How to Kill an Afternoon

[Jack of Hearts]

Sometimes I look at my copy of 'The Sound and the Fury' as it stands atop my dresser and I hear the clock ticking in the hallway renumerating time lost and never to be found again. Birds chirp beyond the window's glass and their song carries in sunlight on it's back whence upon dust floats up on its way to somewhere and I get to thinking about how many ticks it's been from the hallway since I was last up and not lying on the bed useless. The novel, the sunlight, the bird's chirp, the ticks lost paralyze me in their beauty and I think if I should utter a word to anyone the spell would be lost and I would fall into a narrow pit of disillusionment, that stomach ache. Was there ever a man so sorry. Was there ever a man so sorry that he loved the ideas of paper more than the heart-flush trembling flesh sheltering another lonely soul; so sorry that he should never think his loneliness could be more alleviated by the kind touch of human tenderness rather than the written words of an author more than forty years dead.

[hillwalker]

Are you fishing for answers?

In my limited experience a man who confesses he writes usually attracts 'the kind touch of human tenderness' from the opposite sex without having to come up with any other chat-up line.....

H

[Jack of Hearts]

The writer gently notes he hadn't necessarily intended this to be a conversational thread, just a bit of lucid writing that fell out when a short story would not (hence posted here).

But thanks still, Mr. H.L. Walker.



J


Edit: This thread's prompt-
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57886

[DickZ]

That's a much better setting of the scene than I could come up with when confronted with The Sound and the Fury. That book drove me nuts until I finally caved in and quit after about a hundred pages, which I hate to do.

Your descriptions are great - just please be more careful with it's and its.

[Dark Passenger]

What time was it when you wrote it?

...D

[Buh4Bee]

I always enjoy reflective pieces as these. Sometimes it's easier to live in one's head than in reality. Isn't there some kind of difference between being lonely and solitary?

[Jack of Hearts]

Thank you DickZ, Dark Passenger and jersea. The author appreciates the time you took to read it.



And DickZ, the writer made the noted corrections.




J

[jajdude]

This reader enjoys reading almost anything the writer above writes.