CHARACTER
Pull down the curtains on a bad play
And bring down hope from the sky.
Open the curtains to the scene of a great play,
Scripted by the playwright of a dream.
Reveal Daimon:
Let the lines flow from your heart
And act on impulse
To reach the state of Wu Wei,
Allowing life to flow.
By B.X.C. MegaSonic
George Orwell once wrote an essay entitled “Why I Write, ” beginning, “From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”
My motivation to write differs from Orwell’s drastically. I did not read much when I was young and I did not write well. I eventually turned to writing to sort out my thoughts, but now I write because of a purpose. This purpose drives me to find ways to change the world, and writing serves this purpose. However, Orwell wrote from within a self-nature and changed the world. I am writing to change the world but have gained a self-nature to write instead.
Citing fiction is merely a round-a-bout process of citing non-fiction. That is, the reference to another person’s thoughts, which are real whether fact or opinion. It is certainly a mistake to believe fiction can give us statistics, but to assume information based on the fictional works of a number of authors is not really different from assuming something based on a yes/no poll. In fact, the former may be more useful in a number of situations since yes/no polls offer no explanations, no additional input, and no interpretation on part of the sample. Reality is much more complex than a simple yes or no, and fiction is deeply embedded in reality.
The idea of citing fiction often can easily be criticized as too abstract. One can only try to understand what an author was truly thinking or what a passage truly meant. Yet, one reason for citing a literary work of fiction or non-fiction is to back up a statment or presented argument. Words and numbers have a strong history of being pulled out of context or twisted. Other proof, aside from the hard facts, other proof must be coupled to make the strongest argument possible. in this way, fiction can be just as effective. And depending on the audience maybe more so, considering the impact of the fictional styles on human emotion as compared to the raw language often used with words of fact.
The Language of the whispering wind lends me a handful of beautiful words;
borrowed and borrowed, I am indebted to the air that has sewn together my poetry.
But is it just to rely on the coming storm to make my emotions flow onto paper?
Without the hurricane my thoughts are limited,
and the stanzas from my mind are dull.
The eye of my poems do not lie within the eye of the hurricane.
I find my perfect outlet in the calamitous wall,
where the wind whispers louder than the shouts of my strongest thoughts.
-By Benjamin Collins
Yeah, yeah. I like to write poetry. I don’t write very often but this is fairly old and since the blog is new it might be stacked with poetry for a while. Anyway, this is based on some Sega Genesis games. See if you can guess the titles, it shouldn’t be too hard. Look at the tags for the answers. Every line but two has a corresponding game.
There is a shout in the night
“all your base are belong to us”
an ‘echo’ reaches the depths of the ocean
The force of thunder rages outside
and the sound of bass drums barrel like a calling for evil as a contraption approaches
A Dark Force is behind the mayhem,
the streets are filled with rage,
it is time to escape.
-Egress-
 | CosmoSonic on Where do Superman’s Clot… |
 | mohammedsarfraz on Bruce Lee the poet |
 | detrich on What is a handicap? |
 | Michael on Where do Superman’s Clot… |
 | Kyle on Seizures |
 | JB on The Black Quarterback |
Megasonic's Weblog 