Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.I thought the constraints of the form made the prose strangely compelling. Necessity is the mother of invention is it not? ( although the problem is self created in this case ) Whether i could read a whole book of it is another matter.
Slightly tweaked version. Added a couple of lines from the story and also moved the ink blot/blood stain to a lower level as before the edge of the pattern under it was sowing as a straight line.
The brief : No writing to do this week, but a challenge to find or make an image, video or sound to accompany the following short memoir. Post just the material, no text or explanation, in this thread. Let's see how you can manage without words!
Of serious worth is the release of the Ubiquity prototype from the Mozilla Labs. Ubiquity Wrapped in dreams, I lay on the night in question tranquilly sleeping, but gradually roused to a perception that discordant sounds disturbed the serenity of my slumber. Loth to stir, I still dozed on, the sounds, however, becoming, as it seemed, more determined to make themselves heard; and I awoke to the consciousness that they proceeded from a belt of adjacent jungle, and resembled the noise that would be produced by some person felling timber.
Shutting my ears to the disturbance, I made no sign, until, with an expression of impatience,......I sank slightly into the soaked bed, the linen clinging to me like a shower curtain. Sweat dribbled from my body, pooling on my upper lip, under my adam’s apple, in my belly button. A beeping jars my attention, then the music stops - battery dead. No way.
24 hours. Air con and a cool beer.
