[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Wotsit, Fixed
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:28:45 -0700
On Aug 14, 2011, at 11:23 AM, David Ritchie wrote:
> I've never seen a wotsit with a link in to a podcast, so you'll find at the
> end of para number uno "The Icebreaker Episode." Within that episode, there's
> an Irish woman telling a joke. If you're anything at all like me it's
> possible that in addition to smiling with the joke (it's the one that
> finishes, "why are we speaking Spanish?") you'll begin to wonder how and why
> it is that some Irish people can be roundabout, un-modern, so not
> to-the-point in their speech and yet remain charming, engaging, very much
> present in the trickly tapestry of today.
> http://www.publicradio.org/columns/dinnerpartydownload/
>
> One section of the newspaper yesterday was on about a re-birth of floor
> coverings. "Go out and buy carpets," was the gist of it, the bottom line,
> the take-home message. In a related piece--people will read more, the theory
> goes, if stuff is arranged thematically--an interior designer advised me to
> buy books. "Ah-ha," I thought, ever ready to applaud those who are in favor
> of what I do. She continues, "take the covers off and stack them by color."
> This, she explained, in addition to making you seem smart, will brighten up
> any home.
>
> A second article said how to go about painting the interior of your garage.
> On the day that I consider painting the walls, ceiling and floor of my
> garage, I will know that I have finally read everything.
>
> I survey, in lordly manner, my current floor covering--many stacks of
> books--and wonder if I should attempt to re-arrange them. By color, say.
>
> Having eaten a bit of a Voodoo doughnut (my annual one) and not an apricot or
> a walnut or something that expert study proves will help me live longer, I
> gather to me an taste of Tempranillo, the one from Trader Joe, with the pig
> flying pig on the label, and settle to considering plot. For those of us who
> like the sound of words, numpties who swirl them as one would wine, people
> who dub others "miscreants" just for the fun of the term, for us the
> discipline of plot and form are difficult. We are diverted by assonance and
> dissonance and happy association.
>
> And yet I love a well-wrought mystery, which is to say a mystery that has
> exactly the right form and is just a little different from all the other
> mysteries I've read. It's not all about plot, though. Hollywood addresses
> this problem with slightly odd faces, casting people whose features are not
> completely symmetrical. Witness Owen Thingy's broken nose or that of Gerard
> Depardieu. What a world it would be if when actors ate Voodoo, the fat from
> the doughnut was deposited in those parts of the nose that most need
> attention. Doughnut surgery substitute; it's a thin premise, but it just
> might work.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland,
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