My subconscious mind has been acting up again, and this time it has been telling me to do something fun and positive that starts with the letter C. Hmm.
Why it should begin with a C is totally beyond me. At first I thought it was because C is a round and lively-looking letter, and besides it is three-quarters of the letter O which is the round, Zen-ish positive number of all positive numbers, the Zero. But then why didn’t my mind fix on O instead? Why C? And besides, there are a limited amount of activities that start with C. Card-collecting? Car-crashing? Cat-cuddling?
...Cooking Crispy Cow?...
What I’ve ended up doing so far, however, is econs Case-studying on the Closed economy (which is nowhere near fun and positive).
Words are funny. You ever really noticed them? These days I’ve gone to feeling that they are useful tools of expression, but sadly inadequate. (Thank you, Harold Pinter.) Still, they are quite fun to examine closely. From time to time I have little blank-out moments when I start to look at a word, really start to look at it, and I feel as though I’ve never seen it before. Words, for me, are emotion-laden. Most of the time, anyway. The word “cry”, for example, somehow looks upset because of the shape of the “r” right next to the “y”, and the “c” like a sad eye on a contorted face. “Sharp” looks just like itself because of the jutting-out ends on the “h” and the “p”, and somehow the rounder, softer “S” and “a” do nothing to smoothen it. “Smooth” is nice and pleasant because of the comforting and somehow maternal “oo” (read it aloud), and the word as a whole is rounded and positive-looking. But there are words which totally do not look like themselves: Take “sky”, for example. Too sharp and short and somehow rigid, even with its dragged-out “ky” sound.
Also, I was reading the introduction to my copy of "Jane Eyre" recently when I started wondering, not for the first time, about creating my own fantasy land(s) and epic stories like the Bronte siblings did when they were younger. Charlotte and Branwell, Emily and Anne created the worlds of Angria and Gondal respectively, complete with characters and complex stories from their own imaginations. I would like that. It is a lot less painless to live inside than outside, and a great deal less risky. Maybe I could come up with a totally insane, Alice-In-Wonderland-ish story about characters who did nothing but stuff beginning with C.
Yes, being shut up at home is driving me nuts.
I could start examining words which have two or three different meanings at the same time (think “mad”) to see what they look like, but I should be getting back to work. Haven’t done anything all day.
[Edit] ...Just realised the name "Clive" starts with a C. Suddenly the letter feels a lot less positive.
Why it should begin with a C is totally beyond me. At first I thought it was because C is a round and lively-looking letter, and besides it is three-quarters of the letter O which is the round, Zen-ish positive number of all positive numbers, the Zero. But then why didn’t my mind fix on O instead? Why C? And besides, there are a limited amount of activities that start with C. Card-collecting? Car-crashing? Cat-cuddling?
...Cooking Crispy Cow?...
What I’ve ended up doing so far, however, is econs Case-studying on the Closed economy (which is nowhere near fun and positive).
Words are funny. You ever really noticed them? These days I’ve gone to feeling that they are useful tools of expression, but sadly inadequate. (Thank you, Harold Pinter.) Still, they are quite fun to examine closely. From time to time I have little blank-out moments when I start to look at a word, really start to look at it, and I feel as though I’ve never seen it before. Words, for me, are emotion-laden. Most of the time, anyway. The word “cry”, for example, somehow looks upset because of the shape of the “r” right next to the “y”, and the “c” like a sad eye on a contorted face. “Sharp” looks just like itself because of the jutting-out ends on the “h” and the “p”, and somehow the rounder, softer “S” and “a” do nothing to smoothen it. “Smooth” is nice and pleasant because of the comforting and somehow maternal “oo” (read it aloud), and the word as a whole is rounded and positive-looking. But there are words which totally do not look like themselves: Take “sky”, for example. Too sharp and short and somehow rigid, even with its dragged-out “ky” sound.
Also, I was reading the introduction to my copy of "Jane Eyre" recently when I started wondering, not for the first time, about creating my own fantasy land(s) and epic stories like the Bronte siblings did when they were younger. Charlotte and Branwell, Emily and Anne created the worlds of Angria and Gondal respectively, complete with characters and complex stories from their own imaginations. I would like that. It is a lot less painless to live inside than outside, and a great deal less risky. Maybe I could come up with a totally insane, Alice-In-Wonderland-ish story about characters who did nothing but stuff beginning with C.
Yes, being shut up at home is driving me nuts.
I could start examining words which have two or three different meanings at the same time (think “mad”) to see what they look like, but I should be getting back to work. Haven’t done anything all day.
[Edit] ...Just realised the name "Clive" starts with a C. Suddenly the letter feels a lot less positive.
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