tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post4574772752824978232..comments2024-01-27T20:23:45.771+00:00Comments on Sulci Collective: Basic Geometry - Friday FlashSulci Collectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-48036965300799984962011-07-10T21:13:36.909+01:002011-07-10T21:13:36.909+01:00This feels pretty much like a kid playing with a l...This feels pretty much like a kid playing with a lego set. Funny how the way one tells a story is as important as the story itself, no? Perhaps even more important?Marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303695124956391293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-72498650952731212002011-07-09T15:05:08.923+01:002011-07-09T15:05:08.923+01:00Right, where's my Lego...?
I love the way you...Right, where's my Lego...?<br /><br />I love the way you've captured that sense of boundless invention and wonder that comes from playing with what is essentially such a simple toy, but underneath lies the threat of what such invention could truly devise.Icy Sedgwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11501193571425442406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-5715062938343261552011-07-09T10:25:52.388+01:002011-07-09T10:25:52.388+01:00Riding headlong into the next line was a virtual c...Riding headlong into the next line was a virtual compulsion. Well written as always. Your last line just made me sit back and gulp. Thanks, terrific stuff.<br /><br />Take care,<br />JCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-32187162770131806692011-07-09T09:47:40.581+01:002011-07-09T09:47:40.581+01:00Quite brilliant as usual. I would like to know the...Quite brilliant as usual. I would like to know the idea you had behind it. A beautiful design perhaps? The creation of the universe?Mandy K Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05107477886064281756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-30556475525850763392011-07-09T00:08:51.700+01:002011-07-09T00:08:51.700+01:00I found this really intriguing. The structure gave...I found this really intriguing. The structure gave it a momentum that built with the tower... I definitely related it to either an autistic pre-verbal child or toddler, but the ending obviously made me think of 9/11. Well written :D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-10723663749375950992011-07-08T21:47:22.591+01:002011-07-08T21:47:22.591+01:00Hmmm, is this a beautiful homage to imagination an...Hmmm, is this a beautiful homage to imagination and play or a horrific transcript of impending doom?<br /><br />You are eventually going to tell us what your idea was, right?Tim VanSant Writeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17614259042362664840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-65130572559871283122011-07-08T21:20:05.167+01:002011-07-08T21:20:05.167+01:00My son would keelhaul me if he thought this was in...My son would keelhaul me if he thought this was in any way about him! I'm really interested in what people are reading into this, so different from the idea I had in my head, but I'm delightedSulci Collectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-35461949095303491542011-07-08T21:12:08.479+01:002011-07-08T21:12:08.479+01:00Quite an ode to your son, I love the structure you...Quite an ode to your son, I love the structure you've adopted for this piece. Epic, its in own right:)Anne Michaudhttp://annecmichaud.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-59588094525136414632011-07-08T20:11:10.406+01:002011-07-08T20:11:10.406+01:00Love it, especially the last line!Love it, especially the last line!Virginia Moffatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12071059148315715405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-50581614113144985242011-07-08T19:56:59.731+01:002011-07-08T19:56:59.731+01:00"He cannot abide the overhang"
The need..."He cannot abide the overhang"<br /><br />The need for perfection, even as we experiment, never really exists, does it? Difficult lesson here, but cunningly played out here. <br /><br />I think of Daedalus building mazes to hold mythic beasts. And we know how THAT turned out. <br />XAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-60143250155871587542011-07-08T12:48:37.583+01:002011-07-08T12:48:37.583+01:00Cool poem - and love the structure just like the l...Cool poem - and love the structure just like the lego bricks - niceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-64829592699704836282011-07-08T07:11:20.577+01:002011-07-08T07:11:20.577+01:00You are very clever with the use of words, the rhy...You are very clever with the use of words, the rhythm holds all the way through this piece.<br /><br /> So this child, boy, man builds towers to see if he can create something stable.<br /><br />I had mixed images in my mind when reading this, from that of a small child, learning from each fall his tower makes, to the man trying to perfect a skill right down to that last sentence "Thus is the groundplan of hell laid down in his mind" which left me wondering if a terrorist was about to be born.<br /><br />As always your writing is excellent and thought provoking.Helenhttp://helen-scribbles.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-37298139537840315982011-07-08T06:21:13.770+01:002011-07-08T06:21:13.770+01:00I got a real strong sense that the narrator of thi...I got a real strong sense that the narrator of this isn't a child, but rather an engineer trying to bring himself back to his childhood. Real interesting as an engineer myself...<br /><br />I always seem come away from your work with a nifty impression.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16518183823230864763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-21465287968774561572011-07-08T05:09:13.696+01:002011-07-08T05:09:13.696+01:00An epic poem! LOL Like the rhythm of it!An epic poem! LOL Like the rhythm of it!Sonia Lalhttp://storytreasury.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-24031037851250841912011-07-08T01:51:28.854+01:002011-07-08T01:51:28.854+01:00Quite the epic Jenga story. Er, poem. I love the s...Quite the epic Jenga story. Er, poem. I love the structure of this, just like a Jenga tower, and the verbage, wonderful as always. Peace...Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110078016784294934noreply@blogger.com