152. 16 June 2019
Later, on a rainy Sunday morning. The first word to pop in your head as you cranked up the computer was "story". - Amorella
1118 hours. That's what I was thinking last night before sleep. I wanted to reiterate that this blog is really a fictional story in a diary-like format. Presently it is reminding me a bit of Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
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You may also include Wilder’s "Our Town". - Amorella
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Our Town
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Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
Throughout, Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the actual theatre where it is being performed. The main character is the stage manager of the theatre who directly addresses the audience, brings in guest lecturers, fields questions from the audience, and fills in playing some of the roles. The play is performed without a set on a mostly bare stage. With a few exceptions, the actors mime actions without the use of props.
Our Town was first performed at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey in 1938. It later went on to success on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It remains popular today and revivals are frequent.
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1149 hours. This is where the concepts of this blog come from as well as from my many year blog "Encounters in Mind". I have no doubt left many concepts out but assume they are scattered about within 'Encounters'.
I agree, orndorff. You cannot possibly remember where all the concepts have come from having lived seventy-six years of experience so far. - Amorella
2203 hours. I assume I am the stage manager from what I read above.
Rightly so, you are the only one living. - Amorella
2205 hours. Closer to the truth, I am the stage.
You've hit it right on the button, boy. - Amorella
2206 hours. As in the line, "All the world's a stage."
Correct again. All the "I's" of the world are the stage. Their heartsanminds plus two imaginary spirits, a soul and another spirit. - 'twere in one, 'twere in all'. - Amorella
2215 hours. In this work I am as the 'alone' in everyone.
No, boy. You are first the stage and set. You have long stated that you are mostly fiction, so this is an excellent stage to wish for something more and not discover it here. - Amorella
2218 hours. Such a dark humor.
A stellar humor is it not? - Amorella
2223 hours. It is, to be sure. Such a pleasure to laugh with it without a sense of irony.
Tomorrow will be busy. Tuesday you leave for Tampa and Madeira Beach once more and to be returned by July, hopefully alive and well.
2228 hours. I wish for nothing more for the world than for it to be alive and well.
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