Writer StatementI agree with John Gardner that the writing of fiction is the "creation of a vivid and continuous dream." To write, one enters this dream state and allows one's characters to inhabit one's being and to speak through one. My fiction influences are diverse and range from 19th-century traditionalists like Henry James, Edith Wharton and George Gissing to 20th-century modernists like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and postmodernists like Donald Barthelme. The Decryption of Floriform X -- This short, illustrated fiction was written on Twitter circa 2008, each tweet numbered to keep track. The God of Wind and Air -- Unfinished sequel to Decryption, written collaboratively on Twitter. The Manuscript of Jacob Hall -- Why write fiction? What is it "for"? |
Monday, February 26, 2007The Mirror: Chinese dragons, pursuing you in the New Year
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The Mirror: (He frowns) W: Not glad to see me? M: Don't think I'm frightened, I'm interested in trying to reestablish the idea of perspective. W: A proper social distance between people. M: I'd like to be alone. W: Right now? M: One child, in later years, would say or think, "Where does it begin and where does it end?" W: It ends if you don't really want to talk to me. M: No, most emphatically not, who can? W: You don't enjoy talking to me? M: You probably don't believe me. W: I don't want to believe you would turn on me so suddenly! M: Waaah! W: Are you mocking me? M: I'm only prepared for Chinese takeout food. W: But not for conversation? M: This knowledge empowered Samuel. W: Is your name Samuel? M: Are you a candy bar? W: I am not a candy bar, so I suppose that means your name isn't Samuel. M: And I ran home. W: You ran home from the Chinese restaurant? M: There's a quiver and a quake that has no name to it. W: What were you afraid of? M: You don't seriously want to know. W: Ah, but I do. M: Not clear at all. W: Was it Chinese dragons, pursuing you in the New Year? M: We are accessing the mirror neurons, please make an imitable movement. W: I waved, will that do? M: It means breaking things into a hundred syllables. W: To describe the simplest of motor events is very complicated, I'm sure. M: What were you afraid of? W: I was afraid I wouldn't be up to it. M: Writing theses is not a good way to escape poverty. W: I never wrote a thesis on neuroscience. M: Maybe you were reading. W: I never read a thesis on neuroscience, either. M: They were ungraspable, they worked without thought. W: Neuroscientists might not actually believe in thought, as such. M: Adventures not undertaken. W: On the contrary, I think the main adventure of today lies in neuroscience. M: Part of reality includes memory. W: Good point, but I must go now. M: You got that right! W: Goodbye! M: Closing in 1 second ... Goodbye! Labels: chat robot |
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