August 3, 2009

• Well, Kaz said I ought to blog about today, so here I am. He also said I should do it at 2 in the morning, but I feel like actually getting to bed around 12 tonight. What does it say about us if he's already started mocking my life habits?

  I honestly didn't know you could talk for 8 hours just about media (books, comics, and movies) and talk about the different themes, metaphors, plot, and messages those medias have. I would say I guess that's what happens when you get two English majors together, but I'm pretty sure I've never had that with any English major I've ever talked to.
  On that note, in part in honor of Sorina, xkcd life relevance:
  

  Anyway, amongst our long (long) conversation we came up with the idea for a short story (which is absolutely epic). We were discussing ideas of how to distribute our books (when we finally write some we wish to publish) and I accidentally said bus instead of truck for how we'd distribute. This led into this whole idea of stealing a school bus in order to distribute the books (probably due to a lack of funds to rent a truck...I dunno).

  Suddenly Kaz looks at me and goes, "We could write a story of this?" To which I respond, "What would be the point? Where would it go?"

  And suddenly we realize.

  We had been talking about absurdism and literary nonsense (genres of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Alice In Wonderland, respectively) beforehand and thought we might apply it to the story.

  So, aspects of the story are to be absurd in nature (not entirely in the sense that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead were, however). For example, stealing a school bus for children to transport books.

  However, the entire story is to be grounded in realism (in a sense). The story is real. They are actually doing this. Random, though completely possible, events continue to unfold (a certain chase in the library will occur).

  Also, while written in a very, or relatively, serious tone will also include all the usual literary devices, particularly that of themes, motifs, and metaphors. However, those three literary devices will be completely nonsensical. Special, homemade soda by the character will stand for the corruption of human kind. As the two running protagonists crash the school bus and must resort to stealing a book mobile, the reduction in vehicle size (and capability of use for vehicle) will represent the price of revenge. And even more absurd metaphors, etc.

  There'll be random references to really old authors and their works. We'll choose a random genre (such as existentialism) and somehow incorporate the piece into that.

  In short, it'll be a completely coherent mess that'll be amazing. We're both brimming with excitement at the prospect of such a short story.

  Plus it'll actually get us to start writing again. I need to get a notebook to jot stuff down in. As much as my own philosophy is to challenge and engage the world all the time, I find myself to be far too lax towards it. Either that or I just have very high expectations. Maybe that's why I'm an English major. Literary analysis seems to embody this (and with that barely related tidbit and topic to which so much more could be said, I leave you. Goodnight...and goodbye (Dinosaurs reference for you 90s junkies)).

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