Re: Can I Get Your Input Please

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Ned:

Do you write science fiction on the side? Like wow,
man.  :-)


--- Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote:

> Peter Neilson wrote:
> > Hemstreet, Deborah wrote:
> > 
> >> 4) Who benefits by your NOT being hired?
> > 
> > Somewhere in the upper reaches of the company
> someone said, "[Name of 
> > Blessed Lord and Saviour]!!! We can't have him
> doing that! The 
> > proverbial stuff will hit the proverbial rotating
> device! Stop him." The 
> > writer's manager is trying to do that.
> > 
> > Continuing the quasi-religious theme, the company
> has a Left Hand and a 
> > Right Hand, and the two parts cannot know what
> each other are doing. 
> > Perhaps one is devoted to upholding the Company's
> Ethics in public, 
> > while the other part assiduously lies, cheats and
> steals. The writer has 
> > inadvertently applied to work for the Other Hand.
> > 
> > Somewhere on our vast Planet (or three, for those
> who'll accept 
> > off-planet gigs) there is a better company. Go for
> it!
> 
> 
> 
> I read that last sentence and thought it said
> "Somewhere on our vast 
> Planet for three...", and I thought "Boy, Peter's
> outdone himself this 
> time!" Easily fooled, my mind bought right into the
> scenario and 
> provided details: your lucid dreamscape is stark
> white, a featureless 
> place except for the three, all seated on the same
> side of a round 
> meeting table. The managers' chairs are pushed back
> from the table, 
> facing each other, and Rick, sweaty head in hands,
> sits with elbows on 
> table, staring off to the horizon. The scene is
> frozen, there's no 
> animation except the sound a very loud Thomas wall
> clock suspended in 
> the air beyond the table, ticking v-e-r-y
> s=l=o=w=l=y. Everything on 
> Planet 43 is indistinguishable from two-dimensional
> cut-outs.
> 
> Please, Peter. What does this imagery you're filling
> my head with mean?
> 
> --Ned ("and they looked like Dali, Sartre, and
> Bradbury. Honest.")
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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