RE: SeaWyrm's Talon Exercises
11-03-2012, 02:41 AM
"So I made this finger exercise thread, but all I got were stupid self-referential sentences."
"So, what did you do?"
"The only thing I could do: Write stupid self-referential FEs."
"Lame."
"Yeah, I know!"
"Is this one of them right now?"
"Actually, no. This FE never refers to itself at all."
"Oh."
"It does refer to the third FE, though, which is about angry cats."
"Angry cats?"
"Yeah, they claw a bunch of stuff up. There's an ALL YOUR BASE reference. Standard stuff."
"I see. Sounds interesting."
"Well, it's okay."
"Does it refer to itself?"
"Only implicitly. Say, would you look at the time?"
"Gosh, 11:01 already?"
"Yeah, and counting down. We don't have much longer to live, do we?"
"I never thought about it that way. Wow. Our lives are already 30% over and we still don't even have names or descriptions!"
"Actually, I think I'm supposed to represent the author or something? So maybe I'm okay."
"But you aren't actually him. He hasn't written his third FE yet. And the real this FE is totally self-referential."
"And more than a bit stupid, yeah. Nevertheless, the concept of me is that I'm him. So maybe I'll stick around after the 15 minutes are up."
"But what about me? I'm only a faceless voice for you to debate with. What happens to me?"
"Dunno, but it's not like he never talks to himself outside this FE. Anyway, neither of us possesses actual sapience, right?"
"I know, we're just puppets. But still. How long is it now?"
"5:28. Eegh."
"I think he has to stop writing every time he checks the time to turn his phone's display back on. Maybe we should stop asking about it."
"Maybe... But I can't look away! 4:12, 4:11..."
"Do you think it will hurt?"
"I can't possibly answer that question. 3:39..."
"We're getting a bit close to the end of the page, I think. Usually his FEs end by the halfway point of the second page. He only has one sheet of paper..."
"Yeah, but this one's all dialogue. And I think all this talk about the timer is making him subconsciously write faster. But we're getting closer to the end, too. Less than two minutes."
"Daisy, daisy..."
"Shuddup."
"Well, what else is there to do but make movie references?"
And then the author decided to describe a happy ending for his characters. It went like this: The two nameless entities in this dialogue, instead of vanishing into oblivion as they had assumed,
---15 Mins---
"So, what did you do?"
"The only thing I could do: Write stupid self-referential FEs."
"Lame."
"Yeah, I know!"
"Is this one of them right now?"
"Actually, no. This FE never refers to itself at all."
"Oh."
"It does refer to the third FE, though, which is about angry cats."
"Angry cats?"
"Yeah, they claw a bunch of stuff up. There's an ALL YOUR BASE reference. Standard stuff."
"I see. Sounds interesting."
"Well, it's okay."
"Does it refer to itself?"
"Only implicitly. Say, would you look at the time?"
"Gosh, 11:01 already?"
"Yeah, and counting down. We don't have much longer to live, do we?"
"I never thought about it that way. Wow. Our lives are already 30% over and we still don't even have names or descriptions!"
"Actually, I think I'm supposed to represent the author or something? So maybe I'm okay."
"But you aren't actually him. He hasn't written his third FE yet. And the real this FE is totally self-referential."
"And more than a bit stupid, yeah. Nevertheless, the concept of me is that I'm him. So maybe I'll stick around after the 15 minutes are up."
"But what about me? I'm only a faceless voice for you to debate with. What happens to me?"
"Dunno, but it's not like he never talks to himself outside this FE. Anyway, neither of us possesses actual sapience, right?"
"I know, we're just puppets. But still. How long is it now?"
"5:28. Eegh."
"I think he has to stop writing every time he checks the time to turn his phone's display back on. Maybe we should stop asking about it."
"Maybe... But I can't look away! 4:12, 4:11..."
"Do you think it will hurt?"
"I can't possibly answer that question. 3:39..."
"We're getting a bit close to the end of the page, I think. Usually his FEs end by the halfway point of the second page. He only has one sheet of paper..."
"Yeah, but this one's all dialogue. And I think all this talk about the timer is making him subconsciously write faster. But we're getting closer to the end, too. Less than two minutes."
"Daisy, daisy..."
"Shuddup."
"Well, what else is there to do but make movie references?"
And then the author decided to describe a happy ending for his characters. It went like this: The two nameless entities in this dialogue, instead of vanishing into oblivion as they had assumed,
---15 Mins---