VOTING: "RIVER OF MNEMOSYNE"
The river flow has stopped! Get out of the water and vote on your favorite entry.
Vote for your FAVORITE in the comments. Remember, you must have submitted a Muse 1 AND a Muse 2 in order to be able to vote.
You have until the 26th of February to vote. The winner will be announced on the 28th.
The Muses:
- "Hellhounds in the Museum"
- "Any Quote by Fernando Pessoa"
- "To Create, First Control; To Control, First Destroy"
- "Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo"
- "The Dogcatchers of Vatican City Versus the Fishermen of Switzerland"
- "How Does One Dissect an Imaginary Creature?"
- "Musing on the 7th Muse When There’s No Proof of the 5th nor 6th"
- "The Stones of Merlin"
- "When You Lose the Tools You Use to Find Your Way"
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoyed Tom’s flippant and obtuse muse usage. We want a connection, right? And it did seem to me that the last panel - whether he was conscious of it or not - pulled it together in a way. In some posts me not pulling the muse in Jeff’s work doesn’t mean it was not there. I realized everyone has a thought process that spirals in + me not being able to untie a knot doesn't mean it can’t be. These days I tend to turn everything into a Tarkovsky movie. Jumping into the story - I’m presuming as the central part of a longer body - Jeff had his story outlined, set, and left a window open for the muses to breeze in and out, sometimes without much consequence to the overall story. Not that they have or need to. The telling of the story had me going back and seeing if I remembered details correctly. In word, I made myself feel gaslighted in the process of reading Jeff’s work. I did enjoy the story.
Bravo, guys, for finishing.
Yes, I think Pessoa’s book The Book of Disquiet should be mandatory 6th grade reading.
I always enjoy Helen’s written comments - I missed them here.
Having said too much already, and feeling my usual conversation remorse coming upon me - I feel With Tom + my entries Dom has passed its classic phase and is now in its Baroque phase — will there be another Renaissance?
And having said that Tom got my gimmick this year - diverse, auto writing for random muses. As I alluded to in the first part of the #1. The need to defend myself for not completing the DOM task not very strong, but I’d like you guys to know I acquired an unexpected deadline - that’s all I got. As you know, a paid deadline unfortunately trumps DOM - I may get back to the muses + finish them with one finial entry, just to appease my on-going guilt. I know Dom comes every year at the same time I do try to cancel out and leave time - what I can.
I give you both half a vote. Since this past year has been one of making up the rules or at least twisting the shit out of them. Leaving it up to you guys to break the vote - no shame in a draw.
That’s all I got.
I'll be honest. I don't really know who to vote for. Neither JAHH's nor Half-Moose's entries are "a short story that will encompass all of the posted Muses this month," so any judgement by that metric is out.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy both entries, but lament that JAHH didn't finish hers. Some of the lip-service paid to both creating to and selecting Muses rubs me the wrong way, but I get it. There's no hard, fast rule of HOW one must use a Muse, so no harm, no foul.
But...
But...
I guess my conundrum is that I don't know HOW to vote between JAHH and Half-Moose. There's no singular metric that would make a comparison seem fair. Hell, there's no combined or amalgamated metric that would make a comparison seem fair.
So...
Hmm...
I guess I'm just going to vote based on the most chapters done.
So...
I mean...
I'm going with "tom half moose."
Jeff - I truly, honestly apologize for disappointing you. -J
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