Imagine, if you would, that you are stood in the doorway looking into a room of about fifteen feet square; the room itself is dark, but light from behind you illuminates it to some extent.
And imagine that this light is reflected back at you from what seems to be hundreds of strands of that shiny narrow ribbon used to tie birthday presents suspended from the ceiling; (I haven’t done an accurate calculation, but you should assume that each ribbon is hung no more than a few inches from its neighbours). The ribbons (silver? red? blue? – you can choose) differ in length, their ends between one and three feet from the floor, and tied to each is a tiny, shiny CD, each scribble-patterned surface glinting. Diagonally across the room, on the opposite wall, is another doorway; there is no light beyond but you are able to pick out its somewhat indistinct outline.
Your task (of course there’s a task!) is to make your way across the room through the hanging ribbons, as directly or indirectly as you please, to the other doorway, and on your way you must randomly collect at least six and no more than ten of these CDs, which you cut from the ribbons with the scissors provided (warning: scissors are a sharp pointed instrument).
On reaching the far doorway it becomes possible to read the words that are written on your CDs, whereupon you discover that common to each is the word ‘love’, the other words - song titles or phrases from songs – will, when taken together, give as good and authoritative a definition of love as you are likely to find anywhere.
[Successful submission to Love6S]
Thursday, 25 February 2010
6S Truth, daring and developing ideas
While knowing that I could write, in the manner of 'can't everyone?' since I inevitably assume that if I can do it must be easy, I hadn't really considered myself to be 'a writer' as such, not quite considering the writing up of research in the same category. 6S, mentioned by Julia, looked interesting, became addictive and once I'd joined inspired me to try different voices. Now writing is taking over. My first post on 6S, Truth or Dare, referred to my 'boringly pedantic' style and expressed the hope that I would 'circumvent my instincts, dare to escape from the bounds of the proven, and colour in some of the monochrome facts which beg to be illuminated.' Not straying too far from reality was important but by adding 'a little bit of fantasy icing to the rich historical cake' of resource material - especially Tom's photo albums - has been truly satisfying for me.
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