July 12, 2010

  •      "Do you think it's true, what they say?" I asked, leaning on one elbow.
         She looked back towards me, away from the mirror, a joyful smile shot towards me simply because it matched the evening. "What do you mean?"
         "That we just take a portion of a greater work, truncating it to fit our want. Like an avatar or quotes or the many tales of fan fiction. Or that dang rap music," I finished, laughing at my own sarcasm. "Borrowing and minimizes to that which we want, leaving away the rest."
         She picked up her brush from the vanity, stroking it through her hair and then back again. "Perhaps. Or is it just reflective of a greater human need? We're not interested in the rest clearly. We chose what we wanted. God forbid we desire no more from art than an actual emotional response from it."
         I shook my head at her smirk. "Have you gotten to know me so well so quickly?"
         She just smirked again as she shrugged, looking over her shoulder back at me again. "Oh, I like to think so."
         I couldn't help smiling.
         "If you do actually desire me to be serious," she continued, shaking her head and rolling her eyes at the ridiculousness of such a request, "it's not like all former constructions have been thrown out the window. The same expectations applied to a song played by live musicians are applied – roughly, that is – to a song constructed of samples. Fan fiction is still a story, which can be judged like any other story; they've just decided to build off of someone else's world and characters. It's flattery, really." She just smiled at my own bemused look. "A quote doesn't mean that the rest of the work is forgotten. It just wants to focus on that particular part of the work. Often times those parts which aren't shown in the quote are the subtle implications, you know."
         I shrugged, shifting the sheets of the bed around. "Perhaps."
         I jumped as she sighed melodramatically, jerking my attention back to her and my eyes up from where I sat. "To be honest, I get bored quickly. Dialogue moves me more, and I don't need to be told of what is basic routine by now. Why bother with the unnecessary?"

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    I know exactly where I want to go with it this time around but I have no interest in writing right now. Whatever, I'm going to bed.