Comments on: A game of checkers

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:02:08 +0000

In reply to Dave. Thanks. It's daily. The Safari update is 180M, or nearly my daily allowance. I hope soon to get a download manager working that I can task to show highM house guests to their rooms during off-peak hours when my allowance isn't at stake. I can entertain them, rested and flush the following day.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:47:25 +0000

Ah, well there you have it. Perhaps I should have taken the hint when plastic was deemed more precious than silver and gold. At any rate, I didn’t know it was a dream, and I knew it wasn’t a poem, and therefore I figured, as usual, I was missing something. It’s a problem I have with a small view with hints of the larger picture. I keep looking around the edges/corners for the rest.

I’m obviously of the ambiguity challenged ilk.

Also, there are those things you write about which are based on actual news articles that I didn’t happen to read/hear. This one had just enough hints of Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia/Afganistan etc that it haunted me.

At any rate, I liked it..and like anything well written, I wanted to know more about the characters.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:48:41 +0000

In reply to Joan. Hmm. I was hoping it might work to leave it up to the reader's imagination. I guess not. It can be risky to turn a dream into a story without eliminating some of the ambiguities.

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:58:17 +0000

Ok. At the risk of sounding dumb again. Back to the writing. I was hoping someone would else ask about this. All of this haunting story/snippet works for me except one. I’m left with the question of who the narrator is and what his relationship is to the girl. Friend, brother, former husband? I guess it’s important for me to know because the depth of his self protective silence and her “him” protective silence hinges a bit on their personal closeness.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:12:13 +0000

In reply to Bill. Hey, whoa -- congratulations! A 200M download limit? Please tell me that's daily and not monthly. If the latter, you won't be able to follow my Moving Poems site, for one thing.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:15:52 +0000

Dave, you can spare me the special considerations (though I do appreciate them!): I hocked the grandkids and got satellite. I’m still getting accustomed to my new powers – I’ve got to be wary of my 200 megabyte download limit and there are punishments for those who exceed it – but updating Safari should be a piece of cake. Yes, the speed is good. I think ease of access to Shadow Cabinet and my sudden arrival in the midst of its contents helped to make for the good read I had there. I’m enjoying a sense of timelessness.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:21:28 +0000

In reply to Bill. I'm afraid i don't remember anything I wrote more than three days ago (which is partly why I need a good search function).

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:18:39 +0000

In reply to Bill. Oh good. Yes, I imagine it must be extremely time-consuming for you to try and download new versions of Safari at dial-up speed. I have Safari for Windows, and even at 1000k/sec it takes a couple minutes.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:06:43 +0000

It was “Trip” I wanted to see. You don’t often do portraits.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:03:13 +0000

Dave, I should have tried Explorer. Everything looks better now. Your search works fine. It was definitely my Safari. Sorry about that.