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What’s this then?
It’s a journey.
Where did it start?
Right here at this desk.
Where did it finish?
Right here at this desk.
Did you go far?
A long, long way.
But never left the desk?
Exactly!
So, where did you set off to first of all?
It’s not clear from the notes but I think
it was off to the Garden Path Proverb.
Just like that? There must have been a
reason.
It might have been Snowball.
Snowball?
Or The Guardian; yes, I was reading The
Guardian and it took me into anti-proverbs.
Anti-proverbs? What are they?
The Guardian was talking about this?
Not that exactly, they were talking about
proverbs for the digital age, I think.
Got an example?
I’m lazy.
Ok, how about – ‘You only find out who is
swimming naked when the tide goes out.’
I like the one about the micro-waved fish
more.
You’ve read the article!
I have.
Then did you follow the link to
anti-proverbs, that was the next step on the journey?
I did, but then I wasn’t sure where you
went next, and the notes really aren’t clear.
Well, I took a detour literally up the
garden path into The Garden Path Sentence.
Let me guess, this has something to do with
being lead up the garden path, so taken somewhere else, distracted. Something
like that?
Deceived.
By a sentence?
‘The old man the boat.”
Ok.
So that took me off a little further, first
to Parsing then Wellerisms.
Wellerisms, like in Dickens?
Yes.
How did you get there from The Garden Path?
I went a long way down the Garden Path.
But it was a detour?
Yep, because then I jumped forward to Oulipo.
I’ve been there.
You have?
No, I was being ironic; where is it?
Not so much “where” but “who”.
Ok, who is it?
A group of people, but it included Raymond
Queneau.
In part, but from Oulipo I travelled to
Constrained Writing. That was really exciting; I visited reverse Lipograms,
Quadrivial Quandary and Bilingual Homophonic Poetry.
Homophonous.
Yes, sorry. There were a lot of signposts
in Oulipo and so many roads to travel. I got , get, confused. But really I
wanted to get to Outrapo.
Ah! Outrapo! So surely you passed through
The Collège of Pataphysique?
I wanted to join.
Which branch?
Maybe the London branch, it’s my home-town.
The London Branch has six departments and
an orchestra, which one grabbed your imagination?
Either the Museum or The Orchestra.
Can i?
Certainly, we need a development officer.
Oooh, do I get a desk?
You can use this one.
Thank you.
Of course!
Did you see the Bumble Bee Dream Capturer?
Wouldn’t you love one?
Tell me!
I took the optional excursion into
Metaphysics but really I spent more time in the field of Inutilious Research.
One can never do enough. Did you meet the curator, Dr Faustroll?
He was out, but I met his assistant –
Bosse-de-Nage.
A fine woman.
Woman?
Possibly.
I liked the idea of the Pataphysical calendar.
Thirteen months/29 days each/the 29th day being imaginary/except two?
That's the one.
Could be interesting.
It certainly says Snowball on the map, did you get there?
I did, but i'm not sure the map is a map, more of a guide, i had to hop back to Oulipo to get to Snowball.
Did you write one?
I did.
Can we see it?
Certainly -
I
(Me)
Two..
Days
Later.
Wonder?
Fearful.
Plunging
Recklesly.
You had to spell recklessly incorrectly to make that work.
I think that's ok.
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