794 Mini Sagas

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>There are many more words than you could ever wish to use! I taunt you with those words. I bellow them out into the air within your hearing in order to humiliate you. That is why you avoid me because I burden you with so many words heaping them upon your head or flinging them after you as you hurry away from me fine well-turned latinate polysyllabic Miltonic words of the kind faithfully and carefully stowed away only in dictionaries. That is where I live my rich and fulfilling life within the pages of many dictionaries with my torch and my eyeglass digging ever deeper into dictionaries preferably the old ones. I spend whole days together down there a deep-cast miner of words. Clothes mean nothing to me. Abluting this body means nothing to me - let it stink to high heaven! I have no time for such irrelevancies. There is too much steady accumulation to be done and each day offers me twenty-four hours only in which to do it. What am I to do with these words now that you have refused to listen to me now that you have left me here to my own devices? The question is an irrelevance. I do not need to justify this pursuit. When they are all present in front of ? and behind and beside ? me I need do nothing but admire their magnificence as they stretch away and away from me. These words speak for themselves.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Can you describe these seven hundred and ninety-four paragraphs as a collection of stories each of that length? Or are they more glimpses into the thoughts and feelings of other people: fleeting moments in complicated or simple lives? In modern jargon might they be called prose poems?</p><p class=ql-align-justify>No two readers will interpret them the same and probably not as the author envisaged - but isn't that the point? Doesn't fiction take on a life of its own once you set it free?</p><p class=ql-align-justify>It is perhaps a book more for dipping in and out of than one to read end-to-end and depending on your mood the weather the day of the week you will see something different something new and something outside of the story itself.</p><p> </p>