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Friday, March 5, 2004
Spiders
Hm. You should notice by now that my stories seem to follow a certain arc; and they also seem to have a touch that's just me. At least those of you who've read most of the short stories I've been posting on a semi-daily basis.
It usually goes something like this: Character is a fine person, and doing fine, but then something gets in the way of what lets them be them, and lets them just be what they are.
Examples: The unnamed character in "The Pig of the Machine (The Desolate Shatter and the Open Plain." At first the piece starts off fine, with the character talking about a normal day, the day that WW II ended.
Then the unknown character is driving with his mom. He's looking out the window.
Suddenly there's a big crash, and then things start getting discombolulated; things start getting stranger and stranger until the story find its end, where we see this unnamed character witnessing his mother's death.
I'm not sure if you caught this, but in the story, the character, you'll remember, had that one "vision" or whatever you want to call it of him being a pig. Remember that? And you'll also remember there was another pig with him, and it was saying something about holocaust, and something about genocide.
If you read into it enough, you'll remember his mom said he had a mental sickness as she died. How did he get the mental sickness? Reading into the story enough, you'll realize that perhaps this unnamed character actually was in the holocaust, perhaps, and it made him as disjointed as the story he tells.
So if you would say it was the holocaust this character went through (which isn't necessarily correct; you can think anything you want of the story, this is just what I found upon further looking into my own story) you could say that was what made him less like he was, it's what changed him.
I'm out of time, but the point of this post was supposed to be that a lot of the things I write are just going around in circles, in good cirdcles that reinvent themselves over and over again in their arcs.
I plan on doing a whole post dedicated to "The Pleasure and Derision of His Own," but I don't have the time now. In the post, I'll explain the story from my vantage point and ask others to give me theirs.
Maybe I should do posts about all of my short stories, explaining them and what they mean to me. I'm sure that would be interesting to some.
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