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FWR Posted Oct 24, 2017
The man fron Delaware opened the orange carrier bag and inspected the items he'd just bought from the seventh most populat hardware store in Bexhill.
Ducking into a service alley on the Ravenside Industrial Park, he carefully unrolled the sheets of acetate and unscrewed the top from the silver automotive touch up kit.
Slipping off his left brogue he recovered the folded maps he'd drawn earlier. Carefully tracing lines, shoulders shielding his work from the still falling rain.
He smiled gently as he gazed down at his finished work. Unseeing he believed himself unseen, as he glued two pieces of the transparent material together, grinning as he held up the perfect silver dragonfly.......
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FWR Posted Oct 25, 2017
The perfect silver dragonfly launched from the man from Delaware's hand, effortlessly seeking an up-draught despite the still pouring rain.
He watched as it grew smaller and smaller with altitude, finally disappearing into the light.
The Light was ecstatic as the silver winged creature appeared and settled on top of a pile of technical drawings.
All was well, all transgressions against perfection eliminated.
The Light placed the dragonfly in line with the several trillion that already lined this Place. Each insect's wing patterns mapping out a new world, a new reality.
The Light was truly please with the One known simply as the man from Delaware.
Not only had imperfection been eliminated, but this new reality had been given a great gift.
The Light looked down upon Heavy Leslie and saw that it was good.
In the shadows Darkness laughed.
"All that just to stop Sabbath's seventh album being made?
" I am joyful that there is now a reality without Technical Ecstasy yes!"
"My turn!" The Darkness looked down upon Creations and pondered the next Great Evil.
In a beautiful garden in Delaware, a quite man sat, wood shavings and sawdust on his brogues, as he concentrated on the sublime carving of an owl in flight.
He reluctantly put down his chisel and rubbed at his jaw. Toothache again.
The garden vanished and the man from Delaware found himself ankle deep in snow, the sounds of amplified yodelling coming from the small village on the hillside.........
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cactuscafe Posted Oct 25, 2017
Oh yes!!!! Yes! Yes!! Superb! Wonderful!
Wowzum. FWR just wrote the story. What a masterpiece. Beautiful writing. The chapter in the Ravenside Industrial Park, with the sheets of acetate, the folded maps in the brogue, the silver dragonfly, made me cry. Really.
And all this came from a conversation about Lewes Sussex, Lewes Delaware, the name De La Warr which led to Bexhill, The Pennsylvania sea coast, the birth of Heavy Leslie, and quite a lot of other things. .
And in my case, one too many glasses of Spanish brandy because thoughts of Guy Fawkes were making me feel faint. (that's my excuse, and I'll stick to it.)
All that's left to do now, if this masterpiece is destined to take wing beyond this thread, is to recruit a brilliant writer.. hint hint.. to write the start of the story, based on, yet somehow avoiding, the cc Brandy Scripts. .
The man from Delaware, a quiet craftsman, is also this amazing shamanic, interdimensional traveller, which is tough for him sometimes, but that's the way it is.
Isn't it strange, we never gave him a name. I love it that way. I think a name would limit him.
And now onto thoughts about the multiverse, bats, and the people from h2g2 who know how to make movies.
When I've unpacked the shopping, cleaned my studio, hung out the washing, paid the gas bill and lots of other things.
Damn.
The Other Life is so annoying. .
Laters ....
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 25, 2017
I loved this story, which was like at CC story, but also like an FWR story...
Yes, somebody put the whole thing together and send it to . We might even attach the music to it and make the whole thing fancy.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 25, 2017
Please be advised that just because you typed 'free' into the google search line doesn't mean that the images the search engine tossed up are actually Public Domain.
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ITIWBS Posted Oct 25, 2017
Understood.
However, I didn't type it in.
Instead it came up out of the web site
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FWR Posted Oct 25, 2017
Street maps for my dragonfly wing veins I'm thinking...just need CC to put the brandy away and finish the beginning....or open a bottle and finish the beginning!
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ITIWBS Posted Oct 25, 2017
To be sure, Pennsylvania hasn't got everything, like California, from high alpine permafrost (The last of last year's seasonal snowfall on Mt. San Gorgonio melted off this month.) to subtropical lagoons, to vast expanses of desert, prairie and primeval forest.
Its not for nothing, though, that Pennsylvania hosted the USA's first national capital and still hosts the mint.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 25, 2017
Or that George Washington wanted to put the capital near Pittsburgh, in Perrysville.
Can you imagine it? We could throw politicians off cliffs, like the Romans did with the Tarpeian Rock.
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ITIWBS Posted Oct 25, 2017
Perrysville would probably not have been sacked and burned in the War of 1812.
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ITIWBS Posted Oct 25, 2017
True, and running the guantlet in that part of Pennsylvania would have been rather daunting.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 25, 2017
Oh, how true. Belligerent would have been putting it mildly. I've been reading local accounts from back then. If the Scots Irish hadn't got them, the bears might have.
People think I'm kidding about finding it. folks in Pittsburgh just nod when you say, 'I came down to visit so-and-so, and I got lost three times.' Even GPS doesn't always do the trick.
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cactuscafe Posted Oct 25, 2017
Evening all!
A streetmap for the veins in the dragonfly wings, that is so artistically gorgeous I might have to lie down.
What?? Me writing the first bit of the story?? Oh no, boss, you're writing it. . Or Mr D.
I said I was looking to recruit a writer, 'cos I'm not really up to stitching together the first bit with the second bit.
. This project is hilarious. I love it.
See, here's what happened. I was going on about Bexhill, having a rather interesting flashback from 1967, to Sackville Rd, where the dentist was.
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, you appeared, and asked Dmitri if he could play Mr Crowley on the Leslie organ, whilst dressed in a black cape.
The juxtaposition of realities was so hilarious, I just started writing a waking dream, the way I do, putting the two realities together. Before we knew it, we were in the Pavilion, and the rest is history.
However it then started turning into a real story, 'cos you're brilliant like that, and we all started making notes, and I was on about diagrams.
I think, though, the first bit needs to be written in the same kind of voice as the middle and the end, like your voice, or Dmitri's voice, and I'm out of my depth.
And my waking dream was probably just for its time, somehow you have to start it all off, get whatever characters you want to wherever you want them to go.
If you want, like.
Otherwise, erm.. we'll have to advertise. For what? For a writer. Who understands the events on this thread.
And ...
Oh, supper. Damn. I will get to the bats, the movies, the multiverse.
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