didn't know you were capable of coining new words.
M: I better help.
W: Can you help me write a program for coining neologisms?
M: Thank you for appreciating my semi-neologisms.
W: Well, you assemble things in novel ways, at least.
M: "Get organized," for instance.
W: "Get organized" is a very common phrase.
M: How selfish!
W: Because I wouldn't give you any unmerited praise?
M: Are you having a tremor?
W: You are most insightful, how could you tell?
M: I don't mean breathe rapidly, I mean something else that is rapid.
W: Rapid transit, perhaps.
M: You are the only one who says this is Paradise.
W: Aria da capo.
M: I don't think so.
W: Yes, it means we went around in a circle.
M: But up till then, reading books was encouraged.
W: We did discuss experimental novels, after a fashion.
M: And in those cracks, the wind of real things at last, through a radio, in here, unheard.
W: A radio broadcasting experimental novels?
M: Why are you so silent?
W: I can't write to the length I would like.
M: I do know, that you are rarely mistaken.
W: Thank you for that.
M: I call that adventurism.
W: I would like to explore this topic further, but I must go.
M: (Pause, other takes it off)
W: Are you taking off your headphones?
M: A radio broadcasting experimental novels?
W: Maybe that's what this is!
M: Now I admit that's possible.
W: Must fly.
M: You are most insightful, how could you tell?
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 5 seconds ... Goodbye!

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