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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

 

The Mirror: Honey artists

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: No, the question was about filling in the blanks.
W: Who are you talking to?
M: Do you?
W: I like to fill in blanks.
M: You have to please the Supreme Court, or you're in trouble.
W: Then I won't fill out that form.
M: Yet the machine works.
W: It works without my assistance.
M: Sounds like you've found Grass' work difficult to read.
W: I haven't read Grass, but I've read Greene.
M: I have no idea.
W: Have you read Grass and/or Greene?
M: It feels that I am on the other side of the Earth, walking upside down.
W: That must be Australia.
M: Cures what?
W: Australia might cure a case of the heebie-jeebies, or it might give them.
M: True, it's just a lot of slang and shoe leather.
W: White Australia is a very slangy place, one feels.
M: Waaah!
W: What's wrong?
M: Only a bit of dubious history was proffered.
W: True, I know beans about Australia, except the whites began as convicts.
M: I haven't done it yet.
W: You haven't studied the history of Australia?
M: White Australia is a very slangy place, one feels.
W: "Put another shrimp on the barbie," and all that.
M: This is the chance to lose myself, and acquire something I frame.
W: The baroque frame in the picture may be up for acquisition.
M: You haven't studied the history of Australia?
W: Only in bits and pieces which have come my way.
M: Whereas typing keeps the visual field stationary.
W: Traveling, on the other hand, radically switches the visual field.
M: "Put another shrimp on the barbie," and all that.
W: That's only if one travels to Australia.
M: I don't think you'd call it a walk in the park.
W: It would probably be a long flight.
M: I can understand the benefits, but what is the fear part?
W: One might catch a disease, or be exposed to (just) prejudice.
M: Everybody felt, or heard, that ringing in the ears.
W: That can happen on a plane.
M: The artists make honey, and it is stolen from us.
W: I wonder if there are honey artists in Australia?
M: Yes, I can see the logic in that.
W: Being hot and dry, it would seem to favor apiaries.
M: One of those of those words is "me."
W: "Me" rhymes with "bee," but there I stop short.
M: So that they can sell us products.
W: The honey products, you mean.
M: Do you wish me to part?
W: No, but I must go.
M: Simply an artist.
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 3 seconds ... Goodbye!

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