this is your captains speaking
we hopes to be back to operations of a reasonable rate in a manner of weeks
being familiar yourself with security procedures
be ready to assist neighbours, stricken children
within the mean time please find beneath your seat or in the elasticated pouch thing in the back of the seat in fronts of you a text to ponder overs in the comment boxes beneath.
the text called "someday on planar surface".a link to past statements on it >>>
the dystopian semi science fiction 'Flatland'?
ReplyDeletei enjoyed 'someday' very much, as is often the case with your short stories i had a little trouble in understanding the section just before the end, but the the 'what happened to' section made me feel all safe again.
is the implication that the people of the corridor are being controlled, led,looked after by others not much different to themselves? maybe more priviliged?
thanksyou for responding!
ReplyDelete-Well I suppose authority in the end is an economic system between tangible/intangible and we are bits of the products, tools and legal tender that circulate within the confines imposed.
-That would apply to all events in all places . . . ?
I am more interested in your unadulterated interpretations of the text, hence perhaps the rorsach test-like bits near the ending. Bend them to your will.
well it's like life isn't it? one long corridor with intermittant queing and concerns over money.
ReplyDeleteit's all seems to be about base drives to me. why we do what we do as human animals/behave as such. we are all much of a muchness after all. the differences are all in the presntation.
in the world of 'someday' there is little to do, so base drives are readily apparent (in the real world we have games and pastimes and all manner of distractions which serve to disguise these drives because we are ashamed of them and our reptilian brains)
but this is a postapocalypse genre element, right? take away our TVs and see how human we can be.
and we see in 'someday' the characters as children being taught the proper way to behave, all those things we're taught as children to help prevent us from being spontaneous and literal and true. but your writing doesn't judge this situation as such, saying it is good or bad, just that it seems to be case
there is something about it that does seem to suggest that it needn't be so.
hello.
ReplyDeletethere is no apocalypse element in the current work.
"Flatliners" should have made the afterlife like "flatland", instead of guilt and ghosts.
yes yes i realise that, please do not think i was making some kind of assumption
ReplyDeleteoh no no, no need to worry. Just thought should make it clear.
ReplyDeleteAnd my view of what it is or isn't may not be any truer
Everyone else is at their local discoteque. It is barely forgiveable
ReplyDeleteI have wished upon special candles that others will come and give their opinion of the work "someday on planar surface".
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with people that they won't read 33 pages anymore?
ah, this has all been a hopeless, slightly embarasing trial.
ReplyDeleteI can't spell anymore, embaress isn't right either.
Oh, OK, embarrass . That looks wrong. What a peculiar word that it.