Steven Hunley
11-10-2015, 10:42 PM
Dragon Lady
I get off and cross the tracks and climb a few stairs and find myself next to a Barnes and Noble book store. A huge poster of Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS sits in the window right next to Fitzgerald’s THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED. I feel comforted and take a picture. That’s one thing I do if I see something beautiful or ugly, dull or interesting, disquieting or comforting. I take a picture. I’m an English-teaching photo-taking fool who writes like he was on fire if only to illuminate the darkness of his mind.
No one is beyond describing, no place lies beyond my descriptive powers. Nothing is out of bounds for this writer. Beware friends of mine. The world is my pen fodder.
My only problem is I have too much imagination. I became aware of the problem when I read TYPHOON. Of the two main characters the first mate has imagination and the captain doesn’t. So one suffers because he can imagine all the various ways the ship will go down same as in LORD JIM. His imagination disables him and plays him falsely.
Then it’s up past the beer place and across the street, in through the door past security with the panache of Bond, James Bond. I’m here to take care of things and collect my booty with the same enthusiasm as Long John Silver searched for Flint’s treasure.
At Robbin's Brothers I talked to some Vietnamese woman. She wore a conservative grey suit with a slit on one side like in the World of Susie Wong. But I was certain she was Cambodian or Thai or Vietnamese or something. She was five foot worked up to five foot eight with heels. Her calves resembled a python that had just ate lunch, or Sylvester Stallone’s biceps, I couldn’t make up my mind, I was too excited. She wore a cruel countenance. I decided to call her Dragon Lady, and pretend I was in Terry and the Pirates, on accounta Pirate Girl was a pirate, too. It wasn’t all my doing, and I had faith Kismet was in on it. Love and death are always pre-arranged. What look like random events are really go-betweens.
https://youtu.be/wytLCwc03Vc Terry and the Pirates
I get off and cross the tracks and climb a few stairs and find myself next to a Barnes and Noble book store. A huge poster of Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS sits in the window right next to Fitzgerald’s THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED. I feel comforted and take a picture. That’s one thing I do if I see something beautiful or ugly, dull or interesting, disquieting or comforting. I take a picture. I’m an English-teaching photo-taking fool who writes like he was on fire if only to illuminate the darkness of his mind.
No one is beyond describing, no place lies beyond my descriptive powers. Nothing is out of bounds for this writer. Beware friends of mine. The world is my pen fodder.
My only problem is I have too much imagination. I became aware of the problem when I read TYPHOON. Of the two main characters the first mate has imagination and the captain doesn’t. So one suffers because he can imagine all the various ways the ship will go down same as in LORD JIM. His imagination disables him and plays him falsely.
Then it’s up past the beer place and across the street, in through the door past security with the panache of Bond, James Bond. I’m here to take care of things and collect my booty with the same enthusiasm as Long John Silver searched for Flint’s treasure.
At Robbin's Brothers I talked to some Vietnamese woman. She wore a conservative grey suit with a slit on one side like in the World of Susie Wong. But I was certain she was Cambodian or Thai or Vietnamese or something. She was five foot worked up to five foot eight with heels. Her calves resembled a python that had just ate lunch, or Sylvester Stallone’s biceps, I couldn’t make up my mind, I was too excited. She wore a cruel countenance. I decided to call her Dragon Lady, and pretend I was in Terry and the Pirates, on accounta Pirate Girl was a pirate, too. It wasn’t all my doing, and I had faith Kismet was in on it. Love and death are always pre-arranged. What look like random events are really go-betweens.
https://youtu.be/wytLCwc03Vc Terry and the Pirates