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Home she gets and there,
among books she stays.
Feet over the couch,
Table for tea and on her knees the crumbs.
Out she goes and surrounded by tales she works.
Describing every fish and stone, the words.
A lily or headpiece.
A meaningful stream of sorts.
She reaches her hand,
By size or hue,
Flickering they come.
Endless, in white.
Inky and not finite.
Comet like, frail stars.
And as she turns back,
At infinite dark damned waters she stares large.
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Quería decirle: mira, la vida de los gnomos y duendes es desagradable, brutal y breve. Ellos también.Quería decirle todo eso, pero no pudo. Dosflores deseaba ver el infinito, pero en realidad nunca salía de los límites de su propia cabeza. Decirle la verdad sería como dar una patada a un perro de aguas.
Rincewind piensa. La luz fantástica. Terry Pratchett.
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The order of elements does affect the result
And here I am again trying to mix what looks like water and oil… Let’s start with the most obvious of questions.
WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? OXFORD DEFINITION
This time, since I’m consulting a digital online version —so I can just copy-paste instead of typing, the dictionary is an Oxford and not my loyal Merriam Webster.
sequence /ˈsiːkw(ə)ns/
I. noun
1. a particular order in which related things follow each other • the content of the programme should follow a logical sequence • [ mass noun ] the poems should be read in sequence .
2. [Music] a repetition of a phrase or melody at a higher or lower pitch. • a restless search for interesting harmonic sequences.
3. [Biochemistry] the order in which amino-acid or nucleotide residues are arranged in a protein, DNA, etc. • these are enzymes which will cleave only at specific base sequences in the DNA.
4. a set of related events, movements, or items that follow each other in a particular order
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6. [Mathematics] an infinite ordered series of numerical quantities.
No, this isn’t useful yet. And I’ll have to translate and apologize for, I don’t remember what book this is from.
WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? MATHEMATICS’ POV
<<In Mathematics, a succession or whole sequence is a whole numbers succession (in other words, an ordered list). A whole succession can be specified explicitly through a formula for their n-th terms; or implicitly by establishing a correspondence among its terms. E.g. An implicit description for the Fibonacci succession 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13… would be; “a succession is one to start with the numbers 0 and 1; adding two of the consecutive numbers to obtain the following one”>>.
Things begin to make sense. But it is not enough yet….
TO BE CONTINUED
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Je veux de être le renard.
Je veux de regarder la mer et pensant que je regard ton yeux.
Noirs? La profondeur mere.
Bleus? La couleur de la surface.
Vertes? Le changeume eau.
Le couleur est rien.
Je veux de être apprivoiser.
Je veux de savoir que tu est ici.
Une heure de toujours.
Un toujours de les jours.
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¿qué tiene de malo la lectura? Nada, por supuesto. Pero una vez que asignamos un valor intelectual al acto en sí, no solo pasamos por alto la naturaleza del propio texto, sino que convertimos en universal y unidimensional algo que en esencia es un proceso de participación privado.
Contra la lectura. Mikita Brottman. Blackie books. [The Solitary Vice (Counterpoint, 2008)].
Asignar un valor intelectual a una actividad, la que sea, constituye ir en contra de la idea de la libertad de expresión. Condenar o apreciar una actividad más que otra sólo porque le asignamos una etiqueta, es ir en contra de la individualidad y la diferencia. ¿Escribes pensando cómo tu escritura afecta la idea de las actividades individuales y sus etiquetas?
Pasto kalo.
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The female of the species. Mindy McGinnis. Harper Collins.
I get it. Decent guys backslide into meth and gang rape. Good guys knock up their girlfriends and flip burgers.
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Rain came upon,
I was aware cold was to follow.
Hence I was waiting blossoms to pop.
What I got was rotting,
nothing more.
Am I strong enough to keep sending seeds to the wind?
To patiently seek them sprouts?
Shouldn't I just declare defeat and about?
Lo topo [traducción del español al español: Entiendo]. Los tipos decentes recaen con la metanfetamina y violan en manada. Los chicos buenos embarazan a su novia y se vuelven responsables volteando hamburguesas.
The female of the species. Mindy McGinnis. Harper Collins.
ALWAYS HORIZONTAL
Safeguarded by a really strict monk order, horizontality is, rarely broken in text with exception of a few covers and titles. Graphic editorial design won’t allow that much. Either because of tradition or because we; the readers can be really particular about what’s comfortable when reading. Europeans say sans serifs are the ultra comfort. Me, short sighted and astigmatic to top; I can’t read anything without serifs. It is easier for me to complete by Gestalt a shape that has bolder strokes in a side than a series of lines my mind will confuse with a block1.
BALANCE
I have already started talking direction. Horizontality. Verticality. It all starts with balance. What’s the most usual position for a human body to be in balance?
Standing up! Or asleep in bed. Horizontal or vertical, balance is all about what we do without falling. And yes, I’m speaking strange terms in a blog about writing fiction. No arches, no genres, no metaphors. Visual direction.
… Then, the most stable shapes out there are | y _. Any shape deviating some grades from that and we will have unbalance. Unbalance is a disaster! It means STRESS. Consequently, it creates an illusion: movement. Shapes breaking this convention seem to be about to fall, therefore, we think they’re moving. Unbalance is the trick to create movement whenever we’re dealing with image.
That can’t happen in poetry? By creating spaces, we create movement. Spaces can break the balance if we know how to break it. Of course, the rest of literature media is not as forgiving when altering the balance. Text is boxed into a “text frame” with blank spaces called margins —oh, we’re seeing the contour—or columns.
Text, text has to be encased into balance or we will panic.
Remember, this is nonsense and “Together, the physical and the psychological are relative and not absolute2”.
Have fun thinking if you’re to use straight, wavy or broken lines. Have fun breaking balance. Pasto kalo.