h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...written anything onsite for a while, so I thought I'd add a little tidbit, but I'm still not sure if it works It was a tad more grisly than I intended!

A. Wiggin in the Lake District

Today, I went to the Lake District
And this is what I saw:

The largest giant I have ever seen.
He lies outstretched from horizon to horizon.
Dead and decaying.

A great ridge forms his arm,
Coated in a forest of lichen
Sucking the dampness out of his veins
Standing upright as goosebumps.

Upon which, lies his head:
A great gouge brings shards of bone
And gouts of blood.
Specks of brain litter his hair, ageing it.
Out of the injury emerge huge maggots,
Shovelling out yet more of his essence: he becomes
The landscape with every exchange.

His legs are splated,
At weird unnatural angles,
Pushed back by a ribbon of blood.
He is covered by a patchwork quilt:
A network of partitions, each containing a
Different story.
He is pegged down by it: unable to move.

And myself: What am I?
I am an ant, crawling and squirming
Over a premature, rotting body.

Very good ! Nice and bloody !!!

Haven't spoken in a while FwT - how are you ?

What's a "Wiggin" ?



Perry.

Oh and btw, being an ACE and all you'll know this - is there a Films/Movie discussion forum on here ?

Is the giant a metaphor for a natural outcropping or something? Or were you just in a 'rotten' mood?

Hey Perry! Film talk would be at the Collective: a sister site talking about books, film, music etc. You can either search for it, or I can find you an address!

I'm fine: had internet problems but hopefully they've all been ironed out now!

Yeah H! The Giant isn't real, but a part of the landscape. I went to the Lake District about a month ago, and just thought up the concept whilst I was there, and wrote it when I got back. It mentions A. Wiggin, or Andrew Wiggin [sound familiar ], or Ender because of his giant thing in the Orson Scott Card books...

Yes I've heard of the use of these meterphors, very interesting to write about..

-- DoctorMO --

Ah! how refreshing, some one else who writes poetry, look forward to more, maybe not so grusome though!
Smudger,

Hi Hypatia

There are giants in the landscape, and dragons, if you approach it with the eyes of a child. Try looking from a high place and it will not be long before you spot their slumbering forms.

Blessings,
Matholwch /|\.

Dragons? That best not be a Welsh-ism Math!

Of course there are giants and dragons. And elementals - especially in the garden. But I have trouble with the leprechauns.

FwT, when you describe the giant rotting, are you referring to modern society? Or a renewal of natural forces?

I thought it was harking back to the Norse creation myth. In such an analogy, the ant might represent the first human. Though, as I recall, the skull became the sky, and his brains the clouds... so I was certainly wrong.

I'm getting the first Ender books from a friend pretty soon, so I'll soon understand why his name was in the title. The only 'giant' I know about is Bean, who apparently grew so large that he could no longer sustain himself.

- Jordan

No Fred, that'd be Y Draig.

Blessings,
Matholwch /|\.

What intended was a lack of regard for the landscape...though a lot of your interpretations make me sound soo much more intelligent, so yep I meant them all along

Sorry, but with poetry you aren't allowed to mean anything straightforward or simple. I've often thought that the philosophical insights we read into some poems is a bunch of c**p. Maybe a poem about daffodils is actually about daffodils. What a concept!

My dad would heartily agree with you...

...however a lot of eng. lit. professor's would be crying into their beards [not gender-specific ] if you told them that.

Well,Eng. lit profs are in a world of their own anyway. I think they spent their last lifetimes on a different planet. This is probably a blasphemous thing for a librarian to say, but there are so many important things to occupy a person's time, why waste it arguing about books by dead authors? Who cares? Either you enjoy a book or a poem or you don't. Let's try finding a cure for world hunger or aids or try to find a peaceful solution to the Palestinian issue.

Have the Library Police caught you yet?

*looks furtively over her shoulder*

You didn't turn me in did you?