dis-/ill-connected thoughts

[fflo]

•  There's something very good about living above boards / in the open.

•  A screensaver shot of vjsmom and upsidedownblue and psychesdesire and me in which we are all gleefully quite intoxicated just greeted my return to my desk.

•  "You'd better shop around," said Smokey R. (or Smokey R's mother, if you will)

•  Where, the old joy for a swanky event? How coax it out?

•  I have more H-bomb thoughts to post some time. Recently-/currently-gelling ones. No use pretending they'll be the last.

•  "conditional tense" --- too obviously pregnant for poetry? not the tense itself---the potential double entendre/entente senses of the words

•  If the Good Lord came down today and struck us of all trope(s), where would I be? How would I be? Who would I be? And why does that look so good?

Comments

[paperkingdoms]

I think it depends on how you play it ["conditional tense", that is].

And I like tropes.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

me, too. maybe too much?

[paperkingdoms]

I s'pose it's possible. But I think it's what gives language a lot of depth. I love the way phrases pick up connotations and connections. I s'pose there's something to be said for being clear and literal. It's important to be *able* to do that. And I s'pose it goes too far when it's used to conceal instead of elucidate. I think, though, that we often think in terms of connections of things... and exploiting that to wrap language around it all isn't a bad thing.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

You rock, E. Thanks for that. You're right, of course---loving those connections isn't just some neurosis. Ain't no shame in the game.

I just sometimes feel lost in metaphor, or in other twists of ways of thinking in turns of phrase & the ilk. I love it but get dizzy, maybe. Want to hit myself in the head .... hey, where's that icon.... there.

But the opposite of depth in this case is worse than shallow---it's hollow, I'd venture to say.

The weather is crazy wild out there tonight, and that's making me feel better about everything.

[paperkingdoms]

I don't think thkere's any shame it setting all to one side until things look clearer, either. Or hitting yourself in the head. ;^)

I love the way storms can be restorative like that.