Thursday, September 17, 2015

A Bit of Writing I've Been Working On: Part 3

Another bit I'm pleased with. 

The Universe, being the result of a Divine Urge to do something creative, gives humanity many, many different forms of art in which to get lost when being set upon by life’s tragedies, horrors, and those painful periods of asphyxiating dullness. The different dimensions of art we are given to play with can be collided, woven together, or shaped into the forms that we find pleasing. For instance, a song is a collision of the dimension pertaining to music with the dimension pertaining to poetry, sometimes woven together with the dimension belonging to the art of storytelling. A book is constructed by kneading storytelling together with prose, and a film does its best to combine storytelling, music, prose, and visual art all in one pleasing enchilada of artistic imagination. And because a film, in this way, is a four-dimensional work of art, it is easy when watching a film to become lost, even if a person finds himself in the distressing circumstance of being caught in a time-warp, and coming home to discover that his fiancee is forty years older than himself.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Here's An Idea

After an intense study on the nature of humanity and of humanity's intricate relationships with fiction [AKA this is all B.S. that I'm making up without providing actual evidence], people will do anything for their fictional universe and its inhabitants. Snape can be forgiven for occasionally being a butthead because he did it all out of love; Sherlock is forgiven for occasionally being a jerk, because he's hilarious and some people are just born that way; the Winchesters can be forgiven for eliminating  kids' parents in front of them because it's their job and they had no other choice.

What I'd like to ask is, if something about me bothers you, like my beliefs on Traditional Marriage Vs. Gay Unions or my Non-Outrage re. GMOs or my overall Catholicism or my Unwithering Respect for PG Wodehouse, please think of me as a fictional character who was made that way, because that's basically what I am. Please don't jump directly to, 'she's an arrogant bigoted hypocritical moron who thinks everyone is going directly to hell without passing Go and collecting $200.' I love it when people have as much compassion on their inmates as they do on their favorite flawful fictional characters, and I promise I'll try to do the same for all you heretics. That's all I got to say about that.