[lit-ideas] Re: Existential Madlibs

Well, probably not exactly what you're looking for, but I think Sartre would 
approve.

        Once upon a time there was an astute being named Cinderella.  An acute 
observer of human angst, her perch on the edge of reality gave her a ringside 
seat into the psyche of human beings, into their isolation from each other and 
from themselves.  The universe, Cinderella knew, was an irrelevant construct.  

        Cinderella, being but a figment of a collective imagination, understood 
the uniqueness of her position.  She understood that her existence was 
meaningful because she was not born of the star stuff ordinary mortals are born 
of.  She knew that, day in and day out, trapped in her immortal coil, prized 
for her appearance, she was destined by dint of the purpose bestowed on her by 
anxious mortals in their efforts to assuage their own fears, for the 
foreseeable eternity to ameliorate the neurotic fears and needs of a handsome, 
if anxious, prince whose angst over his sense of incompleteness led him to 
imagine himself having fallen in love with her.  Still, she never grew blue or 
despondent because she knew that her life when compared to the lives of those 
born of star dust was meaningful in the extreme, and for that she was grateful. 
 She therefore enjoyed right down to her glass slippers the Meaningless Ball, 
as she lovingly called it, put up with the prince’s solicitations with good 
humor, and had a very unexistentially close spiritual bond with her fairy 
godmother.  It is hopefully clear to our gentle readers that our existential 
heroine had perfected the art of being in the world but not of it, indeed, 
perfecting the art of being in nothingness.  



-----Original Message-----
>From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 27, 2007 7:02 PM
>To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Existential Madlibs
>
>So, we're studying "Existentialism" in my class (Satre style - ew.)   
>Anyway, I've taken the story of Cinderella, and taken out various  
>nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs, to be replaced with existential  
>vocabulary, so as to generate an new story, which I've entitled  
>"Existentiarella".  So let's try it out.  Here's what I need:
>
>Adjective
>Noun
>Verb
>Noun
>Verb
>Verb
>Verb
>Adjective
>Adjective
>Verb
>Noun
>Noun
>Noun
>Adjective
>Adjective
>Verb
>Adjective
>Adjective
>Noun
>Noun
>Adverb
>Adverb
>
>You are limited to "existential" vocabluary.  Think hard now :)
>
>Erin
>Toronto
>
>
>
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