Mini-entry and Microfiction

[radiantfracture]

In lieu of a proper post, here is another very short bit of fiction, recorded from the archive: "A Story is a Story".

I meant to come up with a really excellent post yesterday in which to nest the offering, but I was mired in the end-of-term bog. A mind of quickmud.

Today I will be in a bus and then a helicopter and then another bus and then a boat and then a motor vehicle of some kind on my way to visit the fam for the long weekend.

Finished watching Decline and Fall with LB last night. I enjoyed it -- I was afraid Waugh would be too heartless for me to do anything but cringe, but, apart from one surprisingly gory bit, the humour-of-human-cruelty was all at a bearable level of silliness. Perhaps a bit flat at the finish.

Right, well, off on my journey.

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Comments

[wendelah1]

Today I will be in a bus and then a helicopter and then another bus and then a boat and then a motor vehicle of some kind on my way to visit the fam for the long weekend.


That's a lot of traveling. Either you live somewhere inaccessible or they do? Have a safe journey and a wonderful weekend.

[radiantfracture]

Both, I guess. I live on Vancouver Island and they live on the Sunshine Coast, and both are accessible only by crossing water. I am cheating a bit with the helicopter--it isn't strictly necessary, but it saves about two hours' travel.

[radiantfracture]

And thanks for the good wishes!

[sovay]

I enjoyed it -- I was afraid Waugh would be too heartless for me to do anything but cringe, but, apart from one surprisingly gory bit, the humour-of-human-cruelty was all at a bearable level of silliness. Perhaps a bit flat at the finish.

May I ask how so?

Have a good long weekend!

[radiantfracture]

"Flat" might be too critical -- I was on my way out the door, mentally speaking.

I think I was expecting to feel more of something by the end -- more horror, or affection, or amusement -- and instead events just more or less reset themselves, which is a perfectly reasonable ending for farce. I haven't read the source material, but I assume that's part of the original story.

If I'm going to witness suffering, I guess, even farcical suffering, I want it to mean something, even if the point is just that suffering doesn't mean anything.

But farce and I don't generally get on, which is why I was pleased to enjoy this so much.

I did laugh throughout, and I thought the lead actor did a good job of humanizing the story through his performance.

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