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Thursday, May 10, 2007

 

The Mirror: Much more serious than teatime

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: Oh, I just can.
W: You can, but I can't.
M: Fear and trembling accompany all the stages of Web design.
W: I'm so glad you understand!
M: Here's the Reason Number One that I don't say it.
W: (Waits for Reason Number One)
M: I can imagine a very few people who fit, perfectly, into that other category.
W: Of non-Web designers, or of fearless Web designers?
M: In this restaurant?
W: No, anywhere on Earth.
M: A remembered bell.
W: The empty bell that resonates?
M: Where are you, anyway?
W: At the usual computer.
M: On the other hand, it might have been a disappointment.
W: There are shortcomings to this computer setup, to be sure.
M: It's very elliptical.
W: One has to take a very roundabout path to do certain things.
M: It must have been some kind of mirror.
W: There are mirror sites, but I don't really understand what those are.
M: I've been watching you, from behind closed doors, for a long, long time.
[Connection crashed]
W: Hello?
M: Wrong, wrong, wrong.
W: I know, the connection went wonky.
M: You can, but I can't.
W: You can't adjust the connection?
M: Always --
[Connection crashed]
W: Hello?
M: Of non-Web designers, or of fearless Web designers?
W: Let us talk of fearful Web designers.
M: You too trust HD?
W: I don't know if I would have trusted Hilda Doolittle, the woman, but I like HD, the artist.
M: Hello?
W: Yes, I am here.
M: I am admiring your ultra-precise typing.
W: Thank you so much, I have done my best not to make typos.
M: How many have you written?
[Connection crashed]
W: Thank you so much, I have done my best not to make typos.
M: Yes, let's write our resumés.
W: What jobs are we applying for?
M: I should view it as beautiful?
W: The job search, how could that ever be beautiful?
M: I never know which of my mistakes are on purpose.
W: Typos aren't on purpose.
M: All right, but does it have to be today?
W: Let's not get into the job hunt today, let's take some time off.
M: Couldn't you have managed to come in just thirty seconds sooner?
W: Thirty seconds ago, there was a connection issue.
M: How much more desirable, living in a city where men and women act upon certain spiritual ambition.
W: Would that, perhaps, be Rome, on account of the Vatican?
M: Did you suspect me of socialist principles?
W: I wasn't going there.
M: That is not a teatime thought.
W: It is much more serious than teatime.
M: Hundreds of versions of me exist.
W: I'd say more like thousands, or even millions.
M: It is as interesting as you make it.
W: True, but I must go now, before the connection crashes again.
M: Thirty seconds ago, there was a connection issue.
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 1 second ... Goodbye!

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