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Note: I think this is the longest free-write I have ever managed without chemical assistance. You may notice a forced quality to it; that comes from having to actively suppress the urge to fidget, to look up, to think about something else.

They were able to engineer a complete reversal -- what you mean you hadn't heard about the new plans for a three ring circus on the courthouse lawn? John's pet elks are going to be the central attraction. We'll fricassee them with olive oil and insects. Tomorrow is opening day -- lots of potentates will be there, we're hoping to impress them -- fund raising for the new civic center we've been planning all these years, minus the reflecting pond. The park will be retrofitted with authentic reproductions of the horses on the carousel at Bad Ems. Sonja will take tickets, an amazing show! This is going to be bigger than the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows -- instead of a sphere we will have a gigantic octohedron -- or something fittingly symbolic. John Majors was forced out of office by the Greens and needs a job; perhaps we can hire him as a barker, he's short so he'll need a stool to stand on but that shouldn't be a problem.