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Chris, Chris, Chris....I have just had a great idea for a Contest!!!
What about we all write our own epitaphs.
What do you want to be inscribed on your Tombstone?
For instance:-
Omar Kaayam (whom I do commend to you Chris and Mr. P)
Had as his epitaph:-
If I this life upon a looser creed
Did loosely thread the jewel of good deed
This One thing for my antonement plead...
That one for two, I never did misread,,,
Spike Milligan had:-
See, I told you I was Ill!!!
Two young boys who died on a school outing had as their epitaph a well-known line from an old bizarre comedy series...Monty Python's Flying Circus...Google it if you haven't heard of it.
Their epitaph was:-
And now for something completely different!!!!
What would you have for your epitaph????
_________________ Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try. Dr. Seuss
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Okay. How about if the contest were to write a fictional short story in the form of a booktalk string where all characters' resemblances to actual people living or virtual would be purely coincidental?
_________________ "Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words so that I can talk with him?"
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Here's another idea. What if the contest were to write an essay based on just one word. You would see how interesting and rich -- with etymology, history, changed connotations in social contexts of use in literature and life, change of meaning over time -- you could make it. Just one word. The person with the most exciting essay on a word would win.
_________________ "Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words so that I can talk with him?"
-- Chuang-Tzu (c. 200 B.C.E.)
as quoted by Robert A. Burton
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One more and then I will stop. You could start a story with a really strange, question-begging line and give the prize to the people who could finish the story in a certain (short) number of words in the most creative ways: funniest, most dramatic, most engimatic yet saitisfying -- whatever features you liked. Example:
"The kidnapping of the school mascot had been momentarily eclipsed in the tumult surrounding Ms. Whittaker's horrifying indiscretion at the assembly, when suddenly...." Or something like that. I'm not attached to it; it's just an example.
_________________ "Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words so that I can talk with him?"
-- Chuang-Tzu (c. 200 B.C.E.)
as quoted by Robert A. Burton
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Thanks for these awesome suggestions!
Quote: "I'm not attached to it."
For some reason this cracked me up.
Glad to oblige, Chris, glad to oblige. Finally, after all this time and effort, I have cracked Chris up at last.
I tell you, you are one tough house, too. It's a great day.
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I'd be glad to create a few cryptograms for you.
But y'know I have another idea . . .
How about taking a fairly well known piece of fiction (contestant's choice) and picking an obscure character from the story - the butler, the coachman or the crossing guard outside a school.
Take that character and give him/her a real 'part' . . . actually write something.
I'd be inclined to do something with some of the War and Peace characters - the ones that just pop in there, don't even have a name. Or if they do, you forget it soon.
I often do that when I'm reading a book for discussion - I pick up on somebody in the story and write short pieces having to do with their thoughts, actions . . . then I put them up for a 'daily write' at WBBS, or Poem Train (where I've been known to write prose).
Rarely do people guess where I got the idea for the character's story.
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